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Monique Mélinand
Monique Mélinand (9 March 1916 – 16 May 2012) was a French film and television actress.Capua p.177 Selected filmography * ''Rouletabille joue et gagne'' (1947) * ''Rouletabille contre la dame de pique'' (1948) * ''Between Eleven and Midnight'' (1949) - Irma * ''Au royaume des cieux'' (1949) - Mademoiselle Guérande * ''Lady Paname'' (1950) - Costa - l'accompagnatrice * '' Old Boys of Saint-Loup'' (1950) - Hélène Laclaux * ''The Drunkard'' (1953) - Denise Lamarche * '' Blood to the Head'' (1956) - Marthe Cardinaud * ''Women Are Weak'' (1959) - Mme Fenal, Julien's mother * ''Magnificent Sinner'' (1959) - Tsarina Maria * ''Vers l'extase'' (1960) - Mme Schultz * ''The End of Belle'' (1961) - Mme. Monique Blanchon * ''Rencontres'' (1962) - Inès * '' La Bonne Soupe'' (1964) - La mère de Marie * ''Angélique, Marquise des Anges'' (1964) - La Marquise du Plessis-Bellières (uncredited) * ''The Great Spy Chase'' (1964) - Mme Lagneau (uncredited) * ''The Thief of Paris'' (1967) - Mm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris, France
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] |
Last Known Address
''Last Known Address'' (french: Dernier domicile connu) is a 1970 French-Italian film directed by José Giovanni. This movie is based on the eponymous novel ''The Last Known Address'' by Joseph Harrington. Its theme tune, composed by François de Roubaix, has subsequently been sampled in several songs, such as "All n My Grill" by Missy Elliott and " Supreme" by Robbie Williams. Plot Marceau Léonetti ( Lino Ventura), a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result, Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where the height of his investigative exploits is recovering a young boys stolen pigeons. Contacted by an old colleague of his, who is now head of a special crime unit, Léonetti is enlisted into the unit. There he meets young and beautiful police officer Jeanne (Marlène Jobert), and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genealogies Of A Crime
''Genealogies of a Crime'' (french: Généalogies d'un crime, pt, Genealogias de um Crime) is a 1997 French-Portuguese film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution. Despite being released in 1997 (1998 in the United States), the film was not released on DVD until 2005. Since, it has been included in multiple DVD anthologies of Ruiz’s works. Plot During a stormy night, René (Melvil Poupaud) disposes of a knife, which is picked up by an unrevealed individual. The scene fades to a blank Go board and the narrator describes an ancient Chinese fable concerning a young man who kills a woman of the Liu Bao family, only to be killed after falling in love with her ghost. Presumably later, Solange (Catherine Deneuve) is questioned by a lawyer. She begins recounting how she took on René’s case: Immediately after the death of her son, Pascal, Solange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Lives And Only One Death
''Three Lives and Only One Death'' (french: Trois vies et une seule mort) is a 1996 French film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, and was the penultimate film to star Marcello Mastroianni, before his death in 1996. Plot Pierre Bellemare, a French radio personality appears to recount four strange, seemingly non-coexisting, tales that make up the complex narrative structure of ''Three Lives and Only One Death''. In the first tale we are introduced to Andre Parisi, a family man who has woken up with a terrible headache. Andre leaves to a local cafe where he meets one of the multiple enigmatic central characters, Matteo Strano (Marcello Mastroianni). Matteo offers Andre champagne and 1000 francs to listen to his story. Prior to the scene of Matteo's own storytelling, he reveals he was once married to Andre's wife. Matteo recounts the day he went out, on a whim, and rented out an apartment. Matteo insists this apartment is inha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan The Maid
''Joan the Maid'' (french: Jeanne la pucelle) is a two-part 1994 French historical film directed by Jacques Rivette. It chronicles the life of Joan of Arc from the French perspective. This film was released in two parts: ''Joan the Maid, Part 1: The Battles'' (french: Les Batailles) and ''Joan the Maid, Part 2: The Prisons'' (french: Les Prisons). Cast * Sandrine Bonnaire as Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) * Édith Scob as Jeanne de Béthune *Tatiana Moukhine as Isabelle Romée *Jean-Marie Richier as Durand Laxart *Baptiste Roussillon as Baudricourt *Jean-Luc Petit as Henri Le Royer *Bernadette Giraud as Catherine Le Royer *Jean-Claude Jay as Jacques Alain *Olivier Cruveiller as Jean de Metz *Benjamin Rataud as Bertrand de Poulengy *André Marcon as Charles, Dauphin of France *Jean-Louis Richard as La Trémoille *Marcel Bozonnet as Regnault de Chartres *Patrick Le Mauff as Jean Bâtard d'Orléans *Didier Sauvegrain as Raoul de Gaucourt *Jean-Pierre Lorit as Jean d'Alençon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Us Two (film)
''Us Two'' (french: À nous deux) is a 1979 drama film written, directed and produced by Claude Lelouch. It was screened out of competition at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Catherine Deneuve as Françoise * Jacques Dutronc as Simon Lacassaigne * Jacques Villeret as Tonton Musique * Paul Préboist as Mimile * Bernard Le Coq as photographer (as Bernard Lecoq) * Gilberte Géniat as Zézette * Jacques Godin as Major Strauss * Monique Mélinand as Françoise's mother * Émile Genest as American chief of police * Jean-François Rémi as Françoise's father * Bernard Crombey as Alain (as Bernard Crommbey) * Daniel Auteuil Daniel Auteuil (; born 24 January 1950) is a French actor and director who has appeared in a wide range of film genres, including period dramas, romantic comedies, and crime thrillers. In 1996 he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Fest ... as thug * John Boylan as highway patrol References External links * * * 1979 films 1979 drama f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solemn Communion
''Solemn Communion'' (french: La Communion solennelle) is a 1977 French comedy-drama film directed by René Féret. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Christian Drillaud as Young Charles Gravet * Claude Bouchery as Jules Ternolain * Isabelle Caillard as Young Josette Dauchy * Patrick Fierry as Young François Dauchy * Véronique Silver as Josette Dauchy at 40 * Marcel Dalio as Old Charles Gravet * Myriam Boyer as Léone Gravet * Manuel Strosser as Julien III Gravet * André Marcon as Lucien Gravet * Marief Guittier as Julie Ternolain at 25 * Claude-Emile Rosen as Honore Dauchy * René Féret as Julien I Gravet at 30 * Andrée Tainsy as Charlotte * Roland Amstutz as Raoul L'Homme, le fils naturel de François * Monique Mélinand as Julie Ternolain at 45 * Vincent Pinel as Leon Gravet * Ariane Ascaride as Palmyre * Yveline Ailhaud as Marie * Eric Lebel as Julien I Gravet as child * Nathalie Baye as Jeanne Vanderberghe * Gérard Chaillou as Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Body Of My Enemy
''Le Corps de mon ennemi'' (also known as ''Body of My Enemy'' ) is a 1976 French crime film directed by Henri Verneuil. Plot After François Leclercq seduces the young and rich Gilberte Beaumont-Liégard, she introduces him to her family. Through the budding relationship with her in-laws, Leclercq is able to assimilate into the local upper class of his hometown, Cornai. A friend of Gilberte's father, Raphaël Di Massa hires him as manager of his new nightclub, "Number One". The oblivious parvenu Leclercq eventually discovers that "Number One" is actually a cover-up for Raphaël Di Massa's illegal drug trade. Following a dispute between Di Massa and Leclercq, the gun of the latter is stolen and used in the murder of a local football star. An orchestrated miscarriage of justice puts Leclercq in prison, despite his innocence. Seven years later, he returns to Cornai and discovers that it wasn't Di Massa, but Gilberte's father Jean-Baptiste Beaumont-Liégard who ran the drug operatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sept Morts Sur Ordonnance
''Sept morts sur ordonnance'' (''Seven Deaths by Prescription'' or ''Bestial Quartet'') is a 1975 French drama film directed by Jacques Rouffio and starring Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Jane Birkin, Marina Vlady, Charles Vanel and Valérie Mairesse. The film was awarded the César Award for Best Editing, and was nominated for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Writing. Plot Pierre Losseray is a surgeon at the public hospital in a small provincial town in France (Clermont-Ferrand). He has recently suffered a heart attack but has returned to work. He is appreciated by his patients, and is being harassed by Old Brézé, the owner of a nearby medical clinic, who is losing clients and cannot stand competition. In league with his sons and son-in-law, Brézé uses insinuations close to blackmail. Losseray also learns about the story of Doctor Jean-Pierre Berg, another surgeon with a very different lifestyle from Losseray, who was similarly hassled by the same man fifteen years bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mouth Agape
''The Mouth Agape'' (french: La gueule ouverte) is a 1974 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat. It depicts, in a cinematic realist fashion, a woman going through a terminal illness and also dealing with the tumultuous lives of her husband and son. It was one of the least commercially successful of Pialat's films. It was the third film of the ten that he directed before his death in January 2003. It is also known under the titles ''The Gaping Mouth'' and ''The Gaping Maw''. The film stars Monique Mélinand, Philippe Léotard, Hubert Deschamps, and Nathalie Baye in the main roles. Néstor Almendros, the Spanish cinematographer known for working with the Nouvelle Vague directors François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, collaborated with Pialat for the first time on ''The Mouth Agape''. The title is a poetic reference to the open mouth position sometimes found in corpses. Plot Monique Mélinand portrays a woman in the late stages of terminal illness. Her son Philippe ( Philippe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creezy (film)
''Creezy'' () is a 1974 French film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and starring Alain Delon. It is based on the novel '' Creezy'' by Félicien Marceau. It recorded admissions of 801,704 at the French box office. at Box Office Story Plot Julien Dandieu is a senior figure in the Unified Republican Party (PRU), which has a chance of political power in a conservative coalition after the forthcoming election. His wife and son need his support but his political ambitions come first. Then he and a beautiful model, the "Creezy" (= "crazy") of the title, fall in love, and she wants to come first in his attentions. Afte ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Slightly Pregnant Man
''A Slightly Pregnant Man'' (french: L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune, lit=The Most Important Event Since Man Walked on the Moon; it, Niente di grave, suo marito è incinto, lit=No Big Deal, Your Husband Is Pregnant) is a 1973 comedy film written and directed by Jacques Demy. Plot Marco is a driving instructor who is engaged to single mother Irène, a hairdresser. After eating a chicken dinner, he complains to his housekeeper that she cooks chicken too frequently. He begins to feel bloated and tired and sees a doctor. The doctor determines that he is pregnant, and an expert concludes that the hormones in chicken have made him sufficiently feminine to carry a child. With his permission, the doctors publicize this event, and he becomes a model for a maternity clothing company creating a new line of paternity clothes. The majority of the film covers Marco revealing his pregnancy to his friends and family including his ex-wife and their reacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
