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Boudu
''Boudu'' is a 2005 French comedy film directed by Gérard Jugnot. It is a remake of Jean Renoir's 1932 film, ''Boudu Saved from Drowning''. Cast * Gérard Depardieu - Boudu * Catherine Frot - Yseult * Gérard Jugnot - Christian * Constance Dollé - Coralie * Bonnafet Tarbouriech - Perez * Hubert Saint-Macary - Bob * Jean-Paul Rouve - Hubert * Serge Riaboukine - Géronimo * Dominique Ratonnat - Le médecin * Jean-Pierre Foucault Jean-Pierre Foucault (; born 23 November 1947 in Marseille) is a French television and radio host. He was born in Marseille, his mother was Jewish. He was the host of '' Qui Veut Gagner des Millions ?'', the French version of ''Who Wants to Be a ... - Himself References External links * 2005 comedy films 2005 films French comedy films Remakes of French films French films based on plays Films directed by Gérard Jugnot Films about poverty in France 2000s French films {{2000s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boudu Saved From Drowning
''Boudu Saved from Drowning'' (french: Boudu sauvé des eaux, "Boudu saved from the waters") is a 1932 French social satire comedy of manners film directed by Jean Renoir. Renoir wrote the film's screenplay, from the 1919 play by René Fauchois. The film stars Michel Simon as Boudu. Pauline Kael called it, "not only a lovely fable about a bourgeois attempt to reform an early hippie... but a photographic record of an earlier France." Synopsis Bourgeois Parisian and Latin Quarter bookseller Edouard Lestingois rescues Boudu, a tramp, from a suicidal plunge into the River Seine from the Pont des Arts. Boudu is brought into Lestingois's household. The family adopts the man and dedicates itself to reforming him into a proper, middle-class person. Boudu shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound manners of his hosts, seducing the housemaid and raping Madame Lestingois. Gradually Boudu is tamed, shaved and given a haircut, and put in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Fauchois
René Fauchois (31 August 1882 – 10 February 1962) was a French dramatist, librettist and actor. Stagestruck from his youth, he moved from his native Rouen to Paris as a teenager to pursue a stage career. He had early success both as an actor and as a playwright. Among those with whom he collaborated as his career flourished were Sarah Bernhardt and Sacha Guitry. His career lasted for more than sixty years, and his output was prolific. As a librettist Fauchois is probably best known for writing the "''poème lyrique''" for Fauré's ''Pénélope'' (1913). His best-known play is ''Prenez garde à la peinture'' (1932), a comedy of bourgeois avarice, adapted for US and British stage and screen as ''The Late Christopher Bean''. His 1919 comedy ''Boudu sauvé des eaux'' has been filmed in both French and English. Life and career Fauchois was born in Rouen to a family of modest means. He was educated at the state schools of the city, the école maternelle, école communale and école ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Jugnot
Gérard Jugnot (; born 4 May 1951) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. Jugnot was one of the founders of the comedy ''troupe'' Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, and Michel Blanc. Then Josiane Balasko and Marie-Anne Chazel joined them. The group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema and was extremely successful in films such as ''Les Bronzés'' (1978), ''Les Bronzés font du ski'' (1979) and ''Le Père Noël est une ordure'' (1982). Jugnot gained international fame for his lead role in ''Les Choristes'' in which he played Clément Mathieu. The last movie he directed was '' C'est beau la vie quand on y pense'' (2017). Jugnot is the father of comedian Arthur Jugnot, born in 1980 to Jugnot and wardrobe designer Cécile Magnan. He was made ''Chevalier'' (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2004. Life and career Jugnot met Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent film, silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films ''La Grande Illusion'' (1937) and ''The Rules of the Game'' (1939) are often cited by critics as among the List of films considered the best, greatest films ever made. He was ranked by the British Film Institute, BFI's ''Sight & Sound'' poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time. Among numerous honours accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Awards, Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry. Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the uncle of the cinematographer Claude Renoir. He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an ''auteur''. Early life and early career Renoir was born in the Montmartre district of Paris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Lopes-Curval
Philippe Jean Lopes-Curval (9 June 1951 – 13 February 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Bayeux on 9 June 1951, Lopes-Curval directed a series of short films before directing his first feature film, ''Trop tard Balthazar'', in 1986. Released on Canal+, the film was noticed by Jean-Claude Fleury, who introduced him to Gérard Jugnot. This began a longtime collaboration with Jugnot, having partnered for the films ', '' Fallait pas !...'', ''Monsieur Batignole'', ''Boudu'', and '. He also wrote the screenplay for the Christophe Barratier film '' The Chorus''. In 2017, Lopes-Curval co-signed the booklet for the musical festival at the Folies Bergère. In addition to his film career, he worked on television as well, notably writing the screenplay for ''Maintenant ou jamais'', directed by . In 2011, he wrote a comic book, ''Les Grobec''. Lopes-Curval was the father of fellow film director Julie Lopes-Curval Julie Lopes-Curval is a French film dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Saint-Macary
Hubert Saint-Macary (born 18 May 1949) is a French actor. He is the brother of Xavier Saint-Macary. Selected filmography * ''Un étrange voyage'' (1981) - L'examinateur * ''Stella'' (1983) - Lomy * ''Debout les crabes, la mer monte!'' (1983) - Le timide * ''Dangerous Moves'' (1984) - Foldes * ''Ote-toi de mon soleil'' (1984) - Hubert * ''La femme secrète'' (1986) - Eric * ' (1986) - Chemiker * ''May Fools'' (1990) - Paul * ''Mr. and Mrs. Bridge'' (1990) - Copyist in the Louvre * '' Cold Moon'' (1991) - Un consommateur au bistrot * '' Indochine'' (1992) - Raymond * ''L'instinct de l'ange'' (1993) - Capitaine Georges * ''Montparnasse-Pondichéry'' (1994) * ''Casque bleu'' (1994) - Gianni * ''Les Milles'' (1995) - Locomotive mechanic * ''Le journal du séducteur'' (1996) - Hubert, the Psychiatrist * ''The Proprietor'' (1996) - Paris - Taxi Driver * ''Fallait pas!...'' (1996) * ''Genealogies of a Crime'' (1997) - Verret * ''Lucie Aubrac'' (1997) - Dr. Dugoujon * ''Disparus'' (1998) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Riaboukine
Serge Riaboukine (born 29 December 1957) is a French actor. Theatre Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Riaboukine, Serge 1957 births Living people French male film actors French male television actors French people of Russian descent 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors People from Givors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Paul Rouve
Jean-Paul Rouve (born 26 January 1967) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He is a member of the troupe "Les Robins des Bois". He has appeared in more than thirty film and television productions since 1993. Personal life He lived several years with the novelist Bénédicte Martin; the couple had a child. He's graduated from the Florent school in Paris, where he studied theater in the class of Francis Huster with Gregory Herpe, Eric Ruf, Jeanne Balibar Jeanne Balibar (born 13 April 1968) is a French actress and singer. Life and career Balibar was born in Paris, the daughter of Marxist philosopher Étienne Balibar and physicist Françoise Balibar. She started her career as a student in th ..., Edouard Baer, Valerie Bonneton, etc. Filmography Filmmaker Actor References External links * 1967 births Living people French male film actors French male television actors People from Dunkirk French film directors French male sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnafet Tarbouriech
Bonnafet Tarbouriech (born 21 April 1952) is a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1980. Filmography References External links * 1952 births Living people French male film actors People from Nîmes {{France-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Dollé
Constance Dollé (born 1974) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than forty films since 1999. In 2019, she performed in a production of the one woman play '' Girls & Boys'' by Dennis Kelly at the Theatre du Petit Saint-Martin in Paris, receiving a Molière Award The Molière Award recognises achievement in live French theatre and is the national theatre award of France. The awards are presented and decided by the ''Association professionnelle et artistique du théâtre'' (APAT) and supported by the Min ... nomination for her performance. Selected filmography References External links * 1974 births Living people French film actresses Place of birth missing (living people) {{France-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Frot
Catherine Frot (; born 1 May 1956) is a French actress. A 10-time César Award nominee, she won the awards for Best Actress for '' Marguerite'' (2015) and Best Supporting Actress for ''Family Resemblances'' (1996). Her other films include ''Le Dîner de Cons'' (1998), ''La Dilettante'' (1999), and ''Haute Cuisine'' (2012). Early life Frot was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher. Her younger sister, Dominique, is also an actress. Catherine demonstrated comic talent at an early age, and enrolled in the Versailles conservatory when she was 14, and was still in school. In 1974, she began her education at the school, and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory. Career In 1975, Frot appeared at the Festival d'Avignon with the Compagnie du Chapeau Rouge (Red Hat Company), which she founded with the help of others. From then on, Catherine put all her energy into theatre performances in roles such as the ''Présidente de Tourve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ (, , ; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, filmmaker, businessman and vineyard owner since 1989 who is one of the most prolific thespians in film history having completed over 250 films since 1967 almost exclusively as a lead. Depardieu has worked with over 150 film directors whose most notable collaborations include Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Maurice Pialat, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Ridley Scott and Bernardo Bertolucci. He is the second highest grossing actor in the history of French Cinema behind Louis de Funès. As of January 2022, his body of work also include countless television productions, 18 theatre plays, 16 records and 9 books. He is mostly known as a character actor and for having portrayed numerous leading historical and fictitious figures of the Western world including Georges Danton, Joseph Stalin, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean Valjean, Edmond Dantès, Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
