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La Vie Est à Nous !
''It's Our Life!'' or ''La vie est à nous!'' is a 2005 French comedy film. It was directed by Gérard Krawczyk and starred Josiane Balasko and Sylvie Testud. Plot Blanche buries her husband, Camille. Everyone liked him in the village of Savoy. She visits a bistro, "The Stage" with her daughter, Louise. She put a cell phone in the coffin of her father so his mother "... can join at any time". Among the regulars of "The Stage" are Chip, son of a drunkard, and an alcoholic himself, to whom the two women complain of frequent competing bar of Louise Chevrier, "The Turn", across side of the road. Able to collect broken children, Louise, who believes in the power of words to heal the pain, also has a new resident, Julien refuge in his silence. Cast * Sylvie Testud as Louise Delhomme * Josiane Balasko as Blanche Delhomme * Michel Muller as The chip * Eric Cantona as Pierre * Catherine Hiegel as Lucie Chevrier * Carole Weiss as Irène * Maroussia Dubreuil as Cécile * Celia Rosich as M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Krawczyk
Gérard Krawczyk (17 May 1953, Paris) is a French film director. He is of Polish descent (his grandparents were from Częstochowa). Filmography Director * ''Homicide by Night'' (1984) * ''Je hais les acteurs'' (a.k.a. ''I hate actors'') (1986) * '' L'été en pente douce'' (1987) * ''Taxi 2'' (2000) * ''Wasabi'' ( 2001) * ''Taxi 3'' ( 2003) * ''Fanfan la tulipe'' ( 2003) * '' La vie est à nous !'' ( 2005) * '' Taxi 4'' ( 2007) * '' L'Auberge rouge'' ( 2007) Actor * ''Papillon du vertige'' (1987) * ''XY, drôle de conception'' ( 1996) - L'homme spermogramme #2 * ''Amour et confusions'' (1997) * ''Héroïnes'' (1997) - Médecin * '' The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'' (1999) - Church's Peer - Coronation * ''Taxi 3'' ( 2003) - Policier Camionnette #2 * '' La vie est à nous !'' ( 2005) - Un client du bar * ''A French Gigolo'' (2008) - Le patron du bistrot * ''Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets'' (2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Dell
Jean Dell (born 17 March 1961) is a French actor and writer. Career After starting out in radio, he turned to the stage, film and television, where he will create and perform several sketches of the show Les Grosses Têtes Les Grosses Têtes (; ("The Big Heads" or "The Big Brains" in English) is a daily comedy radio programme on the French language RTL radio network. Broadcast since 1 April 1977, the current host since 2014 has been Laurent Ruquier. Presently bro .... He also participated in the show ''La Classe'', where he met his wife, Christiane Bopp. Theatre Filmography Actor Writer References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dell, Jean 1961 births Living people French male film actors French male television actors 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors Writers from Saint-Étienne Actors from Saint-Étienne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s French-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Comedy Films
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VCU French Film Festival
The French Film Festival - Richmond, VA is an annual film festival held in Richmond, Virginia, focused on recently produced French-language films. It was created in 1993 by Drs. Peter and Françoise Kirkpatrick, professors of French literature, culture and film studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Richmond, respectively. It is billed as the largest festival of French film in the United States. Since then, and as of 2015, it has welcomed a delegation totaling more than 380 directors, producers, actors, film scholars, critics, and French government officials. At the 2004 Festival, the Festival's founders and directors, Drs. Peter and Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, were decorated as "Chevaliers de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres", a high honor in the arts in France, and in 2011, the Médaille Beaumarchais by the French Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques. The festival usually takes place the last weekend of March, during which the city is filled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld (born 17 July 1962) is a French actor, writer and director. His film, '' La journée de la jupe'', was nominated for three César Awards in 2009, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay for Lilienfeld. Director filmography *'' Il n'y a guère que les actions qui montent'' (1990) (short) *'' Seventh Heaven (De zevende hemel)'' (1993) *'' XY, drôle de conception'' (1996) *'' Quatre garçons pleins d'avenir'' (1997) *''HS - hors service'' (2001) *'' La journée de la jupe'' (2009) *''Arrêtez-moi'' (2012) Actor filmography * ''L'été en pente douce ''L'été en pente douce'' (''Summer on a gentle slope'') is a French film, an adaptation of a novel by Pierre Pelot. It was directed by Gérard Krawczyk, and released in 1987. Synopsis Following the death of his mother, Stephane Leheurt, nickn ...'' (1987) * '' La vie est à nous !'' (2005) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lilienfeld, Jean-Paul French male screenwriters French scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginie Lemoine
Virginie Lemoine (born 26 February 1961) is a French actress and comedian. By her marriage with actor Alexandre Bonstein, she also has Swiss nationality. Career Virginie Lemoine attended acting school at the Conservatory in Rouen. From 1982 to 1990, she played theater on stage, and regularly participated in the show ''Ainsi font font font'', hosted by Jacques Martin on France 2. In 1991, she became a radio host in the show ''C'est aussi bien à l'ombre'' and ''Le Vrai Faux Journal''. In 1992, Laurent Gerra and Lemoine Virginie became a comedy duo and appeared in many television shows and became very popular. From 2001 to 2016, she played the leading role of the TV series ''Famille d'accueil'', broadcast on France 3. Filmography Theater * 1999 : ''Mariages et conséquences'', by Alan Ayckbourn, Théâtre de la Renaissance * 2006 : ''Si c'était à refaire'', by Laurent Ruquier Laurent Hugues Emmanuel Ruquier (; born 24 February 1963) is a French television presenter, radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Mathou
Jacques Mathou is a French actor, best known for his appearance in ''Delicatessen''. Filmography * 1985 : ''Tranches de vie'' * 1986 : ''Betty Blue'', Bob * 1987 : ''L'été en pente douce'' * 1987 : '' Si le soleil ne revenait pas'' * 1989 : ''Roselyne et les lions'', Armani * 1989 : '' Dédé'', the priest * 1990 : ''The Hairdresser's Husband'', Mr Chardon * 1991 : ''Delicatessen'', Roger * 1994 : ''Tombés du ciel'', Policeman * 1996 : '' Les Grands Ducs'', Janvier * 2011 : ''Voir la mer ''Voir la mer'' () is a 2011 French road comedy-drama film written and directed by Patrice Leconte, and starring Nicolas Giraud, Clément Sibony and Pauline Lefèvre. It was released in France on 4 May 2011 by Océan Films. Synopsis Two young b ...'', Jacky Novion * 2005 : '' La vie est à nous !'', M. Antoine * 2006 : '' My Best Friend'', Bruno's father External links Jacques Mathou on IMDB.com Living people Year of birth missing (living people) French male film actors French male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Gourio
Jean-Marie Gourio (born 1956) is a French novelist, humorist and screenwriter. He was born in Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne. He won early fame for his column ''Brèves de comptoir'', published in the satirical magazine ''Hara-Kiri''. Compilations of the columns were published annually, and even adapted for the stage. Gourio has written several novels, starting with his debut novel ''Autopsie d’un nain'' (1987). His 1998 novel ''Chut!'' was widely praised and won several literary prizes. Cinema Some of his book had been adapted into film. * 2005 : '' La vie est à nous !'', directed by Gérard Krawczyk (adapted from ''L'eau des fleurs'' In 2014, he write the screenplay of '' Brèves de comptoir'' with Jean-Michel Ribes Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had directed .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Aguilar
George Aguilar is a Mescalero Apache and Pascua Yaqui actor. He is best known for his roles as Cahuenga in '' Bagdad Café'', Johnny Sassamon in ''The Scarlet Letter'', Grandfather Stone in Dreamkeeper, Big Foot in '' Into the West'', and Kaw Chief in ''Neverland''. Career Aguilar is probably best known for his work on ''Bagdad Cafe'' (1987), ''The Scarlet Letter'' (1995) and the miniseries ''Neverland'' (2011). Personal life Aguilar has been married to French actress Josiane Balasko since 2003. They reside in the Paris Paris () is the capital and 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 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ... area. A son, also named George Aguilar, was a car mechanic and aspiring actor who with his father appeared in ''The Scarlet Letter'' (1995) and ''Into The West'' (2005); he died in 2008 at age 28. Filmograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
