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Marie-Hélène Lentini
Marie-Hélène Lentini is a French actress and comedian. Theater Filmography References External links * French film actresses Living people 21st-century French actresses Actresses from Paris 20th-century French actresses French stage actresses French television actresses Year of birth missing (living people) {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, 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 the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-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 region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steel Magnolias (play)
''Steel Magnolias'' is a stage play by American writer Robert Harling, based on his experience with his sister's death. The play is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. The title suggests the "female characters are as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel". The magnolia specifically references a magnolia tree they are arguing about at the beginning. Synopsis Set in the fictional northwestern Louisiana parish of Chinquapin, the play opens at Truvy's in-home beauty parlor where a group of women regularly gather. They discuss Shelby's upcoming wedding to her fiancé, Jackson. The plot covers events over the next three years relating to Shelby's Type 1 diabetes, and with how the women cope with their conflicts, while remaining friends: Shelby's decision to have a child despite jeopardizing her health, Clairee's friendship with the curmudgeon Ouiser; Annelle's transformation from a shy, anxious newcomer in town to a good-time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Faure (director)
Christian Faure (born 1954) is a French screenwriter and film director. Filmography References External links * 1954 births Living people French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters French-language film directors {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Poisoner
''The Poisoner'' or ''Marie Besnard, l'empoisonneuse'' is a 2006 French-Belgium drama television film directed by Christian Faure. It stars Muriel Robin as Marie Besnard and it was broadcast on TF1 in 2006. Plot In 1947, in Loudun, Mary and Leon Besnard celebrate with their friends, eighteen years of marriage. Marie surprising gestures moved between Leo and her best friend, Louise. Soon after, Leo gets sick and dies. Louise confided to a friend that Leo was convinced he was poisoned by his wife. In Paris, Simone Roulier, a trainee journalist, decides to cover the case. Cast * Muriel Robin as Marie Besnard * Mélanie Bernier as Simone Roulier * Olivier Saladin as Auguste Leclerc * Grégory Fitoussi as Monsieur Vidal * Marie-Hélène Lentini as Madame Rossignol * Mado Maurin as Madame Davaillaud * Maurice Antoni as Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (; ; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French physicist and husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, with who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Berry (director)
Dennis Charles Berry (August 11, 1944 – June 12, 2021) was an American-French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was the son of director John Berry. Selected filmography * '' La Collectionneuse'' (actor, 1967) * ''Paulina Is Leaving'' – ''Paulina s'en va'' (actor, 1969) * ''Promise at Dawn'' (actor, 1970) * ''Borsalino'' (actor, 1970) * ''The Big Delirium'' (director, 1975) * ''Last Song'' (director, 1987) * ''Chloé'' (director, 1996) * ''Stargate SG-1'' (director, 1997) * '' Highlander: The Raven'' (director, 1998) * '' Adventure Inc.'' (director 2 episodes, 2003) * ''Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed ...'' (director, 2016 TV series) References External links * 1944 births 2021 deaths Film directors from Los Angeles American male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Jugnot
Gérard Jugnot (; born 4 May 1951) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. Jugnot was one of the founders of the comedy ''troupe'' Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, and Michel Blanc. Then Josiane Balasko and Marie-Anne Chazel joined them. The group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema and was extremely successful in films such as ''Les Bronzés'' (1978), ''Les Bronzés font du ski'' (1979) and ''Le Père Noël est une ordure'' (1982). Jugnot gained international fame for his lead role in ''Les Choristes'' in which he played Clément Mathieu. The last movie he directed was '' C'est beau la vie quand on y pense'' (2017). Jugnot is the father of comedian Arthur Jugnot, born in 1980 to Jugnot and wardrobe designer Cécile Magnan. He was made ''Chevalier'' (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2004. Life and career Jugnot met Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur Batignole
''Monsieur Batignole'' is a French film released in 2002. The film was directed by Gérard Jugnot and featured Gérard Jugnot, Jules Sitruk, Jean-Paul Rouve, Götz Burger, Michèle Garcia and Alexia Portal in lead roles. The film depicts the story of an ordinary grocer, Edmond Batignole, who helps the young son of his Jewish neighbour, and the boy's two cousins, to reach Switzerland safely. Plot In 1942, in Paris, which was under German occupation during World War II, a grocer Edmond Batignole (Gérard Jugnot) is living with his family on the ground floor of an apartment building. He has a daughter who is soon to be married. His future son-in-law, an aspiring writer Pierre-Jean (Jean-Paul Rouve) wants the penthouse apartment occupied by a Jewish family, the Bernsteins, and alerts the Gestapo who capture the family early one morning. When the Bernsteins' property is confiscated, the Batignoles apply for and are awarded the apartment. The Batignoles cater a party for SS officials i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élisabeth Rappeneau
Élisabeth Rappeneau (19 January 1940 – 2 January 2020) was a French and . Personal life She was the sister of the French directorJean-Paul Rappeneau
Jean-Paul Rappeneau (born 8 April 1932) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Career
He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Louis Mall ...
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Éric Toledano And Olivier Nakache
Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache are French filmmakers, best known for directing the films '' Those Happy Days'' and ''The Intouchables'' (2011). Early life Éric Toledano was born on 3 July 1971 in Paris. Olivier Nakache was born on 15 April 1973 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine. Toledano and Nakache are both Jewish. Toledano's parents were immigrants from Morocco, while Nakache's parents were from Algeria. Career Toledano and Nakache collaborated several times before directing ''The Intouchables'' (2011), which became one of the greatest box office successes in French film history and for which they were nominated for several awards, including three Cesar Awards. They have collaborated several times with actor Omar Sy, most recently with the 2014 film ''Samba''. Their 2019 film ''The Specials'' stars Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb. The film shows Parisians from many different groups in society making connections with each other through their work with autistic children and young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Clavier
Stéphane Clavier (born 14 March 1955) is a French screenwriter and film director. Personal life Stéphane is the brother of actor Christian Clavier Christian Jean-Marie Clavier (; born 6 May 1952) is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He became widely popular after starring in two hit comedy series: Patrice Leconte's ''Les Bronzés'' and ''Les Visiteurs'' directed by J .... Filmography References External links * 1955 births Living people French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters French-language film directors {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Maria Bamberger
Ana Maria Bamberger (born 12 November 1966) is a Romanian physician and playwright. She is employed at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hamburg. She was born in Bucharest. Bamberger began writing plays in 2003. She studied playwriting with Stephen Jeffreys at the Royal Court Theatre in London, graduating in 2011. She has collaborated with the National Theatre Bucharest, with Theater Kontraste in Hamburg, with ABC Theater in Prague and with the Davenport Theatre in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L .... She formed a close artistic relationship with the actress , who performed in her first play. Selected plays * ''10 Intrebari'' * ''Belvedere'' * ''Noiembrie'' * ''Infractorii'' ("Criminals") * ''Blind date'' * ''Peste cu mazare'' ("Fish with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Gredy
Jean-Pierre Grédy, often anglicised as Gredy (16 August 1920 – 6 February 2022) was a French playwright. Biography After studying literature and law, Grédy entered IDHEC because he wanted to write screenplays. He wrote the screenplay for the film '' Julie de Carneilhan'', based on a 1941 novel by the French writer Colette, directed by Jacques Manuel and starring Edwige Feuillère. He then met Pierre Barillet with whom he wrote "for fun" ''Le Don d'Adèle'', which was an unexpected success, exceeding a thousand performances and receiving the Tristan-Bernard prize. Over the next several decades, Grédy and Barillet wrote more than 20 plays together. Certain of their plays were adapted to Broadway, including ''Fleur de cactus'' ('' Cactus Flower'', written by Abe Burrows) and ''Quarante carats'' (''Forty Carats''). Grédy died on 6 February 2022, at the age of 101. Works Film adaptations (selected)2013: ''Théâtre de Barillet et Grédy'', éditions Omnibus () *', directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
