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Nicolas Vaude
Nicolas Vaude (born 24 July 1962) is a French actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li .... Filmography Theater External links * 1962 births Living people French male film actors French male stage actors French male television actors {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molière Award
The Molière Award recognises achievement in live French theatre and is the national theatre award of France. The awards are presented and decided by the ''Association professionnelle et artistique du théâtre'' (APAT) and supported by the Ministry of Culture at an annual ceremony, called the Nuit des Molières ("Night of the Molières") in Paris. The awards are given for French productions and performances. The Molière Awards are considered the highest French theatre honour, the equivalent to the American Tony Award, the British Olivier Award and the Spanish Premios Max. The award was created by Georges Cravenne, who was also the creator of the César Award for cinema. The name of the award is an homage to the seventeenth-century French dramatist Molière. Awards by year and category 1987 Jury presided by Jean-Louis Barrault. Awards hosted by François Périer. * Best Actor - Philippe Clévenot, in ''Elvire Jouvet 40'' * Best Supporting Actor - Pierre Arditi, in ''La Ré ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brotherhood Of The Wolf
''Brotherhood of the Wolf'' (french: Le Pacte des loups) is a 2001 French period action horror film directed by Christophe Gans, co-written by Gans and Stéphane Cabel, and starring Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Émilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. The story takes place in 18th-century France, where the Chevalier de Fronsac and Mani of the Iroquois tribe are sent to investigate the mysterious slaughter of hundreds by an unknown creature in the province of Gévaudan. The plot is loosely based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and the famous legend of the beast of Gévaudan; parts of the film were shot at Château de Roquetaillade. The film has several extended swashbuckling fight scenes, with martial arts performances by the cast mixed in, making it unusual for a historical drama. The special effects for the creature are a combination of computer generated imagery, as well as puppetry and animatronics designed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conversations With My Gardener
''Conversations with My Gardener'' (french: Dialogue avec mon jardinier) is a 2007 French film directed by Jean Becker. Plot A painter returns from Paris to his childhood home in rural France. The painter notices that the house's once-impressive vegetable garden has fallen into neglect, and he advertises for a gardener to put it back into shape. The gardener who responds is a former schoolmate. The painter discovers the bucolic side of life and its beauty. Over the next several months, the two different men become friends through long conversations. Through the eyes of each other, they experience the world in a new light. The gardener's occasional stomach cramps is identified as cancer and soon he passes away. The painter takes the insights his friend has given him and shares them through an art exhibition. Cast * Daniel Auteuil - The painter "Dupinceau" * Jean-Pierre Darroussin : The gardener "Dujardin" * Fanny Cottençon : Hélène, the wife of "Dupinceau" * Élodie Navar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Tirard
Laurent Tirard (born 18 February 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter. Life and career Laurent Tirard grew up admiring American films, such as those by Steven Spielberg. He studied film making at New York University, worked as a script reader for Warner Bros. studios, then became a journalist and worked for the French film magazine ''Studio'' for six years. There, he conducted a series of interviews on film making which have been published as a book under the title ''Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors.'' From Woody Allen to David Cronenberg, the Coen brothers to Lars Von Trier, all film directors run up against the same essential concerns: how to direct actors, for example, or whether to pre-plan camera angles. In interviewing these and 16 other notable filmmakers, Tirard found notable affinities between seemingly dissimilar directors. The book has also been published in France, Canada, England, Italy, Spain and Brazil. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molière (2007 Film)
''Molière'' is a 2007 film by the French director Laurent Tirard and starring Romain Duris as Molière. It was released in Europe in January 2007 and in the United States in July 2007. It was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival where Fabrice Luchini won the Silver George for Best Actor. The screenplay was co-written by Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron. Plot The film begins in 1658, when the French actor and playwright returns to Paris with his theatrical troupe to perform in the theatre that the king's brother has given him. Most of the film is in the form of a flashback to 1645. Following an unsuccessful run as a tragic actor, Molière is released from debtor's prison by Monsieur Jourdain, a wealthy commoner with social pretensions, who agrees to pay the young actor's debts if Molière teaches him to act. Jourdain, a married man with two daughters, hopes to use this talent to ingratiate himself with Célimène, a recently widowed aristocrat with whom he has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Baudoin
Paul Baudouin (19 December 1894 – 10 February 1964) was a French banker who became a politician and Foreign Minister of France for the last six months of 1940. He was instrumental in arranging a cessation of hostilities between France and Germany in June that year, resulting in an Armistice. Early years Paul Baudouin was born into a wealthy family in Paris, and served as an artillery officer during World War I, The Great War in the French Army. In 1930 he became the Deputy Director and General Manager of the Banque de l'Indochine.Chan A "convinced Catholic", like many Catholics of the time he considered himself "non-political" although he had been a committed member of the militant nationalist movement ''Action Française''. He had also been a Catholic Scout leader in the years just prior to World War II, and had written a notable exhortation to young Christians for the ''Revue de jeunes''. He called for "the renaissance, in the humbler form of a layman's Order, of the chivalry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Grand Charles
''Le Grand Charles'' is a 2006 French television miniseries on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959, written and directed by Bernard Stora. Plot Cast * Bernard Farcy as Charles de Gaulle * Danièle Lebrun as Yvonne de Gaulle * David Ryall as Winston Churchill * Pascal Elso as Gaston Palewski * Hubert Saint-Macary as Michel Debré * Denis Podalydès as Claude Mauriac * Bernard Alane as Paul Ramadier * Nicolas Vaude as Paul Baudoin * Bernard Bloch as Jacques Foccart * Patrick Chesnais as Henri Giraud * Julien Boisselier as Jacques Chaban-Delmas * Thierry Hancisse as Olivier Guichard * Jacques Spiesser as Pierre Pflimlin * Robert Hardy as Franklin D. Roosevelt * Sam Spiegel as Gilbert Renault * Jean Dell as Pierre Billotte * Grégoire Oestermann as André Malraux * Scali Delpeyrat as Jacques Baumel * Pierre-François Dumeniaud as Jacques Soustelle * Gérard Lartigau as Paul Reynaud * Jean-Michel Molé as Vincent Auriol * Gilles David as André Philip * Stéphane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Brook (director)
Simon Brook is a British film director, mostly of documentaries. Simon Brook is the son of fellow director Peter Brook and the actress Natasha Parry. His sister is the actress and writer Irina Brook Irina Brook (born 5 April 1962) is a Franco-British stage director, producer, and actress. She was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2002 by the French Ministry of Culture. In May 2017 Brook was upgraded to Officier de l'ordre des Arts .... Selected filmography (as director) * ''The Unbearable Lightness Of Being'' (1988) - as assistant director * ''Minus One'' (1991) * ''Alice'' (1995) * ''L'amazone'' (1998) * ''Karos d'Éthiopie, les amoureux du fleuve'' (2001) * ''Brook by Brook'' (2002) * ''Cleopatra's Lost City'' (2003) * ''Jungle Magic'' (2005) * ''La légende vraie de la tour Eiffel'' (2005) * ''Generation 68'' (2008) * ''Annie Nightingale: Bird on the Wireless'' (2011) * ''Peter Brook: The Tightrope'' (2012) * ''Indian Summer'' (2013) * ''Hell Is Empty: All The Dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Fillières
Sophie Fillières (born 20 November 1964) is a French film director and screenwriter who has written for more than fifteen film and television productions since 1991. Filmography References External links * 1964 births Living people French film directors French women film directors Writers from Paris French women screenwriters French screenwriters {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvan Attal
Yvan is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Jacques-Yvan Morin, GOQ (born 1931), politician in Quebec, Canada *Marc-Yvan Côté (born 1947), former Quebec politician and Cabinet Minister for the Quebec Liberal Party *Maurice-Yvan Sicard (1910–2000), French journalist and far right political activist *Yvan Attal (born 1965), Israeli-born French actor and director *Yvan Bernier (born 1960), member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2000 *Yvan Blot (born 1948), French conservative political figure *Yvan Bordeleau (born 1942), the Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Quebec, Canada, for Acadie from 1989 to 2007 *Yvan Bourgis (born 1979), French football defender currently playing for Stade Brest 29 in the French Ligue 2 *Yvan Colonna, Corsican nationalist convicted of assassinating the prefect of Corsica, Claude Erignac on the February 6, 1998 *Yvan Cournoyer (born 1943), retired Canadian hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League *Yvan Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happily Ever After (2004 Film)
''Happily Ever After'' (french: Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants; Translation: ''They married and had many children'') is a 2004 French comedy drama film. The film is written and directed by Yvan Attal, produced by Claude Berri, and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal. It was released in English in North America. For English-speaking audiences, the film is highly recognizable for the lengthy cameo appearance of Johnny Depp, who speaks fluent French. The soundtrack also features Radiohead. Plot ''Happily Ever After'' dissects the viability of fidelity via the story of three buddies and their tumultuous relationships with the opposite sex. The film opens with the central characters, Vincent (Yvan Attal) and Gabrielle (Charlotte Gainsbourg) capriciously flirting in a bar. Vincent appears to win the affection of Gabrielle over many other potential courters, but the entire exercise is a ruse; they are actually married with a child. The rest of the film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-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 Malle on ''Zazie dans le métro'' in 1960 and '' Vie privée'' in 1961. In 1964, he was co-screenwriter for '' L'Homme de Rio'', which starred Jean-Paul Belmondo. The first film that he both wrote and directed was ''A Matter of Resistance'' in 1965. Although it was a great critical and popular success, he did not make another film until 1971, when he directed '' Les Mariés de l'an II'', again starring Belmondo and Marlène Jobert. Since 1975, Rappeneau has written only for his own films, including '' Le Sauvage'', starring Yves Montand and ' (1981), again with Montand, who co-starred with Isabelle Adjani. In 1990, Rappeneau directed a deluxe Technicolor film version of ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', his adaptation of the classic French play by Edmond Rostand, starring Gérard Depardieu. Rappeneau's film version i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
