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Caroline Proust
Caroline Proust (born 18 November 1967) is a French classically trained actress best known to international audiences for her role as Captain Laure Berthaud in the French TV series '' Spiral''. She has also appeared in the TV series ''The Tunnel'' as well as theatre work including the Tracy Letts play ''August: Osage County'' and ''Game of Love and Chance''. Early life and career She was born on 18 November 1967 in the commune (or town) of Le Vigan in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon, in the department of Gard. She decided to be an actor when she was 17. Proust initially worked in theatre. She has described herself as a child of Edward Bond, and she cites the directors Patrice Chéreau, Peter Brook, Giorgio Strehler and Deborah Warner among her inspirations. Theatre Filmography TV Proust's main TV work has been the series '' Spiral''. Personal life She was married to fellow actor Clovis Cornillac from 1994 until 2010. Their twins, Alice and Lily, were born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Vigan, Gard
Le Vigan (; oc, Lo Vigan) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Geography Le Vigan is located at the south of the Massif Central and near the Mont Aigoual, in the Arre valley. The town is on the southern edge of the Cévennes National Park and is the most populous town within the park. Climate Le Vigan has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification ''Csa''). The average annual temperature in Le Vigan is . The average annual rainfall is with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Le Vigan was on 28 June 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 16 January 1985. History On a river at the southern edge of the Massif Central, Le Vigan is situated on a natural boundaryline. In the 2nd-3rd centuries BCE, it was situated between the territories occupied by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mistress Of The Inn
''The Mistress of the Inn'' ( it, La locandiera ), also translated as ''The Innkeeper Woman'' or ''Mirandolina'' (after the play's main character), is a 1753 three-act comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni about a coquette. The play has been regarded as his masterpiece. Frederick Davies describes it as Goldoni's ''Much Ado About Nothing''. Characters * Mirandolina, the mistress of the inn * Ripafratta, a knight * Marquis of Forlipopoli * Count of Albafiorita * Fabrizio, a servant of the inn * the Baron's servant * Ortensia * Dejanira Plot Act 1 Mirandolina runs an inn in Florence and is constantly courted in marriage by all her clients, particularly the Marchese of Forlipopoli and the Conte of Albafiorita, who represent the two extremes of contemporary Venetian society, since the former is a born aristocrat who has fallen on hard times and sold his title whereas the latter is a young newly-rich merchant who has bought a title and become part of the new nobility. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette, Une Femme Libre
''Colette, une femme libre'' is a 2004 Biographical miniseries which explored the life of Colette. Cast * Marie Trintignant as Colette * Wladimir Yordanoff as Henry Gauthier-Villars * Lambert Wilson as Henry de Jouvenel * Barbara Schulz as Polaire * Rüdiger Vogler as Captain Colette * Jacques Higelin as Georges Wague * Lio as Marguerite Moreno * Catherine Jacob as Missy * Caroline Proust as Lotte * Marie-José Nat as Sido * Chiara Caselli as Georgie Duval * Jean-Michel Fête as Léo * Yves Lambrecht as Achille * Roman Kolinka as Bertrand * Ruta Latinyte as Meg * Sergio Peris-Mencheta as Fred * Carole Richert as Isabelle * Arturas Zukauskas as Agent Choisy * Dominique Besnehard Production This is the last film of Marie Trintignant, who was killed by her then-boyfriend Bertrand Cantat Bertrand Cantat (born 5 March 1964) is a French songwriter, singer, and musician known for being the former frontman of the rock band Noir Désir. In 2003, he was proven guilty without a doubt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Cousin
''Le Cousin'' is a 1997 French film directed by Alain Corneau Alain Corneau (7 August 1943 – 30 August 2010) was a French film director and writer. Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work .... Plot The film deals with the relationship of the police and an informant in the drug scene. Awards and nominations Le Cousin was nominated for 5 César Awards but did not win in any category. References External links * 1997 films 1997 crime films Films about drugs Films directed by Alain Corneau French crime films 1990s French-language films 1990s French films {{1990s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Du Film Policier De Cognac
The Festival du Film policier de Cognac ( en, Cognac Crime Film Festival) was an annual film festival that took place in Cognac, France from 1982 to 2007 (with no festival being held in 1991). at the . The festival focused on the police/crime genre and also featured a short and a television film competition after 1993. Capitalizing on the notoriety of the film festival, an unrelated crime book convention named Polar : Le Festival was inaugurated in 1996. In 2007, the wine syndicate Bureau National Interprofessionel du Cognac announced that it was withdrawing its support of the 25-year-old film event. Without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odéon-Théâtre De L'Europe
The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe ( en, European Music Hall) (formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon ( en, Music Hall)) is one of France's six national theatres. It is located at 2 rue Corneille in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden and the Luxembourg Palace, which houses the Senate. First theatre The original building, the Salle du Faubourg Saint-Germain, was constructed for the Théâtre Français between 1779 and 1782 to a Neoclassical design by Charles De Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre. The site was in the garden of the former Hôtel de Condé. The new theatre was inaugurated by Marie-Antoinette on April 9, 1782. It was there that Beaumarchais' play '' The Marriage of Figaro'' was premiered two years later. On April 27, 1791, during the Revolution, the company split. The players sympathetic to the crown remained in the theatre in the Faubourg Saint-Germain. They were arrested and incarcerated on the night of September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A View From The Bridge
''A View from the Bridge'' is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama with ''A Memory of Two Mondays'' at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The run was unsuccessful, and Miller subsequently revised and extended the play to contain two acts; this version is the one with which audiences are most familiar. The two-act version premiered in the New Watergate theatre club in London's West End under the direction of Peter Brook on October 11, 1956. The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love of, and almost obsession with Catherine, his wife Beatrice's orphaned niece, so he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice's cousin Rodolpho. Miller's interest in writing about the world of the New York docks originated with an unproduced scre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osage County
Osage County is the name of several counties in the United States: * Osage County, Kansas * Osage County, Missouri * Osage County, Oklahoma Osage County is the largest county by area in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Created in 1907 when Oklahoma was admitted as a state, the county is named for and is home to the federally recognized Osage Nation. The county is coextensive with the ... ;It could also refer to: * '' August: Osage County'', a play by Tracy Letts, set in the Oklahoma county ** ''August: Osage County'' (film), the film adaptation of the play {{disambig, geo, uscounty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Du Rond-Point
The Théâtre du Rond-Point is a theatre in Paris, located at 2bis avenue Franklin-D.-Roosevelt, 8th arrondissement. History The theatre began with an 1838 project of architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff for a rotunda in the Champs Elysees. Inaugurated in 1839, this structure was integrated with other Hittorff buildings for the Exposition Universelle (1855) and destroyed the following year. A new replacement panorama, Le Panorama National, was designed by architect Gabriel Davioud at the corner of the Avenue d'Antin (now Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the Champs-Élysées. In December 1893, the rotunda became the Palais de Glace (Ice Palace), one of the most popular attractions of Belle Epoque Paris. In the post-war years, the Theatre du Rond-Point was one of the principal venues—along with the Theatre Marigny and the Theatre de l'Odeon—where the Madeleine Renaud-Jean-Louis Barrault Company introduced the world to many of the plays of Jean Giraudoux, Eugène Ionesc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festen (play)
''Festen'' is a British stage adaptation of the 1998 Danish film of the same name (''The Celebration'' being the film's release title in North America). The adaptation is by English playwright David Eldridge. It was first staged in 2004 by producer Marla Rubin at the Almeida Theatre in London, and has since been staged in many countries around the world. Synopsis As in the original movie, ''Festen'' satirises the hypocrisy of a large and wealthy family by observing the events that unfold at the ancestral home during a reunion held to celebrate the oldest family member's 60th birthday. As the time arises for birthday speeches to be made to the party's subject, one of his sons stands and asks the assembled guests to choose which of two prepared speeches he should read. The guests select one not knowing its contents, and the son declares it the "truth speech". As he begins to talk, it becomes dramatically clear that he is not praising his father but accusing him of having sexuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Marigny
The Théâtre Marigny is a theatre in Paris, situated near the junction of the Champs-Élysées and the Avenue Marigny in the 8th arrondissement. It was originally built to designs of the architect Charles Garnier for the display of a panorama, which opened in 1883. The panorama was converted to the Théâtre Marigny in 1894 by the architect Édouard Niermans and became a home to operetta and other musical theatre. Panorama An earlier theatre on the site, the Salle Lacaze, became known in 1855, as the home of Jacques Offenbach's Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, where he first built his reputation as a theatre composer. In 1864 this became the Théâtre des Folies-Marigny, which was demolished in 1881, giving way to a panorama built by Charles Garnier. In 1885, dioramas on Paris through the ages by Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer (1839–1922), and on Jerusalem on the day of the death of Christ, by Olivier Pichat, were displayed. Theatre In 1894, Édouard Niermans conv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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