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Diane Kurys
Diane Kurys (; born 3 December 1948) is a French director, producer, filmmaker and actress. Several of her films as director are semi-autobiographical. Personal life Kurys was born in Lyon, Rhône, France, the younger of two daughters. She is a daughter of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants, Lena and Michel. Diane Kurys and her older sister spent their early years in Lyon. Like many of her film's characters, she had a difficult relationship with her parents, and her traumatic childhood became a subject in many of her films. Their parents met and got married at Camp de Rivesaltes in 1942, separating in 1954. Their divorce deeply marked and affected Diane, and would become a real source of inspiration for several of her films; Kurys stated that she made films about them because she “wanted to see them back together again.” It was after this event that her mom decided to move with her two daughters to Paris, where she ran a woman’s fashion boutique, while her dad stayed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon proper had a population of 522,969 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,280,845 that same year, the second most populated in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,411,571 in 2019. Lyon is the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and seat of the Departmental Council of Rhône (whose jurisdiction, however, no longer extends over the Metropolis of Lyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocktail Molotov
''Cocktail Molotov'' is a 1980 French drama film written and directed by Diane Kurys. It is her second feature after ''Peppermint Soda''. A female coming of age story set during the spring and summer of 1968, the film is not a sequel but can be considered "companion piece" to its predecessor. It has been called a female take on the male-dominated road movie genre. Plot Seventeen-year-old middle-class Anne (Elise Caron), runs away with her working-class boyfriend Frederic (Philippe Lebas) and his friend Bruno (Francois Cluzet) after a violent fight with her mother. Anne convinces the others to drive to Venice, where she plans to take a ship to Israel in order to join a kibbutz. On the road, Anne grapples with experiences of love, sex, abortion, and "existential wandering". Upon reaching Venice, they learn of the social uprising back in Paris. With their money running out and their car stolen, they hitchhike back to find they have missed the excitement. Reception ''Cocktail Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man In Love (1987 Film)
''A Man in Love'' (french: Un homme amoureux, it, Un uomo innamorato) is a 1987 French-Italian drama film directed by Diane Kurys. Her first English language film, it was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Jane Steiner (Greta Scacchi) is an English-born actress considering giving up on her unfulfilling career as an actress to become a writer. She lives in France with her French mother Julia and English father Harry. By chance, during an excursion to Rome with her journalist father, she is offered a small part in an American film set in the 1950s about Cesare Pavese as Gabriella, Pavese's love interest. The lead role is played by Steve Elliot (Peter Coyote), a charming American who is passionate about the writer he is playing, although his work is unknown in the United States. He is married to Susan (Jamie Lee Curtis), who is at home in New York City but falls in love with his co-star Jane on the set. After meeting Steve, Jane abandons her relationship with her Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Lindon
Vincent Lindon (born 15 July 1959) is a French actor and filmmaker. For his role in the film '' The Measure of a Man'' (2015), Lindon won Best Actor at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor at the 41st César Awards and the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) at the 46th International Film Festival of India. Lindon was selected as the president of the jury for the main competition section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Early life and education Vincent Lindon is the son of Laurent Lindon, who was director of the company Audioline. He is the grandson of Raymond Lindon, who served as the magistrate and mayor of Étretat between 1929 and 1959, as well as the nephew of , director of Les Éditions de Minuit. He is also the great-grandson of Fernande Citroën, the older sister of André Citroën and wife of Alfred Lindon (born Abner Lindenbaum), a Jewish jeweler and modern art collector originally from Krakow, Poland. Through his mother, Alix Dufaure, a journalist for '' Marie C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress, producer, children's author, and activist. She came to prominence with her portrayal of Lt. Barbara Duran on the ABC sitcom '' Operation Petticoat'' (1977–78). In 1978, she made her feature film debut playing Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's slasher film ''Halloween'', which established her as a scream queen and led to a string of parts in horror films such as '' The Fog'', '' Prom Night'', ''Terror Train'' (all 1980) and ''Roadgames'' (1981). She reprised the role of Laurie in the sequels '' Halloween II'' (1981), '' Halloween H20: 20 Years Later'' (1998), '' Halloween: Resurrection'' (2002), ''Halloween'' (2018), ''Halloween Kills'' (2021), and '' Halloween Ends'' (2022). Curtis's film work spans many genres, including the cult comedies ''Trading Places'' (1983)—for which she won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress—and ''A Fish Called Wanda'' (1988), for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Cardinale
Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (; born 15 April 1938) is an Italian actress. She has starred in some of the most iconic European films of the 1960s and 1970s, acting in Italian, French, and English. Born and raised in La Goulette, a neighbourhood of Tunis, Cardinale won the "Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia" competition in 1957, the prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts, due above all to the involvement of Franco Cristaldi, who acted as her mentor for a number of years and later married her. After making her debut in a minor role with the Egyptian star Omar Sharif in ''Goha'' (1958), Cardinale became one of the best-known actresses in Italy with roles in films such as ''Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960), ''Girl with a Suitcase'' (1961), ''Cartouche (film), Cartouche'' (1962), ''The Leopard (1963 film), The Leopard'' (1963), and Federico Fellini, Fellini's ''8½'' (1963). From 1963, Cardinale appeared in ''The Pink Panther (1963 film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greta Scacchi
Greta Scacchi, OMRI (; born 18 February 1960) is an Italian-Australian actress. She holds dual Italian and Australian citizenship. She is best known for her roles in the films '' White Mischief'' (1987), '' Presumed Innocent'' (1990), '' The Player'' (1992), '' Emma'' (1996), and '' Looking for Alibrandi'' (2000). Her first leading role, in ''Heat and Dust'' (1983), earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer to Film. For her portrayal of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia in the television film, '' Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny'' (1996), she won a Primetime Emmy Award and earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2006, Scacchi received a second Emmy nomination for her role in the television film ''Broken Trail'', and earned her first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Early life Scacchi was born on 18 February 1960 in Milan, Italy, the daughter of Luca Scacchi, an Italian art dealer and painter, and Pamela Risbey, an English dancer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, author and narrator of films, theatre, television, and audiobooks. He worked on films such as '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), '' Cross Creek'' (1983), '' Jagged Edge'' (1985), '' Bitter Moon'' (1992), ''Kika'' (1993), '' Patch Adams (film), Patch Adams'' (1998), ''Erin Brockovich'' (2000), ''A Walk to Remember'' (2002), and '' Femme Fatale'' (2002). Coyote's voice work includes his narration for the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad Retina Display campaign. He narrated the PBS series '' The Pacific Century'' (1992), winning an Emmy, and eleven documentaries directed or produced by Ken Burns: ''The West'' (1996), '' The National Parks: America's Best Idea'' (2009), ''Prohibition'' (2011), '' The Dust Bowl'' (2012), '' The Roosevelts: An Intimate History'' (2014), ''The Vietnam War'' (2017), ''The Mayo Clinic: Faith--Hope--Science'' (2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Jean-Pierre Bacri (24 May 1951 – 18 January 2021) was a French actor and screenwriter. He frequently worked in collaboration with Agnès Jaoui. Life and career One of Bacri's earliest film appearances was '' Subway''. He co-wrote with Jaoui ''Smoking/No Smoking'', and co-wrote and starred in ''Un air de famille'', ''On connaît la chanson'', for which he won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1998, ''The Taste of Others'' and '' Look at Me''. Together, he and Jaoui have won the César Award for Best Writing four times, the Best Screenplay Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and the European Film Awards, and the René Clair Award in 2001. He died of cancer in 2021 at the age of 69. Filmography As screenwriter * 1977: '' Tout simplement'' * 1978: '' Le Timbre'' * 1979: '' Le Doux visage de l'amour'' (Prix de la fondation de la vocation) * 1992: '' Cuisine et dépendances'' * 1992: '' Smoking / No Smoking'' * 1996: ''Un air de famille'' * 1997: ''On co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Marchand
Guy Marchand (born 22 May 1937) is a French actor, musician and singer. He is best known for his role as fictional private detective Nestor Burma. Selected filmography * 1962: '' The Longest Day'' as an extra (Uncredited) * 1975: '' Cousin Cousine'', directed by Jean-Charles Tacchella: ''Pascal'' * 1978: '' Holiday Hotel'', directed by Michel Lang: ''Hubert Delambre'' * 1979: '' Le Maître-nageur'', directed by Jean-Louis Trintignant: ''Marcel Potier'' * 1980: '' Loulou'', directed by Maurice Pialat: ''André'' * 1981: ''Garde à Vue'', directed by Claude Miller: ''Inspecteur Marcel Belmont'' * 1981: ''Coup de Torchon'', directed by Bertrand Tavernier: ''Marcel Chavasson'' * 1982: ''Les Sous-doués en vacances'', directed by Claude Zidi: ''Paul Memphis'' * 1983: '' Deadly Circuit'', directed by Claude Miller: ''The pale man'' * 1983: '' Entre Nous'', directed by Diane Kurys: ''Michel'' * 1983: ' (TV miniseries), directed by Christian-Jaque: ''Ferdinand de Lesseps'' * 1984: ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miou-Miou
Sylvette Herry (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Miou-Miou (), is a French actress. A ten-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Actress for the 1979 film ''Memoirs of a French Whore''. Her other films include ''This Sweet Sickness'' (1977), '' Entre Nous'' (1983), ''May Fools'' (1990), '' Germinal'' (1993), ''Dry Cleaning'' (1997) and ''Arrêtez-moi'' (2013). In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Michel Gondry, Bertrand Blier, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey and Louis Malle. Early life Miou-Miou was born Sylvette Herry in Paris. Her stage name, Miou-Miou (a reference to the sound of a cat), was given to her by Coluche. She was raised in Paris by her mother, a greengrocer. Career After studying acting Miou-Miou worked in improvisational theater with Coluche and Patrick Dewaere, joining with them to help found the new comedy theatre Café de la Gare. She made her film de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (; born 16 March 1953) is a French actress. Described as "one of the best actresses in the world", she is known for her portrayals of cold and disdainful characters devoid of morality. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two César Awards, five Lumières Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Cannes Film Festival honors, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award nomination; in 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked her second on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Huppert's first César nomination was for the 1975 film '' Aloïse''. In 1978, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for ''The Lacemaker''. She went on to win two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival, for ''Violette Nozière'' (1978) and '' The Piano Teacher'' (2001), as well as two Volpi Cups for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, for '' Story of Women'' (1988) and ''La Cérémonie''. Her other films in France include '' Loulou'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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