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Riches, Belles, Etc.
''Riches, belles, etc. '' (also known as ''Riches, belles et cruelles'') is a 1998 French comedy film written and directed by Bunny Schpoliansky and starring Lola Naymark, Claudia Cardinale and Marisa Berenson. Plot During her rich and famous mother's absence, a little girl, alone in a big hotel, tries to understand what being a woman means by interviewing various women... Cast * Lola Naymark as Rose * Claudia Cardinale as Baroness Mitsy * Marisa Berenson as Alizéa * Anouk Aimée as la fée * Sonia Rykiel as Hortense * Gisèle Casadesus as Rosalinde * Claire Maurier as The tawny woman * Emilie Brigand as Laëtitia * Jay Alexander as Jay * Hermine de Clermont-Tonnerre as Alma * Tasha Mota e Cunha as Ines * Alexandra Kamp as la dormeuse * Bunny Schpoliansky as Lilas * Maria Cristina Mastrangeli as la gouvernante * Firmine Richard as l'embaumeuse * Isabelle Tanakil as l'Espagnole * Urbain Cancelier Urbain Cancelier (born 2 August 1959) is a French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Naymark
Lola Naymark (born 5 April 1987) is a French film and television actress, writer and director.Pallister & Hottell p.45 In 2005 she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in ''A Common Thread'' but lost to Sara Forestier. Selected filmography * ''Riches, belles, etc.'' (1998) * ''Monsieur Ibrahim'' (2003) * ''A Common Thread ''A Common Thread'' (''Brodeuses'') is a 2004 French film directed by . The film is known as ''Sequins'' in the United States. The film won "Critics Week Grand Prize" and "SACD Screenwriting Award" at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It is also nom ...'' (2004) * ''The Army of Crime'' (2009) * ''Brèves de comptoir'' (2014) * ''Au fil d'Ariane'' [''Ariane's Thread''] (2014) * ''Casanova Variations'' (2014) * ''Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad'' (2015) * ''Gloria Mundi (film), Gloria Mundi'' (2019) * ''Le Tigre et le Président'' (2022) References Bibliography * Janis L. Pallister & Ruth A. Hottell. ''Noteworthy Francophone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Casadesus
Gisèle Casadesus (14 June 1914 – 24 September 2017) was a French actress, who appeared in numerous theatre and film productions. She was an honorary member of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and ''Grand-Croix'' of the National Order of Merit. In a career spanning more than 80 years, Casadesus appeared in more than a dozen films after turning 90. Life and career Born into a family of artists in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, Gisèle was the daughter of musician, composer and conductor Henri Casadesus and harpist Marie-Louise Beetz, her older brother was actor Christian Casadesus. After receiving first prize in acting at French National Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of twenty, Casadeus joined the Comédie-Française in 1934. The same year, she married the actor Lucien Pascal (born Lucien Probst), with whom she had four children: Jean-Claude (1935), Martine (1939), Bà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Films
The year 1998 in film involved many significant films, including '' Shakespeare in Love'' (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), '' Saving Private Ryan'','' Armageddon'' (which was the top grossing film of the year in the United States), '' American History X'', '' The Truman Show'', ''Primary Colors'', '' ''Rushmore'''', ''Rush Hour'', '' There's Something About Mary'', '' The Big Lebowski'', and Terrence Malick's directorial return in '' The Thin Red Line''. DreamWorks SKG released its first two animated films: '' Antz'' and ''The Prince of Egypt''. The ''Pokémon'' theatrical film series started with '' Pokémon: The First Movie''. Warner Bros. Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary. The year saw two dueling science-fiction disaster films about asteroids, '' Armageddon'' and ''Deep Impact'', becoming box office success, with ''Armageddon'' becoming the more popular of the two. It was also the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide. Highest-grossing films The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Comedy Films
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The '' Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain Cancelier
Urbain Cancelier (born 2 August 1959) is a French comedian and actor, primarily known for his collaborations with French film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Jean-Pierre Jeunet (; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. His films combine fantasy, realism and science fiction to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations. Debuting as a di ..., and for playing Collignon in '' Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain''. Theater Filmography References External links * CinEmotions.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Cancelier, Urbain Living people 1959 births French male film actors French male television actors 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors Male actors from Paris French male stage actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmine Richard
Firmine Richard (born 25 September 1947 Pointe-à -Pitre, Guadeloupe, France) is a French actress. Her film credits include ''8 Women'' and ''Hunting and Gathering''. Personal life In February 2009, Richard took part in demonstrations in Paris in support of the 2009 French Caribbean general strikes in Guadeloupe and Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in th .... Theater Filmography References External links * 1947 births Living people People from Pointe-à -Pitre Guadeloupean actors French film actresses French television actresses French people of Guadeloupean descent European Film Award for Best Actress winners Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite 20th-century French actresses 21st-century Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Kamp
Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld (born 29 December 1966) is a German model and actress. Biography She was born in Karlsruhe to Peter Kamp and his wife and grew up in Baden-Baden. She visited drama schools in New York, Los Angeles and Paris before she started her career as an actress in 1994. She has had many star and supporting roles in German movies and TV series and some in Hollywood B-movies. In 1998, she acted together with Claudia Cardinale in ''Riches, belles, etc.'', in 2001 with Leslie Nielsen in '' 2001: A Space Travesty'' and in 2003 she played the star role in '' Sumuru'' together with Michael Shanks in an English-South African co-production. In 2007 she appeared as a covergirl on the German issue of the Playboy. Alexandra is the spokeswoman for the children's hospital "Kinderhospiz St. Nikolaus" in the Bavarian Alps, which gives a care home to terminally ill children and their parents. She frequently gives charity readings. Filmography *''Alle lieben Julia'' (1994, TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Alexander
Jay Alexander (born April 10, 1968) is an American magician and comedian known as a corporate and society entertainer. He has appeared on ''The Today Show'', '' Good Morning America'' and MTV, and also on many local morning shows. In the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', David Lazarus wrote, "One of the highest-paid, and busiest, performers on the Bay Area corporate circuit is magician Jay Alexander . . ."Lazarus, David (December 4, 1999)Corporate Entertainers - The New Vaudeville Circuit ''San Francisco Chronicle'' Alexander creates customized shows for Fortune 500 companies and is a consultant and co-author of several magic books. Alexander is also the host of ''Learn the Art of Magic'', a CD-ROM that introduces 26 different magic tricks.Barnabel, Josh (August 4, 1996). Nothing Up My Sleeve! The Magic of Teaching. ''New York Times'' At the age of fourteen, he became the youngest recipient of the Society of American Magicians' Gold Medal of Honor. His clients have included Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Maurier
Claire Maurier (born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon; March 27, 1929) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 90 films since 1947. Life and career Maurier was born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon on March 27, 1929 in the French commune of Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region, which is in the southwest of France. She started her acting career in small film roles at the end of the 1940s. Her first 'main' role came when she portrayed Gilberte Doinel, the mother of the main character in François Truffaut's 1959 film ''The 400 Blows''. Another notable early role of hers was as Christiane Colombey, the bigamist wife of the main character in the 1963 film '' La Cuisine au beurre''. In 1978, she had a notable role in Édouard Molinaro's film '' La Cage aux Folles'' as Simone. In 1981, she was nominated the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ''A Bad Son''. She played Madeleine, a seductive older woman. In 2001, she gained international recognition w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel (; ; 25 May 1930 – 25 August 2016) was a French fashion designer and writer. She created the Poor Boy Sweater, which was featured on the cover of French ''Elle'' magazine. Her knitwear designs and new fashion techniques led her to be dubbed the "Queen of Knits". The Sonia Rykiel label was founded in 1968, upon the opening of her first store, making clothing, accessories, and fragrances. Rykiel was also a writer, and her first book was published in 1979. In 2012, Rykiel revealed that she was suffering from Parkinson's disease. She died from complications of the disease on 25 August 2016. Early and personal life Sonia Flis was born to Jewish parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 25 May 1930. Her mother was from Poland, and her father was a watchmaker from Romania. She was the eldest of five sisters. In 1948, at the age of 17, she was employed to dress the window displays in a Parisian textile store, the Grande Maison de Blanc. In 1953, Sonia married Sam Rykiel, owner of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Cardinale
Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (; born 15 April 1938) is an Italian actress. She has starred in some of the most iconic European films of the 1960s and 1970s, acting in Italian, French, and English. Born and raised in La Goulette, a neighbourhood of Tunis, Cardinale won the "Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia" competition in 1957, the prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts, due above all to the involvement of Franco Cristaldi, who acted as her mentor for a number of years and later married her. After making her debut in a minor role with the Egyptian star Omar Sharif in ''Goha'' (1958), Cardinale became one of the best-known actresses in Italy with roles in films such as ''Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960), ''Girl with a Suitcase'' (1961), ''Cartouche (film), Cartouche'' (1962), ''The Leopard (1963 film), The Leopard'' (1963), and Federico Fellini, Fellini's ''8½'' (1963). From 1963, Cardinale appeared in ''The Pink Panther (1963 film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
