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Serge Riaboukine
Serge Riaboukine (born 29 December 1957) is a French actor. Theatre Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Riaboukine, Serge 1957 births Living people French male film actors French male television actors French people of Russian descent 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors People from Givors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabourg Film Festival
The Cabourg Film Festival (french: Festival du Film de Cabourg – Journées romantiques or simply ) is an annual film festival held every June in Cabourg, France. Founded in 1983 by writer-journalist Gonzague Saint Bris, the festival is dedicated to films in the romantic genre and films with elements of romanticism. Awards Competition * Feature film ** Grand Prix * Short film ** Best Short Film ** Best Director ** Best Actress ** Best Actor Panorama * Audience Award (Prix du Public) Premiers Rendez-vous * Prix Premier Rendez-Vous Jeunesse * Youth Jury Prize (Prix de la Jeunesse) Ciné Swann * Best Feature Film (Swann d'Or du meilleur long-métrage) * Best Director (Swann d'Or du meilleur réalisateur de long-métrage) * Best Actress (Swann d'Or de la meilleure actrice) * Best Actor (Swann d'Or du meilleur acteur) * Female Revelation (Swann d'Or de la Révélation féminine) * Male Revelation (Swann d'Or de la Révélation masculine) * Coup de Cœur 2000 edition Featu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan (born Françoise Delphine Quoirez; 21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004) was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – '' Bonjour Tristesse'' (1954) – which was written when she was a teenager. Biography Early life and career Sagan was born on 21 June 1935 in Cajarc, Lot, and spent her early childhood in Lot, surrounded by animals, a passion that stayed with her throughout her life. Nicknamed 'Kiki', she was the youngest child of bourgeois parents – her father a company director, and her mother the daughter of landowners. Her family spent World War II (1939–1945) in the Dauphiné, then in the Vercors. Her paternal great-grandmother was Russian from Saint Petersburg. The family had a home in the prosperous 17th arrondissement of Paris, to which they returned after the war. Sagan was expelled from her fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Pierson
Claude Pierson (17 November 1930 – 19 March 1997) (also known as Caroline Joyce, Carolyne Joyce, Carolyn Joyce, Andrée Marchand, André Marchand and Paul Martin) was a French film director, writer and producer. His most famous film is ''Justine de Sade'' (1972), with Alice Arno in the lead role, the most faithful adaptation of the famous work of the Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer famous for his literary depictions of a libertine sexuality as well as numerous accusat .... References External links * 1930 births 1997 deaths French film directors French film producers 20th-century French screenwriters Writers from Paris French pornographic film directors {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoîte Groult
Benoîte Groult (31 January 1920 – 20 June 2016) was a French journalist, writer, and feminist activist. Life and career Groult was born on 31 January 1920 in Paris. She was the daughter of André Groult and Nicole Poiret, sister of Paul Poiret and herself a fashion designer, and was raised in the Parisian upper class. Groult attended the Sorbonne, where she studied Latin and Greek. After her studies in literature ended in 1953, she worked as a journalist for television. Before publishing her own book in 1972, she co-wrote three books with her younger sister Flora. On her own she eventually published twenty novels and numerous essays on feminism. Because Benoîte Groult was a feminist, her novels often deal with topics such as the history of feminism, the discrimination of women and misogyny. Her novel ''Les vaisseaux du cœur'', published in 1988, was called pornographic by some because of its explicit sexual depictions. It was filmed by Andrew Birkin in 1992 as '' Salt on O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt On Our Skin
'' Salt on Our Skin'' is a 1992 erotic romantic drama film, directed by Andrew Birkin, starring Greta Scacchi and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film is based on Benoîte Groult’s novel ''Les vaisseaux du coeur'' published in 1988. The plot follows the passionate relationship between mismatched lovers, a Parisian intellectual woman and a Scottish fisherman, brought together by lust. Their passionate encounters over 30 years make both their lives worth living. Scacchi and D'Onofrio were a real life couple at that time. Plot On the death of her lover, George McEwan, a half French/half Scottish woman, recounts in flashback her passionate relationship with Gavin McCall, a humble fisherman. Their romance goes back in time more than thirty years. In the 1950s, George, then a vivacious young woman living in France, comes to Scotland to spend her long summer vacation with her younger sister, Frédérique. While helping the locals take in the straw, she meets an attractive and simple man Gavin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Shepard
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play ''Buried Child'' and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film ''The Right Stuff (film), The Right Stuff''. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. ''New York (magazine), New York'' magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the absurdism of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simpatico (play)
''Simpatico'' is a play by American playwright Sam Shepard. It opened at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York on the night of 14 November 1994. In 1999, it was adapted for the screen in the film '' Simpatico'' starring Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Catherine Keener, and Albert Finney. In the Fall of 2017, following the death of Sam Shepard that July, ''Simpatico'' was presented at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey by A Red Orchid Theatre of Chicago, and directed by Dado. The cast was Michael Shannon, Guy Van Swearingen, Mierka Girten, John Judd, Kristen E. Ellis and Jennifer Engstrom. Plot As youths in Azusa, California, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. The story jumps ahead for twenty years, when Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Joss Buckley
David Joss Buckley (born 17 June 1948) is a British screenwriter, playwright, author, actor, and musician. A BAFTA-nominated screenwriter, Buckley has written many hours of television drama, including episodes of ''Emmerdale'' (1989–1996), ''EastEnders,'' ''Rosemary & Thyme'', '' Down To Earth'', ''Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married'' and ''Casualty''. He was an associate producer and lead writer for ''A Mind to Kill''. He co-wrote series 1 of BBC 4's ''Hinterland'' His most recent TV work is an 8-part series entitled "Cold Courage" adapted from books by Finnish author Pekka Hiltunen. The series screened in Nordic territories in Spring, 2020. He has also written for radio, for pantomimes, and has authored published books. Biography Early work Prior to his writing career Buckley was an actor, performing in London's West End and at the Royal National Theatre, the Young Vic Theatre and the Old Vic Theatre. He also appeared in ''The Professionals'' and ''Rock Follies''. Writing He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Claiborne
''Dolores Claiborne'' () is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by Stephen King. The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King novel, it has no chapters, double-spacing between paragraphs, or other section breaks; thus, the text is a single continuous narrative, which reads like the transcription of a spoken monologue. It was the best-selling novel of 1992 in the United States. The story introduced the fictional community of Little Tall Island, which Stephen King later used as the setting for the original TV mini-series '' Storm of the Century''. The novel was highly successful in 1992 and received overall positive reviews. It led to a successful 1995 movie adaptation starring Kathy Bates that ''Time'' named among the top 10 greatest Stephen King film adaptations in 2013. A two-act opera adaptation premiered in San Francisco in 2013, followed by a new version of the same opera in 2017. Plot summary Dolores Claiborne, an opinionated 65-year-old widow li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Michel Ribes
Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had directed ''Merci Bernard'' and since 1988 works on ''Palace''. In 2008, Ribes had directed ''Batailles'' which he co-wrote with Roland Topor and next year became a director of the ''Un garçon impossible'', a play by Petter S. Rosenlund and 's ''Les Diablogues''. In 2010, in Théâtre du Rond-Point he directed ''Les Nouvelles Brèves de Comptoir'' in which Jean-Marie Gourio had starred. In 2011, he wrote and directed ''René l’énervé - Opéra bouffe et tumultueux'', on the music by Reinhardt Wagner. A year later, he returned to Théâtre du Rond-Point at which he directed play ''Théâtre sans animaux'' and Sébastien Thiéry's '' L’Origine du Monde'' in 2013. Theater Filmography *1978: '' The Swindle'' *1986: ''La galette du roi'' *199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Gourio
Jean-Marie Gourio (born 1956) is a French novelist, humorist and screenwriter. He was born in Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne. He won early fame for his column ''Brèves de comptoir'', published in the satirical magazine ''Hara-Kiri''. Compilations of the columns were published annually, and even adapted for the stage. Gourio has written several novels, starting with his debut novel ''Autopsie d’un nain'' (1987). His 1998 novel ''Chut!'' was widely praised and won several literary prizes. Cinema Some of his book had been adapted into film. * 2005 : '' La vie est à nous !'', directed by Gérard Krawczyk (adapted from ''L'eau des fleurs'' In 2014, he write the screenplay of '' Brèves de comptoir'' with Jean-Michel Ribes Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had directed .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brèves De Comptoir
''Brèves de comptoir'' (''Counter brief'') is a 2014 French ensemble comedy directed by Jean-Michel Ribes. Plot The life of a small cafe in the suburbs, Swallow, it opened at six in the morning until closing. Cast * Chantal Neuwirth as The boss * Didier Bénureau as The boss * Régis Laspalès as Mussel * Yolande Moreau as Madame Lamelle * Valérie Mairesse as Madame Pelton * André Dussollier as The politician * François Morel as Pivert * Michel Fau as The writer * Laurent Stocker as Monsieur Laroque * Philippe Chevallier as Monsieur Latour * Samir Guesmi as Couss * Daniel Russo as Jacky * Laurent Gamelon as Rubens * Dominique Pinon as A taxi * Grégory Gadebois as A taxi * India Hair as The greedy woman * Bruno Solo as Bolo * Alexie Ribes as Gigi * Michelle Bréant as Virginie * Marcel Philippot as Monsieur Rabier * Annie Grégorio as The postwoman * Olivier Saladin as Pulmoll * Dioucounda Koma as Dakar * Dominique Besnehard as Chorister * Alban Casterman as Monsieur Jean * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
