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Benoît Ferreux
Benoît Ferreux (; born 29 September 1955) is a French film, television and stage actor who is possibly best recalled internationally for his role in the 1971 film '' Murmur of the Heart''. Career as a child actor Benoît Ferreux was born in Bordeaux. In early 1970, at age 14, he was cast to appear in director Louis Malle's 1971 coming-of-age drama ''Murmur of the Heart'' (). Set in 1954, Ferreux played Laurent Chevalier, a boy living in Dijon who is coming to terms with his burgeoning sexuality and his close relationship with his Italian mother Clara (portrayed by Lea Massari), which ultimately leads to an incestuous liaison at a sanatorium where he is being treated for a heart murmur. The film was selected for competition at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. The same year, Ferreux appeared alongside actors Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni in the Nadine Trintignant directed drama '' It Only Happens to Others'' (French: '' Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres''). Later career Ferreu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called "''Bordelais'' (masculine) or "''Bordelaises'' (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region. The city of Bordeaux proper had a population of 259,809 in 2020 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Bordeaux Functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 1,376,375 that same year (Jan. 2020 census), the sixth-most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, and Toulouse. Bordeaux and 27 suburban municipalities form the Bordeaux Métropole, Bordeaux Metropolis, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan authority now in charge of wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Von Sydow
Max von Sydow (; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish and French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages. Capable in Max von Sydow filmography, roles ranging from stolid, contemplative protagonists to sardonic artists and menacing, often gleeful villains, von Sydow received List of awards and nominations received by Max von Sydow, numerous accolades including honors from the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. He was nominated for two Academy Awards: for Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor for ''Pelle the Conqueror'' (1987) and for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor for ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (film), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'' (2011). Von Sydow was first noticed internationally for playing the 14th-century knight Antonius Bloc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Wind
''The Second Wind'' () is a 2007 French crime film directed by Alain Corneau and starring Daniel Auteuil and Monica Bellucci. It is a remake of the 1966 film '' Le Deuxième Souffle''. Cast * Daniel Auteuil - Gustave 'Gu' Minda * Monica Bellucci - Simona - dite 'Manouche' * Michel Blanc - Inspector Blot * Jacques Dutronc - Stanislas Orloff * Eric Cantona - Alban * Daniel Duval - Venture Ricci * Gilbert Melki - Jo Ricci * Nicolas Duvauchelle - Antoine * Jacques Bonnaffé - Pascal * Philippe Nahon - Commissaire Fardiano * Jean-Paul Bonnaire - Théo, le passeur * Jean-Claude Dauphin Jean-Claude Dauphin ( né Legrand; born 16 March 1948) is a French actor who is primarily known for national movie productions in France. He is an uncle to American actors Griffin Newman and James Newman as well as to chef Romilly Newman. Bio ... - le notaire * Francis Renaud - Letourneur See also * '' Le deuxième souffle'' (1966) References External links * 2007 crime drama fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Brasier
''Le Brasier'' is a French film directed by Éric Barbier, released in 1991. This was the first full-length feature film directed by Barbier. Based around the social struggles of a mining area in the 1930s, ''Le Brasier'' was the first French film to have a budget of more than 100 million francs, the highest budget in the history of French cinema at that point. The film was a commercial disaster, selling less than 40,000 tickets in the Paris region. Synopsis Details * Original title: ''Le Brasier'' * Director: Éric Barbier * Writers: Éric Barbier, Jean-Pierre Barbier * Length: 122 minutes * Format : Colour * Photography : Thierry Arbogast * Executive producer: Jean-François Lepetit * Release date: France: 30 January 1991 Starring * Jean-Marc Barr as Victor * Maruschka Detmers as Alice * Thierry Fortineau as Emile * François Hadji-Lazaro as Gros * Serge Merlin as Betaix * Tolsty as Piotr Pavlak * Jean-Paul Roussillon as Dalmas Shooting * The film was shot in three coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Until September
''Until September'' is a 1984 romantic drama film directed by Richard Marquand and starring Karen Allen and Thierry Lhermitte. The plot concerns an American tourist and a French banker who fall in love in Paris. Plot Moe Alexander (Karen Allen) is an American tourist in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci .... When she misses her plane home, she ends up being stuck in Paris for a while until her visa gets approved and goes to stay at the apartment of a friend who is away for the summer. There she meets Xavier de la Perouse (Thierry Lhermitte), a wealthy French banker. Xavier is married but his wife and family are away. As he spends time with Moe, their mutual attraction is overwhelming and they fall in love. Cast Production Janice Lee Graham wrote the screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Days One Summer
''Five Days One Summer'' is a 1982 American romantic drama film produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Michael Austin, based on the 1929 short story "Maiden, Maiden" by Kay Boyle. Set primarily in the Alps, the story focuses on Douglas Meredith (Sean Connery) and his lover Kate (Betsy Brantley) as they embark on a mountain climbing trip, which unravels their relationship due to Kate's feelings for their mountain guide (Lambert Wilson) as well as a dark secret that looms over the couple. ''Five Days One Summer'' was Zinnemann's final film before his death. It was released in the United States on November 12, 1982, by Warner Bros., and was a commercial and critical failure. Plot In 1932, Douglas Meredith, a middle-aged Scottish doctor, is on a mountain climbing trip in the Alps with a young woman, Kate, whom he introduces as his wife. Despite being side-eyed by their hotel's guests and staff due to their large age difference, Douglas and Kate are deeply in love, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonraker (film)
''Moonraker'' is a 1979 Spy-fi (subgenre), spy-fi film, the eleventh in the List of James Bond films, ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond filmography, James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Cléry, and Richard Kiel. In the film, Bond investigates the vanishing of a Space Shuttle orbiter, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with astronaut Holly Goodhead, Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the mystery from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon rainforest, and finally into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and repopulate humanity with a master race. The story was intended by author Ian Fleming to become a film even before he completed the Moonraker (novel), novel in 1954; he based it on a screenplay manuscript he had dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Maître-nageur
''Le Maître-nageur'' is a 1979 French comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Louis Trintignant. Cast * Guy Marchand as Marcel Potier * Stefania Sandrelli as Marie Mariani Potier * Jean-Claude Brialy as Logan * Moustache as Achille Zopoulos * Jean-Louis Trintignant as The gardener of Zopoulos * Christian Marquand as Paul Jouriace * François Perrot François Perrot (26 February 1924 – 20 January 2019) References External links * 1979 films[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Nozière
''Violette Nozière'', also titled ''Violette'', is a 1978 crime drama film directed by Claude Chabrol starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. It tells the true story of teenage prostitute and murderer Violette Nozière, who poisoned her parents in 1933 France. Plot France in the early 1930s: teenager Violette lives with her parents, Baptiste Nozière, a train driver, and Germaine Nozière. Unbeknownst to Baptiste, he is not Violette's father, something known only to the mother and daughter. Rebelling against her petit-bourgeois parents, Violette secretly works as a prostitute. She falls in love with student Jean Dabin, whom she supports with thefts from her parents' as well as her prostitution. Violette's doctor informs her parents that she has contracted syphilis. She convinces them that she has inherited the disease and that they should take a "medicine" which is actually poison. The first murder attempt fails and both survive, although her mother is temporarily hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guerrilla (1973 Film)
''The Guerrilla'' (Spanish:''La guerrilla'') is a 1973 French-Spanish historical war film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Francisco Rabal, Jacques Destoop and Julia Saly.Bentley p.205 It is set during the Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French .... Cast References Bibliography * Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer 2008. External links * 1973 films French war drama films Spanish war drama films 1970s Spanish-language films Films directed by Rafael Gil Peninsular War films Films set in the 1810s Films set in Spain Films with screenplays by Rafael J. Salvia Guerrilla warfare in film 1970s Spanish films 1970s historical films French historical films Spanish historical films Spanish-language war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Bellucci
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (; born 30 September 1964) is an Italian actress and model who began her career as a fashion model before working in Italian, American, and French films. She has an eclectic filmography in a range of genres and languages, and her accolades include the David di Donatello, Globo d'oro and Nastro d'Argento awards. In 2018, '' Forbes Italy'' included her in their list of the 100 most successful Italian women. Bellucci was represented by Elite Model Management and modelled for Dolce & Gabbana campaigns. She made her acting debut in the Italian television miniseries (1991); she went on to play one of Dracula's brides in the horror film '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' (1992) and then enrolled in acting classes. After appearing in Italian productions, she had her breakthrough role in '' The Apartment'' (1996), for which she received a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actress. Bellucci came to the attention of American audiences in '' Under Suspici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
