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Frédéric Andréi
Frédéric Andréi (born 23 October 1959) is a French actor and director. In 1980 he starred in '' Le Voyage en douce'' under director Michel Deville. The next year he played the lead in Jean-Jacques Beineix's ''Diva Diva (, ) is the Latin word for a goddess. Diva is a name from Roman mythology, and is associated with the nouns divus, diva, which means god, goddess, and the adjective divinius, which means divine or heavenly. It has often been used to refer t ...'', as Jules, a moped-riding postman obsessed with an American opera singer. He directed the feature films ''Paris Minuit'' (1986) and ''Par suite d'un arrêt de travail'' (2008). References External links * French male film actors 1959 births Living people {{France-film-actor-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Voyage En Douce
''Le Voyage en douce'' is a 1980 French drama film directed by Michel Deville. The screenplay is shaped around 15 different sexual anecdotes, penned by 15 writers. The film stars Dominique Sanda and Geraldine Chaplin. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot Disillusioned with the men in their lives, two friends, Hélène and Lucie, take a break to explore possible summer homes in the South of France. As the pair spend time together, they share sexual memories and fantasies and even enact some. Despite the pleasure of temporary freedom and companionship, they have to return to reality and its unresolved problems. Cast * Dominique Sanda as Hélène * Geraldine Chaplin as Lucie * Jacques Zabor as Denis * Jean Crubelier as L'homme des maisons * Valerie Masterson as La cantatrice * Cécile Le Bailly as Marie * Jacqueline Parent as Mathilde * Jacques Pieiller as Pinson * Liliane Rovère as The Voice * Françoise Morhange as La grand-mère * Frédér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Deville
Michel Deville (13 April 1931 – 16 February 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ..., possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France. One of Deville's comedies, '' La Lectrice'' (''The Reader'') was probably his biggest success with international audiences. ''La Lectrice'' is about a woman (played by Miou-Miou), who find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jean-Jacques Beineix (; 8 October 1946 – 13 January 2022) was a French film director best known for the films '' Diva'' and '' Betty Blue''. His work is regarded as a prime example of the '' cinéma du look'' film movement in France. Early life and education Jean-Jacques Beineix was the son of Robert Beineix, director of an insurance company, and wife Madeleine Maréchal. He was a student at both the Lycée Carnot and Lycée Condorcet in Paris. After earning his baccalaureat, he enrolled in medical school, but dropped out after the events of May 1968. He took the competitive entrance exam for the Paris film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC), but failed it (his final rank was 21st). Career Jean-Jacques Beineix began his career in 1964 as Jean Becker's assistant director on the popular French TV series '. He remained with the series for three years. In 1970, he worked for Claude Berri and, the following year, for Claude Zidi. In 1972, he was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diva (1981 Film)
''Diva'' is a 1981 French Thriller (genre), thriller film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from the novel ''Diva (Odier novel), Diva'' by Daniel Odier. It eschewed the Realism (arts), realist mood of the 1970s French cinema and instead adopted a colourful, melodic style, later described as ''cinéma du look''. The mixture of "film noir, opera and art-house styles" did not please the producers,Russell, David. Two or Three Things we know about Beneix. ''Sight and Sound'', January 1990, p42-7. but was more to the liking of the Canadian audience at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was screened and achieved a 'Critics' Choice' in 1981. The film made a successful debut in France in 1981 with 2,281,569 admissions, and had success in the U.S. the next year, grossing $2,678,103. The film was selected as the French entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. ''Diva'' beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Male Film Actors
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1959 Births
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
