|
Virgil (film)
''Virgil'' is a 2005 comedy drama film written and directed by French-Tunisian director Mabrouk El Mechri, his first feature film. It had its first public screening in movie theaters starting September 2005. The film is about the life of a French boxer in the French suburbs. Synopsis Every week, Virgil dreams of his father Ernest telling him about his earlier life as a boxer. And every week he dreams of a crossing glance from a young woman named Margot. This week, his father announces that he will finally come to see his son fight on the boxing ring. One problem: Virgil has not been boxing for the last three years. Cast * Jalil Lespert as Virgil * Léa Drucker as Margot * Jean-Pierre Cassel as Ernest * Philippe Nahon as Louis * Patrick Floersheim as Dunlopillo * Karim Belkhadra as Sid * Sami Zitouni as Kader * Jean-Marie Frin as Mario Taliori * Tomer Sisley as Dino Taliori * Jean-Luc Abel as Marcel * Marc Duret Marc Duret (born 28 September 1957 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabrouk El Mechri
Mabrouk el Mechri (born 18 September 1976) is a French director, screenwriter, and actor. Biography El Mechri was born in Versailles near Paris, France. He has directed a number of films. After his three shorts ''Mounir et Anita'', ''Generation Cutter'', and ''Concours de circonstance'', he directed his first long feature ''Virgil'' in 2005 about the life of a boxer, followed by a comedy entitled ''Stand Up!''. His 2008 movie entitled JCVD about Jean-Claude Van Damme and featuring him as the actor garnered Mabrouk El Mechri critical acclaim. The film, a comedy drama and at certain times biographical of Van Damme was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, 2008 Rome Film Festival (L'Altro Cinema), and the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival (Midnight Madness). He is now working on his new movie ''Sage femme'' (2008) featuring Vanessa Paradis. He was married to actress Audrey Dana, with whom he had a child in 2008. Until 2014 he was in a relationship with Virginie Efira with w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomer Sisley
Tomer Sisley (born Tomer Gazit; he, תומר סיסלי; born 14 August 1974) is an Israeli and French actor and comedian. Early and personal life Born in West Berlin, West Germany, to Israeli-born parents who had relocated for his father's job as a research scientist in dermatology. His mother is also a dermatologist. His parents met as schoolmates in Ramat Gan, Israel, and were childhood sweethearts. His father's family has roots in Lithuania and Belarus, while his mother is of Yemeni descent. His parents separated when he was five years old. At 9 years of age he left Berlin to live with his father in southern France, where his father was offered a position. He is fluent in German, Hebrew, French, and English. He attended an English-speaking school, and then attended the bi-lingual Centre international de Valbonne in Sophia Antipolis near Nice, France. Sisley resides in Paris with his family, and has taught Hebrew to his three children. He spends about a month a year in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 In Film
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Directorial Debuts
This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release. Many film makers have directed works which were not commercially released, for example early works by Orson Welles such as his filming of his stage production of ''Twelfth Night'' in 1933 or his experimental short film ''The Hearts of Age'' in 1934. Often these early works were not intended for commercial release either by intent, such as film school projects or inability to find distribution. Subsequently, many directors learnt their trade in the medium of television as it became popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Notable directors who did their first directorial work in this medium include Robert Altman, Norman Jewison, Sidney Lumet, and Alfonso Cuarón. As commercial television advertising became more cinematic in the 1960s and 1970s, many directors' early work was in this medium, including directors such as Alan Parker and Ridley S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalil Lespert
Jalil Lespert (born 11 May 1976) is a French actor, screenwriter and director. Life and career Born to an ethnic French (Pied-Noir) father, actor Jean Lespert, and an Algerian mother, who is an attorney and a jurist, Lespert first studied law, to please his mother. But he was more interested in acting. He married Sonia Rolland, a former Miss France, with whom he has one child named Kahina. He also has two other children, Jena and Aliosha, from a previous relationship. Lespert made his film debut in 1995, in Laurent Cantet's film '' Jeux de plage'', opposite his father. His first major role came in 1999, in Jacques Maillot's film '' Nos vies heureuses''. The following year, he appeared in another Cantet film, '' Ressources humaines'', which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2001. His career took off and he appeared in several films, playing a wide range of characters, such as a sensual gardener in ''Sade'', a body builder addict in '' Vivre me tue'', a box ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léa Drucker
Léa Drucker (born 23 January 1972) is a French actress. Early life Born in Caen, Normandy, she is the niece of television presenter Michel Drucker, and of ex-president of M6 Jean Drucker. Her father Jacques is a medical doctor, and her mother, Martine, an English teacher. She is the cousin of the journalist Marie Drucker, daughter of Jean Drucker. Her paternal grandfather was Jewish. Having followed courses at the École of the rue Blanche, ENSATT (the ''École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre'') in Paris, her career has encompassed both classical theatre pieces like ''Le Misanthrope ''The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover'' (french: Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux; ) is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris b ...'', and contemporary plays such as ''Blanc'' by Emmanuelle Marie. She has twice been nominated for a Molière Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Pierre Cassel (born Jean-Pierre Crochon; 27 October 1932 – 19 April 2007) was a French actor. Early life Cassel was born Jean-Pierre Crochon in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Louise-Marguerite (née Fabrègue), an opera singer, and Georges Crochon, a doctor. Cassel was discovered by Gene Kelly as he tap danced on stage, and later cast in the 1957 film ''The Happy Road''. Career Cassel gained prominence in the late 1950s as a hero in comedies by Philippe de Broca such as ''Male Companion'' and through his role as 'Jean François Jardie' in the famous French resistance piece '' L' Armée des ombres''. During the 1960s and 1970s, he worked with Claude Chabrol ('' The Breach''), Luis Buñuel (as Stéphane Audran's husband in ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' 1972), Ken Annakin (as the Frenchman in ''Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines'' 1965), Gérard Brach (as Claude Jade's lover in ''The Boat on the Grass''), Richard Lester (as Louis XIII ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Nahon
Philippe Nahon (; 24 December 1938 – 19 April 2020) was a French actor. Best known films Nahon was best known for his roles in French horror and thriller films, including '' I Stand Alone'', '' Humains'', '' Calvaire'', ''The Pack'' and ''Haute Tension,'' and he has been featured as a nameless butcher in three films by Gaspar Noé – ''Carne'', '' I Stand Alone,'' and ''Irréversible'' (cameo). He died from an illness made worse by COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ... on 19 April 2020. Theater Filmography References External links * * 1938 births 2020 deaths French male film actors Male actors from Paris 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French male stage actors French male television actors Deaths fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Duret
Marc Duret (born 28 September 1957 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France) is a French actor. Having previously played Cardinal Guillaume Briçonnet in the television series ''Borgia'' from 2011 to 2014, Duret appeared as Joseph Duverney in the Starz series '' Outlander'' in 2016. Duret was nominated for a 1991 César Award for Most Promising Actor for his portrayal of Rico in the 1990 film '' La Femme Nikita'', and later nominated for a 1994 Molière Award for Best Newcomer for his theatre performance in ''Les grandes personnes'' (''The Grown Ups''). Screen Junkies named Duret #1 of its "10 Best French Movie Actors". Education Duret studied drama at the ''Conservatoire national'' in Nice, the ''Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique'' in Paris, Rose Bruford College in London, and the University at Albany, SUNY and the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York. Filmography Film Short film Television Theatre Recognition Screen Junkies Screen Junkies is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Comedy-drama Films
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Directorial Debut Films
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
