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Le Fils De Gascogne
''Le Fils de Gascogne'' (''Gascogne's Son'') is a French film directed by Pascal Aubier from a scenario by Patrick Modiano and Pascal Aubier, released on 8 May 1996 in film, 1996. The adventures of Harvey, guide of a group of Georgian singers in Paris, and Dinara their interpreter, are used as a framework to provide a fantastic and nostalgic evocation of the cinema of the 1960s. Synopsis Harvey, a timid provincial young man, accommodate a troop of Georgia (country), Georgian choristers accompanied by Dinara, their interpreter (a quarter Russian: "''my father is Tatars, Tatar, my mother is half Russian, half Jewish''"), and acts as their guide in Paris. In a restaurant,a customer joins the singers and claims to recognize Harvey as the son of a script writer named Gascogne, who died twenty-five years earlier in an automobile accident. Marco, one of his friends, tries to profit from this situation, made all the easier as Harvey was born from an unknown father. He tries to find the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Aubier
Pascal Aubier is a French actor, director, script writer, producer and editor, born in 1943 in Paris, France. Filmography As actor * 1958 : '' Faibles femmes'' * 1964 : ''Lucky Jo'' * 1965 : '' Pierrot le fou'' : ''Brother #2'' * 1966 : ''Chappaqua'' * 1967 : '' Mamaia'' : ''Manager'' * 1968 : '' La Fille d'en face'' : ''Georges'' * 1969 : '' Sirocco d'hiver'' (''Sirokkó'') : ''Tihomir'' * 1969 : '' L'Examen du petit'' * 1969 : '' La Bande à Bonnot'' : ''Eugène Dieudonné'' * 1971 : '' Valparaiso, Valparaiso'' * 1972 : '' Le Soldat et les trois sœurs'' * 1979 : '' Rien ne va plus'' : ''Hospital patient, Métro passenger, Jean-Gabriel'' * 1980 : '' Bobo la tête'' : ''The officer'' * 1980 : '' Ma blonde, entends-tu dans la ville ?'' : ''Syndicaliste'' * 1981 : '' Le Rat'' * 1982 : '' Tokyo no yami'' (aka ''Laissé inachevé à Tokyo'') * 1982 : ''Rock'' (TV) : ''Impresario Guzzi Smith'' * 1983 : '' Debout les crabes, la mer monte !'', dir. Jean-Jacques Grand-Jouan : ''Le m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Deville
Michel Deville (born 13 April 1931) is 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, 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 finds work reading novels for the blind but gradually finds herself unwittingly attracting a clientele of fetishists who enjoyed being read to. At one time his films were difficult to find in North America but presently (2007) seven of his films are available in DVD in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Musical Comedy-drama Films
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Vlady
Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French actress. Biography Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. The sisters began acting as children and, for a while, pursued a ballet career. From 1955 to 1959, she was married to actor/ director Robert Hossein. From 1963 to 1966, she was married to Jean-Claude Brouillet, a French entrepreneur, owner of two airlines and member of French Resistance. Vlady was married to Soviet poet/songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky from 1969 until his death in 1980. She lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from the 1980s until his death in 2003. Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for '' The Conjugal Bed''. In 1965, she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Vlady starred in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Stewart
Alexandra Stewart (born June 10, 1939) is a Canadian actress. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, Stewart left for Paris, France, in 1958, to study art. Within a year, she made her film debut in '' Les Motards'', and has since then enjoyed a steady career in both French- and English-language films. Besides her cinema career, Stewart regularly appeared on television in shows such as '' Les Jeux de 20 heures'' and '' L'Académie des neuf''. She has also appeared in the 1981 cartoon ''Space Stars'' and had cameos in '' Highlander: The Series'', '' The Saint'' and ''Danger Man'' (TV Series) . Notably, she is also the English-language narrator of Chris Marker's 1983 documentary, ''Sans Soleil''. She was part of the jury of the 2004 Chicago International Film Festival. Personal life Stewart had a daughter, Justine, with the French director Louis Malle. Selected filmography *1956: ''Women's Club'' (by Ralph Habib) (uncredited) *1959: '' Les Motards'' (by Jean Laviron) as La speake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch (; 31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker, for over 60 years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of ''shared anthropology''. Influenced by his discovery of surrealism in his early twenties, many of his films blur the line between fiction and documentary, creating a new style: ethnofiction. The French New Wave filmmakers hailed Rouch as one of their own. Commenting on Rouch's work as someone "in charge of research for the Musée de l'Homme" in Paris, Godard said, “Is there a better definition for a filmmaker?". Biography Rouch began his long association with Nigerien subjects in 1941, when he arrived in Niamey as a French colonial hydrology engineer to supervise a construction project in Niger. There he met Damouré Zika, the son of a Songhai traditional healer and fisherman, near the town of Ayorou, on the Niger River. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-France Pisier
Marie-France Pisier (10 May 194424 April 2011) was a French actress, screenwriter, and director. She appeared in numerous films of the French New Wave and twice earned the national César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Early life Pisier was born in Dalat, Viet Nam, where her father was serving as a colonial official in French Indochina. Her younger brother, Gilles Pisier, is a mathematician and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Her sister, political scientist Evelyn, was the first wife of Bernard Kouchner, a French politician and the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières. The family moved to Paris when Marie-France was 12 years old. Career Five years later, Pisier made her screen acting debut for director François Truffaut in his 1962 film ''Antoine and Colette''. She had a brief but incendiary romance with the older, married Truffaut. Despite its end, she later appeared in Truffaut's '' Stolen Kisses'' (''Baisers volés'', 1968) and '' Love on the Run'' (''L' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulle Ogier
Bulle Ogier (born Marie-France Thielland; 9 August 1939) is a French actress and screenwriter. She adopted the professional surname Ogier, which was her mother's maiden name. Her first appearance on screen was in ''Voilà l'Ordre'', a short film directed by Jacques Baratier with a number of the then-emerging young singers of the 1960s in France, including Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, etc. She worked with Jacques Rivette (''L'amour fou'', ''Céline et Julie vont en bateau'', ''Duelle'', ''Le Pont du Nord, La Bande des Quatre''), Luis Buñuel (''Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie''), Alain Tanner ('' La Salamandre''), René Allio, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Paul Civeyrac (''All the Fine Promises'' Prix Jean Vigo), Marguerite Duras, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Barbet Schroeder, and others. Ogier was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1972. Family life Ogier is married to producer and director Barbet Schroeder. She had a daughter, Pascale (1958–1984), who adopted her mother's pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macha Méril
Macha Méril (; born Princess Maria-Magdalena Vladimirovna Gagarina on 3 September 1940) is a French actress and writer. Biography Méril is descended by her father from the Russian princely house Gagarin and by her mother from a Ukrainian noble family. She appeared in 125 films between 1959 and 2012, including films directed by Jean-Luc Godard ('' A Married Woman'' / ''Une femme mariée''), Luis Buñuel ('' Belle de jour''), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (''Chinese Roulette''). She also appeared in the Quebec television series ''Lance et Compte''. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Helga Ulmann in Dario Argento's ''Deep Red'' and in Aldo Lado Aldo Lado (born 5 December 1934) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and writer. Lado was born in Fiume, Italy (today Rijeka, Croatia). Lado wrote the screenplays for 21 films between 1968 and 2004 and directed 14 films between 1971 and ...'s '' Night Train Murders'' (1975). Theater Filmography References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte (; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter. Life and career Leconte grew up in Tours, and began making little amateur films at 15. He went to Paris in 1967 and studied at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. While attending film school in the late 1960s, Leconte also worked as a cartoonist, in particular for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Pilote''. He directed his first feature film in 1976, and had a number of major successes with comedy films that were barely distributed outside France. He first came to international attention in 1989 with ''Monsieur Hire'', which was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and which was a radical departure from his previous work. Although he had already directed more than half a dozen features, many foreign critics, unfamiliar with his previous work, essentially treated him as a newcomer. Since then, he has alternated between films such as ''Ridicule'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Leacock
Richard Leacock (18 July 192123 March 2011) The Telegraph (London), 24 March 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2011. was a British-born documentary film director and one of the pioneers of direct cinema and . Early life and career Leacock was born in London on 18 July 1921, the younger brother of film director and producer . Leacock grew up on his father's banana plantation in the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valérie Lalonde
Valerie is generally a feminine given name, derived directly from the French ''Valérie'' (a female-only name). Valéry or Valery is a masculine given name in parts of Europe (particularly in France and Russia), as well as a common surname in Francophone countries. Another, much rarer, French masculine form can be Valère. Both feminine and masculine forms have derivatives in many European languages and are especially common in Russian and other Eastern European languages. However, the masculine form is not always a cognate of the feminine: it can have a distinct etymology. Etymology Romance The name is generally of Romance origins. The Latin clan name, ''Valerius'', is masculine and denotes strength, health or boldness. ''Valeria'' is simply the feminine form of this. Both masculine and feminine given names are derived via French into other languages. In Catholic Europe, given names always related the individual to a saint, so the popularity of a name often reflected the impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
