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Dominique Zardi
Dominique Zardi (born Emile Jean Cohen-Zardi; 2 March 1930 – 13 December 2009) was a French actor from Paris. He acted in more than 200 feature films, including '' Fantômas'' with Louis De Funès and Jean Marais. He died of cancer at the age of 79."Le comédien Dominique Zardi est décédé" ''L'Express'', 16 December 2009. He was the uncle of the actress and film director Agnès Jaoui
Agnès Jaoui (born 19 October 1964) is a French actress, screenwriter, film director and singer.
She frequently worked in collaboration with her former partner Jean-Pierre Bacri.
Life and career
Jaoui was born in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, an ...
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Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Biches (1968 Film)
''Les Biches'' ( en, The Does) is a 1968 drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. It depicts a tortured love triangle between characters portrayed by Stéphane Audran and Jacqueline Sassard; Jean-Louis Trintignant also stars. Audran won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival. The film had a total of 627,164 admissions in France. While the film does not acknowledge any literary sources, ''Les Biches'' is loosely based on Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel '' The Talented Mr. Ripley'', with the main characters' genders being switched. Chabrol's screenwriter Paul Gégauff had previously adapted the novel into '' Purple Noon'' in 1960. Plot On the Pont des Arts in Paris, a rich and beautiful woman, Frédérique, picks up a penniless female street artist called Why. Frédérique seduces Why and takes her to her villa in Saint Tropez. The villa is occupied by two gay friends of Frédérique, Robegue and Riasis. At a party, Why meets an architect, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicken With Vinegar
''Cop au Vin'' (french: Poulet au vinaigre) is a 1985 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. The original French title is a pun: it literally means "vinegar chicken," but "poulet" is also French slang for "cop." Chabrol made a sequel in 1986 titled '' Inspecteur Lavardin''. Plot In a small town in France, Louis lives in a large tumbledown house where he looks after his disabled and eccentric mother and works by day as the postman. Henriette, the post office clerk, keeps trying to inveigle him but, in addition to the demands of his mother, he spends his evenings spying on his three enemies. These are three leading citizens who have formed a syndicate to buy and develop his house: the lawyer Lavoisier, the doctor Morasseau, and the butcher Filiol. As he and his mother refuse all offers from this unpleasant trio, the two are subject to continual harassment. One day when Filiol is particularly obnoxious, Louis that night put ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Misérables (1982 Film)
''Les Misérables'' is a 1982 French drama film directed by Robert Hossein. It is one of the numerous screen adaptations of the 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. It was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize. Plot summary Cast * Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean * Michel Bouquet as Inspecteur Javert * Évelyne Bouix as Fantine * Christiane Jean as Cosette ** Valentine Bordelet as Cosette (child) * Jean Carmet as Thénardier * Françoise Seigner as La Thénardier * Frank David as Marius * Candice Patou as Éponine ** Agathe Ladner as Éponine (child) * Emmanuel Curtil as Gavroche * Hervé Furic as Enjolras (as Hervé Fulric) * Louis Seigner as Monseigneur Myriel * Fernand Ledoux as Gillenormand * Paul Préboist as Fauchelevent * Corinne Dacla as Azelma ** Catherine Di Rigo as Azelma (child) (as Kathleen Di Rigo) * Robin Renucci as Courfeyrac * Christian Benedetti as Combeferre (as Christian Bénédetti) * Tony Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Affair (1981 Film)
''Strange Affair'' (french: Une étrange affaire) is a 1981 French drama film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, and starring Michel Piccoli, Gérard Lanvin and Nathalie Baye. Novel The story was adapted from the novel of Jean-Marc Roberts ''Affaires étrangères'', which won in 1979 the Prix Renaudot. Plot Louis Coline (Gérard Lanvin) is an executive assistant in a declining Paris department store. While he is not ambitious and has little to do, he is content with his wife Nina (Nathalie Baye), visits to his mother and grandmother and nights out with his friends playing poker. However, the manipulative Bertrand Malair (Michel Piccoli) becomes the store's new manager, and arrives to shake up the company. Louis fears for his job, but Bertrand draws him into his inner circle of confidants. Bertrand starts to control Louis' life, while Louis is afraid of losing his privileged position. To maintain it Louis works overtime, accepts Bertrand's invitations to nightclubs and dinners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Nozière
''Violette Nozière'' is a 1978 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her encounters with a number of older men. The film had a total of 1,074,507 admissions in France. Plot Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert) is a French teen in the 1930s who secretly works as a prostitute while living with her unsuspecting parents, father Baptiste Nozière (Jean Carmet) and mother Germaine Nozière (Stéphane Audran). Rebelling against her "mean and petty" petit-bourgeois parents, she falls in love with a spendthrift young man, whom she virtually supports with thefts from her parents as well as her prostitution earnings. Meanwhile, her parents are informed by Violette's doctor that she has syphilis. Violette manages to half-persuade her suspicious mother and indulgent father that she has somehow inherited the disease from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartleby (1976 Film)
''Bartleby'' is a 1976 French drama film directed by Maurice Ronet and starring Michael Lonsdale, Maxence Mailfort and Maurice Biraud. It is an adaptation of the short story " Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville. Plot Bartleby is a loner who gets hired as a clerk when a lawyer is desperate to find a reliable assistant. Unfortunately, Bartleby isn't happy with his work. He falls into passivity and depression. When the law office moves, Bartleby prefers to stay in the abandoned rooms. People get fascinated by his strange behaviour. Cast * Michael Lonsdale as the bailiff * Maxence Mailfort as Bartleby * Maurice Biraud as Dindon * Dominique Zardi as Cisaille * Jacques Fontanelle as Gingembre * Hubert Deschamps as the manager * Albert Michel as the prison cook * Philippe Brigaud as the vice director of the prison * Michel Fortin as the taxi driver * Henri Attal as the prison guard * Maurice Ronet Maurice Ronet (13 April 1927 – 14 March 1983) was a French film actor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Linceul N'a Pas De Poches
''Un linceul n'a pas de poches'' (English: ''No Pockets in a Shroud'') is a French film directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky in 1974. Plot A journalist, Michel Dolannes, decides to use his newspaper to denounce the corruption of the established system. One day, he discovers a number of scandals before being shot for attacking the mayor of the town. Technical details * Director : Jean-Pierre Mocky * Screenplay : After the novel by Horace McCoy ''No pockets in a shroud'' * Adapted : Jean-Pierre Mocky, Alain Moury * Script : Alain Moury * Assistant director : Luc Andrieux, Eric Ferro * Photographer : Marcel Weiss * Camera : Paul Rodier, assisted by Christian Dupré * Sound : Séverin Frankiel, assisted by Bernard Le Du * Orchestration : Hervé Roy * Editing : Marie-Louise Barberot, assisted by Michel Saintourens * Scenery : René Loubet * Costumes : Sylvie Jouffa - Claude Gilbert, for clothes - and Jocelyn, for shoes * M. Mézières is dressed by Gudule and Dixieland Boutique, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Before Nightfall
''Just Before Nightfall'' (french: Juste avant la nuit) is a 1971 crime drama film written and directed by Claude Chabrol, based on the 1951 novel ''The Thin Line'' by Edward Atiyah. Audran won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role at the 27th British Academy Film Awards. Plot Charles Masson ( Bouquet), an advertising account executive, is having an affair with Laura (Douking), the wife of his best friend, world-renowned architect François Tellier ( Périer). Their sex life consists of sadomasochistic behavior, and in one of their heated sessions, Charles accidentally strangles Laura. Completely confused, Charles leaves the borrowed apartment in Paris and runs into François at a nearby bistro. The two drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful adjoining houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police because of François. Even though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Things Of Life
''The Things of Life'' (french: Les Choses de la vie) is a 1970 romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, based on the 1967 novel '' Intersection'' by Paul Guimard. The film centers around a car accident experienced by Pierre (Michel Piccoli), an architect, and the events before and after it. The film won the Louis Delluc Prize, and had 2,959,682 admissions in France, becoming the eighth highest-earning film of the year. Plot The structure of the film involves frequent jumps in time - between the time of, and after, the car crash, and before the crash. The opening sequence jumps between the period immediately after the crash, and the crash itself. In the French countryside on a summer morning, a lorry full of pigs stalls at a crossroads. An Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint swerves to avoid it and crashes into an orchard, hurling the driver, Pierre (Michel Piccoli), onto the grass. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he revisits the essential things which make up his lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo (film)
''Jo'' is a French comedy film, originally released in 1971. It is known in English-language territories either as ''Joe: The Busy Body'' or ''The Gazebo''. It was directed by Jean Girault and stars Louis de Funès as playwright Antoine Brisebard, Claude Gensac as an actress and his wife Sylvie Brisebard as well Bernard Blier as inspector Ducros. The script is based on a play by Alec Coppel, published in 1958, ''The Gazebo''. ''Jo'' is its second adaptation, the first one being the 1959 film ''The Gazebo'', starring Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds. Synopsis Antoine Brisebard, a famous comedy playwright, is struggling with financial difficulties and is preparing to sell his country villa to an English couple. What no one knows, however, is that Brisebard is actually a victim of blackmail since his wife Sylvie, a famous actress, is the daughter of a notorious robber-murderer. His extortionist is a malevolent criminal only known as Jo, who visits him often to pick up his hush money. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
