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Park Benches
''Park Benches'' (french: Bancs Publics (Versailles rive droite)) is a 2009 French film directed by Bruno Podalydès, with an all-star cast. Plot ''Bancs Publics'' tells the story of a lonely man, observed by employees from an office across the street, onlookers from the Square des Francines, and clients in the Brico-Dream shop. Cast * Ridan as The singer * Denis Podalydès as Aimé Mermot * Samir Guesmi as Romain * Bruno Podalydès as Bretelle * Laure Calamy as Opportune * Olivier Gourmet as Maurice Begeard * Chantal Lauby as Pascale * Hippolyte Girardot as Framework #1 * Michel Vuillermoz as Framework #2 * Josiane Balasko as Solange Renivelle * Éric Prat as The building inhabitant * Thierry Lhermitte as The medecin * Micheline Dax as The philosopher neighbor * Bernard Campan as The suspicious neighbor * Julie Depardieu as The suspicious neighbor's wife * Pierre Arditi as Monsieur Borelly * Claude Rich as The backgammon player #1 * Michel Aumont as The backgammon player #2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Podalydès
Bruno Podalydès (born 11 March 1961) is a French writer, film director, producer and actor. His brother Denis Podalydès Denis Podalydès (born 22 April 1963) is a French actor and scriptwriter of Greek descent. Podalydès has appeared in more than 140 films and television shows since 1989. He starred in '' The Officers' Ward'', which was entered into the 2001 Can ... is also an actor. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Podalydes, Bruno 1961 births Living people People from Versailles 21st-century French male actors French film directors French male film actors 20th-century French male actors French male screenwriters French screenwriters French film producers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Arditi
Pierre Arditi (born 1 December 1944) is a French actor. He is the brother of French actress Catherine Arditi. Life and career Born in Paris, his father was the painter Georges Arditi, from Marseille of Jewish descent, and his mother Yvonne Leblicq was Belgian from Brussels. In 1987 he won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in '' Mélo'', and in 1994, a César Award for Best Actor for his role in ''Smoking/No Smoking''. Although his work has primarily been in French film and theater, Arditi is known in the Anglophone world as the French voice of Christopher Reeve. Arditi dubbed Christopher Reeve on the French-language version of the three first Superman films by Richard Donner and Richard Lester. Because of the added footage in the DVD Special Edition of Donner's ''Superman'', the film had to be re-dubbed with a different voice actor. He also provided the French voice for Reeve in the comedy/whodunit '' Deathtrap''. He was the voice of the docume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Légitimus
Pascal Légitimus (born 13 March 1959) is a French actor, comedian and theatre director. He is a member of the famous French humour band Les Inconnus Les Inconnus ("The Unknowns") are a French trio of humourists consisting of Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus. While their first successes were on stage, they are most famous for their satirical sketch comedy television show .... Personal life He is the son of an Armenian theater seamstress, Madeleine Kambourian, and of an Antillean actor, Théo Légitimus. He is also the grandson of Martinican comedian Darling Légitimus and the nephew of television producer Gésip Légitimus.Martinique Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette - 2011 -- Page 34 "Pascal Légitimus Né le 13 mars 1959 à Paris, il est le fils d'une famille d'artistes. Comédien de théâtre... En 2010, Pascal Légitimus joue au côté de Mathilda May dans Plus si affinités, une pièce qu'il a lui-même écrite. Daniel Picouly Daniel..." Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guilaine Londez
Guilaine Londez (born 1 January 1965) is a French film actress. She has appeared in more than sixty films since 1991. Filmography Theater References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Londez, Guilaine 1965 births Living people French film actresses French television actresses French stage actresses 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses People from Saint-Gilles, Gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Candelier
Isabelle Candelier (born 12 June 1963) is a French film and television actress 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 (), lite .... Biography Isabelle Candelier made her stage debut at the Montpellier Conservatory under Michel Touraille, then continued her training in Paris at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique. From 1986, she worked in theaters directed by Jacques Nichet and Jean-Pierre Vincent. On stage, she met Michel Vuillermoz and the brothers Denis and Bruno Podalydès. It was the start of a fruitful collaboration, and when Bruno Podalydès moved on to directing for the cinema, Isabelle Candelier was naturally included in the cast of most of his films: from the short film Versailles Rive-Gauche in 1992 to Bécassine in 2018, including Dieu seul me voit ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élie Semoun
Élie Semoun (born Élie Semhoun on 16 October 1963) is a French comedian, actor, director, writer and singer. Life and career Élie Semoun was born in France, to a Sephardic Jewish family of Moroccan-Jewish and Algerian-Jewish descent. In 1980 at the age of 17, Semoun wrote two collections of poems and two plays. Beginning in 1988, he had regular appearances on the television series '' Vivement lundi!'' on TF1, where he played a horse mounted on rollers. His comedy career began in 1990 with his partner Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, with whom he wrote and performed daring, skits with scathing takes generally taboo subjects such as racism and poverty, often playing up contrasts between himself and his partner in terms of origin, color, and religion. Their first show was held at Café de la Gare in 1991. The duo acquired a certain notoriety in 1992 after several appearances on their fellow comedian Arthur's show ''Emission Impossible'', where they were noticed for their particular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuelle Devos
Emmanuelle Devos (born 10 May 1964) is a French actress. She is the daughter of actress Marie Henriau. She won the César Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in ''Sur mes lèvres'', directed by Jacques Audiard. She has also been nominated further three times for the award. She was a member of the Jury for the Main Competition section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival The 65th Cannes Film Festival was held from 16 to 27 May 2012. Italian film director Nanni Moretti was the President of the Jury for the main competition and British actor Tim Roth was the President of the Jury for the Un Certain Regard section. .... Filmography Awards and nominations References External links * Emmanuelle Devos - uniFrance* {{DEFAULTSORT:Devos, Emmanuelle 1964 births Living people French film actresses Best Actress César Award winners Best Supporting Actress César Award winners Best Actress Lumières Award winners People from Puteaux 20th-century French a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiara Mastroianni
Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni (born 28 May 1972) is a French actress and singer. She is the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. Early life Mastroianni was born to French actress Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni. Her parents were both married to other people at the time of their affair and stayed together for four years, separating in 1975, when Chiara was two years old. She later revealed that she could not recall them being together: "I've never seen my parents together, never in my whole life. They split when I was two, so I've no recollection of them as a couple. I've never even seen them kiss except in the movies." Mastroianni has two half-siblings, a brother, Christian Vadim, from her mother's relationship with director Roger Vadim, and a sister, Barbara Mastroianni, from her father's marriage to actress Flora Carabella. Carabella is rumoured to have offered to adopt Mastroianni and raise her with her older sister as both her paren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Elmosnino
Éric Elmosnino (born 2 May 1964) is a French actor and musician. He is known internationally for portraying Serge Gainsbourg in '' Gainsbourg'', for which he won the César Award for Best Actor. He studied at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. After leaving the Conservatory, he worked at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers with Jean-Pierre Vincent. In 1992 he played Christian Ribet, a friend of Guillaume de Tonquédec, in the film ''Tableau d'honneur'' (Honour Roll) by Charles Nemes. In 2006, he played in the theater as Edward Bond, directed by Alain Francon, at the Avignon Festival and the Théâtre de la Colline in Paris. In January 2008, he performed in a show at the Theatre Antoine in Paris for Yasmina Reza's ''God of Carnage''. Early life Elmosnino was born in the Paris suburbs to a Sephardic Jewish ( Moroccan-Jewish) father who was an industrial designer at Thomson CSF, and to an Alsatian mother who left EDF EDF may refer to: Organisations * Eclaireurs de France, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric (; born 25 October 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film ''Quantum of Solace'', in which he played the lead villain, Steven Spielberg's ''Munich (2005 film), Munich'', Wes Anderson's ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' and ''The French Dispatch'', and for his lead performance in ''The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'', for which he drew critical acclaim. He has also won several César Awards and the Lumières Award. Early life Amalric was born on 25 October 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, the son of journalists Nicole Zand, a literary critic for ''Le Monde'', and Jacques Amalric, who worked as a foreign affairs editor for ''Le Monde'' and ''Libération''. Amalric's father was French, while his mother was born in Poland, to Jewish parents, and moved to France at the outbreak of World War II. Career Amalric first gained fame in the film ''My Sex L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Elbaz
Vincent Elbaz (born 3 February 1971) is a French actor. He has appeared in many French television shows and films. His first major role was in the 1994 film '' Le péril jeune''. Elbaz received the 1998 Jean Gabin Prize. Elbaz was born in Paris to a Moroccan Jewish family. He is married to Fanny Conquy, with whom he has two children. Filmography * 1994 : '' Le Péril jeune'', by Cédric Klapisch * 1995 : '' Le Plus bel âge...'', by Didier Haudepin * 1996 : '' Enfants de salaud'', by Tonie Marshall * 1996 : '' Je m'appelle Régine'', by Pierre Aknine (TV) * 1997 : ''Just Do It'', by Frédéric Chèze & Denis Thybaud (Short Film) * 1997 : '' Les Randonneurs'', by Philippe Harel * 1997 : ''La Vérité si je mens !'', by Thomas Gilou * 1997 : '' Petits Désordres amoureux'', by Olivier Péray * 1998 : '' Grève party'', by Fabien Onteniente * 1999 : '' Suzy vend des sushis'', by Delphine Quentin (Short Film) * 1999 : ''Quasimodo d'El Paris'', by Patrick Timsit * 1999 : '' Le S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Garcia
Nicole Garcia (born 22 April 1946) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film '' Charlie Says'' was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Her film ''Going Away'' was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. She was the President of the Jury for the Caméra d'Or section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival The 67th Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2014. New Zealand film director Jane Campion was the head of the jury for the main competition section. The Palme d'Or was awarded to the Turkish film '' Winter Sleep'' directed by Nuri Bi .... Her eldest son, Frédéric Bélier-Garcia, is a theatre director and writer. From her relationship with Jean Rochefort, she has a second son, the actor Pierre Rochefort. Filmography As actress As filmmaker References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia, Nicole 1946 births Living people French women film directors French film actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
