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Christian Gasc
Christian Gasc (8 August 1945 – 11 January 2022) was a French costumer for film, theatre, and opera. He was a four-time winner of the César Award for Best Costume Design, one-time winner of the , and was once nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Costume Design. Biography Gasc was born in Dunes to a mechanic father and wife a seamstress mother. He discovered cinema in Valence at the age of eight and moved to Paris at nineteen. There, he met Liliane de Kermadec who proposed that he create costumes for her film, '' Aloïse''. He won three consecutive César Awards for the films ''Madame Butterfly'', ''Ridicule'', and '' On Guard''. He was close with several directors who helped his career greatly, such as Pierre Klossowski, Benoît Jacquot, and , as well as screenwriters such as Roland Barthes, Marguerite Duras, and Hervé Guibert. In 2015, an exhibition on his costumes for the film ''Farewell, My Queen'' was displayed at the . Gasc was found dead in his Parisian apar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunes, Tarn-et-Garonne
Dunes (; oc, Dunas) is a Communes of France, commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region in southern France. Geography The river Auroue forms all of the commune's western border. See also *Communes of the Tarn-et-Garonne department References Communes of Tarn-et-Garonne {{TarnGaronne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Early life and education Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. They both had previous marriages. Marguerite had two older brothers: Pierre, the elder, and Paul. Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921. Between 1922 and 1924, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loulou (film)
''Loulou'' is a 1980 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu. For ''Loulou'', Pialat was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Plot summary In a disco with her husband André, a cultured man who owns a small advertising agency in which she works, Nelly meets Loulou, who is just out of jail and drunk. She spends the night with him in a hotel. The next day, André orders her out of his spacious apartment, so she moves into a hotel room with Loulou, who she supports as he does not believe in work. When she becomes pregnant, she rents a small apartment for them which Loulou fills with his criminal friends, who one night take her on a burglary. Her well-off brother tries to get her to see sense, but she just wants Loulou and their forthcoming child. When Loulou and his gang take her to Sunday lunch with his mother, there is a frightening confrontation with his psychotic brother-in-law who starts f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courage Fuyons
''Courage fuyons'' is a French romantic comedy film directed by Yves Robert. Plot Martin Belhomme is a coward since his birth, also home cowardice is passed from generation to generation. After a childhood spent in the tumult of the Occupation, he "is married" with Mathilda who will decide everything : they will have two children and he will become a pharmacist, even if he vowed a passion for music. But after this monotonous life, occurs in May 68, and cowardice will paradoxically lead him into a crazy adventure, far from home, with Eva, beautiful blonde singer in a cabaret of Amsterdam. Therefore, he will make every effort to seduce the beautiful, and pass for an adventurer to her eyes. Cast * Jean Rochefort as Martin Belhomme / Adrien Belhomme * Catherine Deneuve as Eva * Dominique Lavanant as Mathilda * Philippe Leroy as Eric Sylvain de Chalamond * Robert Webber as Charley * Michel Aumont as Franckie * Michel Beaune as Noël * Christophe Bourseiller as Christophe * Eliane B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brontë Sisters
''The Brontë Sisters'' (French: Les Sœurs Brontë) is a 1979 French drama film directed by André Téchiné and written by Téchiné with the collaboration of Pascal Bonitzer and Jean Gruault. The film stars Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier and Isabelle Huppert as the Brontë sisters. The cinematography was by Bruno Nuytten. It was a project that Téchiné wanted to make since 1972, but only after the favourable reception of '' Souvenirs d'en France'' (1975) and ''Barocco'' (1976), he was able to find the necessary financing. Produced by Gaumont, the film's originally running time was cut from three to less than two hours upon its release at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Isabelle Adjani as Emily, Marie-France Pisier as Charlotte and Isabelle Huppert as Anne. Pascal Greggory plays their brother Branwell Brontë. The plot centres on the sisters' sombre relationship with Branwell. Set in a careful recreation of the period, the film follows the bleak liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To The Beloved
''Return to the Beloved'' (french: Retour à la bien-aimée) is a 1979 French drama film directed by Jean-François Adam. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc and Bruno Ganz, it tells the story of a man who tries to win back his ex-wife by framing her new husband for murder. Plot Julien, a well-known concert pianist until his divorce, has become obsessed with regaining his ex-wife Jeanne and their little son Thomas. Living in his family home outside Paris that he left to her, she has married a German doctor named Stephan and broken off all contact with him. He blackmails a private detective named Keller to murder the husband but, as the man approaches the house at night, Julien instead shoots him dead with Stephan's revolver that he had stolen earlier. He had also scattered other clues to incriminate the doctor. The body is found by young Thomas, upon which Jeanne sends an urgent message to Julien asking him to come and support her with their traumatised child. Already dism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Green Room (film)
''The Green Room'' (french: La Chambre verte) is a 1978 French historical drama film directed by François Truffaut, based on the 1895 short story " The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James, in which a man becomes obsessed with the dead people in his life and builds a memorial to them. It is also based on two other works by James: the 1903 novella '' The Beast in the Jungle'' and the 1896 short story " The Way It Came". It was Truffaut's seventeenth feature film as a director and the third and last of his own films in which he acted in a leading role. It stars Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté and Patrick Maléon. Truffaut spent several years working on the film's script and felt a special connection to the theme of honouring and remembering the dead. In the film, he included portraits of people from his own life at the main character's "Altar of the Dead". ''The Green Room'' was one of Truffaut's most praised films, and also one of his least successful financially. Plot The a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Rendez-vous D'Anna
''Les Rendez-vous d'Anna'' (known in English as ''The Meetings of Anna'' and ''Meetings with Anna'') is a 1978 drama film written and directed by Chantal Akerman. Plot Anne Silver, a Belgian filmmaker, is travelling through West Germany, Belgium, and France to promote her new film. Along the way, she meets with strangers, friends, former lovers, and family members, all the while traversing an isolating and increasingly homogeneous Western Europe. Among the people she meets is her own mother, to whom she talks about falling in love with a woman who she only talks to over the phone now. At the end, she is back in her apartment, listening to messages on her answering machine, alone as ever. The calls are from various friends and/or lovers, who express frustration at her unavailability, and also a manager who wants to make sure she shows up for all of her promotional appearances. The last message is from her female lover, who is wondering where she is. Anne does not call anyone back. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barocco
''Barocco'' is a 1976 French romantic thriller film, directed by André Téchiné. The film stars Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu and Marie-France Pisier. Identity, redemption and resurrection are the themes of the film. The plot follows a young woman who convinces her boxer boyfriend to accept a bribe to tell a lie that discredits a local politician. When the boyfriend is murdered, she is racked with guilt until she meets the killer and plans to remake him into the image of her slain lover. The film won three César Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Cinematography and Best Music. The film had a total of 678,734 admissions in France. Plot In a French speaking port in Northern Europe, Laure, an aimless young woman, goes to see her boyfriend, Samson, a washed up boxer. While posing for photographs, that are going to illustrate an interview for a newspaper, Samson is offered to take a huge amount of money if he lies, confessing in the interview to have a homosexual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surreal Estate
''Surreal Estate'' (french: Sérail) is a 1976 French mystery film directed by Argentine filmmaker Eduardo de Gregorio, who is best known for his screenwriting work with Jacques Rivette. Plot ''Surreal Estate'' tells the story of Eric Sange (Corin Redgrave), an English novelist who, seeking to buy a house in France as an investment, discovers a run-down mansion inhabited by three strange women: Ariane (Rivette regular Bulle Ogier), Agathe (Marie-France Pisier), and their ostensible housekeeper, Céleste (Leslie Caron). Together, these women draw Eric into a gothic mystery that his own novelistic experience tells him is hackneyed, but which he nonetheless finds irresistible.Khan, Imra"Surreal Estate: Exploring the Haunted Grounds of Sérail" ''PopMatters'', 20 January 2015. Retrieved on 20 November 2016. Cast * Bulle Ogier as Ariane * Marie-France Pisier as Agathe * Corin Redgrave as Eric Sange * Leslie Caron as Céleste * Marylin Jones as the waitress * Pierre Baudry as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumière (film)
''Lumière'' ( en, link=no, Light) is a French drama film written and directed by Jeanne Moreau. The semi-autobiographical film is about the friendship between four actresses. It is credited as being one of the first films to focus on female friendship. Plot Sarah is an actress who is nearing 40. She invites Laura, her best friend of the past sixteen years, along with two other women, Caroline and Julienne, to a vacation retreat in Provence. Each woman is at a critical point in her life; Sarah has broken up with her longtime partner, while Laura is pregnant but her husband is carrying on an affair with another woman. Caroline is in an unhappy relationship, and Julienne is being pursued by an American actor. Cast Reception ''Lumière'' received critical acclaim. Critic Roger Ebert wrote positively of the film, commenting "as the strands of oreau'sstory become clear and we begin to know the characters, the movie grows into a simple and strong emotional statement." In a retros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Provincial
''French Provincial'' (french: Souvenirs d’en France) is a 1975 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Jeanne Moreau, Michel Auclair and Marie-France Pisier. The film presents an overview of French life and politics though the changes within one family in southwestern France from the 1930s through the 1970s. Plot At the beginning of the 20th century, Pédret, a Spanish immigrant, arrives in the southwest French country side. He becomes a blacksmith and marries Augustine, the daughter of the village baker. By 1936 Pédret’s forge has become a foundry where his three sons are the managers. Years later when Augustine, now a bourgeois matriarch, realizes that her son Hector is having an affair with Berthe, a lowly seamstress, she tries to ruin Berthe’s business and drive her out of town even if it means bribing her. But old Pédret, who knows that his sons have their spirits broken, can see that Berthe has the blunt good sense they lack, and he arranges for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
