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Mag Bodard
Mag Bodard (3 January 1916 – 26 February 2019) was an Italian-born French film producer, known for ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'', ''Donkey Skin'', and ''The Young Girls of Rochefort''. Life Bodard was born in Turin as Margherita Maria Renata Perato. She was a journalist working for women's magazine ''Elle'' before going into film producing. In 1962 she married the reporter Lucien Bodard, whom she had met in southeast Asia, and the two subsequently moved to Paris. Through his contacts she became an editor for the newspaper ''France-Soir,'' where she began an affair with its owner Pierre Lazareff. Bodard's first film was '' The Dance'' in 1962. Two years later she produced the musical ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'', which won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was also nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy. Bodard would go on to produce several dozen more films and worked with renowned directors such as Agnès Varda on Le Bonheur, Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mag Bodard (1972)
Mag Bodard (3 January 1916 – 26 February 2019) was an Italian-born French film producer, known for ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'', '' Donkey Skin'', and ''The Young Girls of Rochefort''. Life Bodard was born in Turin as Margherita Maria Renata Perato. She was a journalist working for women's magazine '' Elle'' before going into film producing. In 1962 she married the reporter Lucien Bodard, whom she had met in southeast Asia, and the two subsequently moved to Paris. Through his contacts she became an editor for the newspaper ''France-Soir,'' where she began an affair with its owner Pierre Lazareff. Bodard's first film was '' The Dance'' in 1962. Two years later she produced the musical ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'', which won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was also nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy. Bodard would go on to produce several dozen more films and worked with renowned directors such as Agnès Varda on Le Bonheur, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Or Three Things I Know About Her
''Two or Three Things I Know About Her'' (french: Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle) is a 1967 French New Wave film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, one of three features he completed that year. As with the other two (''La Chinoise'' and '' Weekend''), it is considered both socially and stylistically radical. ''Village Voice'' critic Amy Taubin considers the film to be among the greatest achievements in filmmaking. Description The film does not tell a story so much as present an essay-like study of Godard's view of contemporary life; Godard wrote that "I wanted to include everything: sports, politics, even groceries. Everything should be put in a film." Godard narrates the film in a whispered voiceover in which he discusses his fears about the contemporary world, including those related to the Vietnam War. The film frequently cuts to various still shots of bright consumer products and ongoing construction. As with many of Godard's works, the film does not follow th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin (1968 Film)
''Benjamin'' (original title: ''Benjamin ou les Mémoires d'un puceau''; U.S title: ''The Diary of an Innocent Boy'') is a 1968 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville who co-wrote the screenplay with Nina Companéez. Plot In the eighteenth century, seventeen-year-old virgin Benjamin comes with his old servant to stay at the estate of his aunt, Countess de Valandry, who is having an affair with Count Philippe. Benjamin is pursued by various women, including the beautiful Anne, who really loves Philippe. Cast *Michèle Morgan as Countess de Valandry. *Catherine Deneuve as Anne *Pierre Clémenti as Benjamin *Michel Piccoli as Count Philippe *Francine Bergé as Marion * Anna Gaël as Célestine *Catherine Rouvel as Victorine *Jacques Dufilho as Camille *Odile Versois as Married woman Production Filming began in June 1967. The day before filming began, Catherine Deneuve's sister and fellow actress Françoise Dorléac had died in a car accident. "It was a painful time in my lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happiness (1965 Film)
''Le Bonheur'' ("Happiness") is a 1965 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda. The film is associated with the French New Wave and won two awards at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival, including the Jury Grand Prix. Plot François, a handsome young joiner working for his uncle, lives a comfortable and happy life married to his pretty wife Thérèse, a dressmaker, with whom he has two delightful children, Pierrot and Gisou. The family love outings to the woods outside of town. Although finding abundant happiness in his life and indisputably loving his wife and children, François falls for Émilie, an attractive single woman working in the post office, who has a flat of her own and looks very like Thérèse. Picnicking in the woods one weekend, Thérèse asks François why he seems so particularly happy of late. He explains that all his existing happiness with her and the children is not changed in any way but has been increased by the new happiness he has found with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website since 19 December 1995, and is often the only French newspaper easily obtainable in non-French-speaking countries. It is considered one of the French newspapers of record, along with '' Libération'', and ''Le Figaro''. It should not be confused with the monthly publication '' Le Monde diplomatique'', of which ''Le Monde'' has 51% ownership, but which is editorially independent. A Reuters Institute poll in 2021 in France found that "''Le Monde'' is the most trusted national newspaper". ''Le Monde'' was founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residential neighbourhoods, as well as many corporate headquarters and a handful of foreign embassies. It is the wealthiest and most expensive suburb of Paris. Together with the 16th and 7th arrondissement of Paris, the town of Neuilly-sur-Seine forms the most affluent and prestigious residential area in the whole of France. It has the 2nd highest average household income in France, at €112,504 per year (in 2020). History Originally Pont de Neuilly was a small hamlet under the jurisdiction of Villiers, a larger settlement mentioned in medieval sources as early as 832 and now absorbed by the commune of Levallois-Perret. It was not until 1222 that the little settlement of Neuilly, established on the banks of the Seine, was mentioned for the first t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Wiazemsky
Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017) was a French actress and novelist. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's ''Au Hasard Balthazar'' (1966), and went on to appear in several of Jean-Luc Godard's films, among them ''La Chinoise'' (1967), '' Week End'' (1967), and '' One Plus One'' (1968). Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of novelist and dramatist François Mauriac. Early life Wiazemsky was born on 14 May 1947 in Berlin, Germany. Her father Yvan Wiazemsky, a French diplomat, was a Russian prince who had emigrated to France following the Russian Revolution. Her mother Claire Mauriac was the daughter of François Mauriac, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wiazemsky spent her early years abroad following her father's postings around the world, including Geneva and Caracas before returning to Paris in 1962. She graduated from the high school Ecole Sainte Marie de Passy in Paris. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Miller
Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Life and career Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the ''Service Cinéma de l'Armée''. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard. His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and ''La meilleure façon de marcher'' (''The Best Way to Walk'', 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's ''Les Mistons'' (1957) and ''The 400 Blows'' (1959). Miller received César nominations for best director and writing for this film. His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, many even using the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Companeez
Nina Companeez (26 August 1937 – 9 April 2015) was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela. Companeez was a long time collaborator of Michel Deville.Françoise Audé ''Ciné-modèles cinéma d'elles.: Situations de femmes dans le cinéma'' 1981 Page 77 " ichel Deville.. Il ne se lance alors pas seul dans l'aventure : avec lui, une scénariste-dialoguiste brillante, Nina Companeez. Elle est la fille de Jacques Companeez qui fut le scénariste de Jacques Becker. Elle est, en outre, monteuse." She wrote for 29 films and television shows. In April 2015, she died at the age of 77. Selected filmography Writer * '' Tonight or Never'' (1961) * '' Adorable Liar'' (1962) * ''Because, Because of a Woman'' (1963) * ''Girl's Apartment'' (1963) * ''Lucky Jo'' (1964) * ''Martin Soldat'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Pialat
Maurice Pialat (; 31 August 1925 – 11 January 2003) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor known for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films. His work is often described as " realist",Maurice Pialat: A Cinema of Surrender at though many film criticsTribute to Maurice Pialat at acknowledge i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Je T'aime, Je T'aime
''Je t'aime, je t'aime'' ("I Love You, I Love You") is a 1968 French science fiction film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Jacques Sternberg. The plot centres on Claude Ridder (Claude Rich) who is asked to participate in a mysterious experiment in time travel when he leaves the hospital after a suicide attempt. The experiment, intended to return him after one minute of observing the past, instead causes him to experience his past in a disjointed fashion. The film was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the countrywide wildcat strike that occurred in May 1968 in France. While seldom ranked among Resnais's best works, ''Je t'aime, je t'aime'' has received positive reviews since its release. Its synopsis has been cited as an influence on the 2004 Michel Gondry film ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind''. Plot Claude Ridder (Claude Rich) is leaving hospital after an attempt at suicide by shooting himself throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais (; 3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included ''Night and Fog'' (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.Ephraim Katz, ''The International Film Encyclopedia''. (London: Macmillan, 1980.) p. 966–967. Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959), ''Last Year at Marienbad'' (1961), and '' Muriel'' (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past. These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave (''la nouvelle vague''), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. He had closer links to the "Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
