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Geneviève Fontanel
Geneviève Fontanel (27 June 1936 – 17 March 2018) was a French stage and film actress. Early life and education Geneviève Fontanel was born on 27 June 1936. Career Fontanel was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1 September 1958 to 31 July 1962. Awards In 1999, she received the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees 1980's * 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in '' Kean'' ** Anne Alvaro in '' Tonight We Improvise'' (''Ce soir on improvise'') ** Catherine Arditi in '' Adriana Monti'' ** Lucienne Hamon in ... for her performance in "Délicate balance", and the next year she was again nominated for her performance in Raisons de famille. She was nominated for the César Awards 1978 for Best Supporting Actress for her role in '' L'Homme qui aimait les femmes''. Death Fontanel died on 17 March 2018. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fontanel, Genevieve 1936 births 2018 death ... [...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] |
Henri Colpi
Henri Colpi (; 15 July 1921 – 14 January 2006) was a French film editor and film director. Early life Colpi graduated from the IDHEC in 1947. During 1950 to 1960, he edited films for such notable French New Wave directors as Agnès Varda and Georges Franju. Career Colpi directed the 1961 film '' Une aussi longue absence'', which is well known for sharing the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival with '' Viridiana'', directed by Luis Buñuel. ''Une aussi longue absence'' was written by Marguerite Duras, featured Alida Valli in a major role, and included music by Georges Delerue. It also won the Louis Delluc Prize The Louis Delluc Prize ( ) is a French film award presented annually since 1937. The award is bestowed to the Best Film and Best First Film of the year on the second week of each December. The jury is composed of 20 members, consisting of a group ... in 1960. His second feature '' Codine'' was also screening in competition at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Rosa
''Madame Rosa'' () is a 1977 French drama film directed by Moshé Mizrahi, adapted from the 1975 novel '' The Life Before Us'' by Romain Gary. It stars Simone Signoret and Samy Ben-Youb, and tells the story of an elderly Jewish woman and former prostitute in Paris who cares for a number of children, including an adolescent Algerian boy. The film required a transformation in Signoret's appearance as Madame Rosa. The film was viewed in context of Arab–Israeli conflicts, and received positive reviews. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, while Signoret won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance. Plot In Belleville, Paris, Madame Rosa, an elderly French Jew and Holocaust survivor who worked as a prostitute, now runs a boarding home for the children of prostitutes. One of them is Momo, an Algerian boy who is believed to be 11. Although Madame Rosa is Jewish and sometimes makes racist comments about Momo, she raises Momo as a Muslim in respec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Award For Best Supporting Actress
The César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (French: ''César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle'') is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the ''Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma'' to recognize the outstanding performance in a supporting role of an actress who has worked within the French film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Académie. History Superlatives As of 2019, 137 actresses have been nominated in the category, with a total of 34 different winners. The average age at first nomination is 41 and the average age of winners at first win is 38. With three wins (1991, 1993, 1999), Dominique Blanc holds the record of most César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Eight actresses have won the César twice: Marie-France Pisier (1976, 1977), Nathalie Baye (1981, 1982), Suzanne Flon (1984, 1990), Annie Girardot (1996, 2002), Valérie Lemer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. He came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for Bazin's ''Cahiers du Cinéma'', where he became a proponent of the auteur, ''auteur'' theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author. ''The 400 Blows'' (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Truffaut's alter-ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of the New Wave. Truffaut supplied the story for another milestone of the movement, Breathless (1960 film), ''Breathless'' (1960), directed by his ''Cahiers'' colleague Jean-Luc Godard. His other notable films include ''Shoot the Piano Player'' (1960), ''Jules and Jim'' (1962), ''The Soft Skin'' (1964), ''Two English Girls'' (1971) and ''The Last Metro'' (1980). Truffaut's Day for Night (film), ''Day for Night'' (1973) earned him the BAFTA Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Loved Women (1977 Film)
''The Man Who Loved Women'' () is a 1977 French comedy drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, and Nelly Borgeaud. The film had a total of 955,262 admissions in France. In 1983, Blake Edwards directed an American remake of the film, which starred Burt Reynolds as a sculptor and Julie Andrews as a psychiatrist. Plot At a cemetery in Montpellier in December 1976, mourners gather for the funeral of Bertrand Morane. One of the attendants, Genevieve Bigey, stands apart from the others. She notices that everyone present is a woman. Some time earlier, Bertrand, a man in early middle-age, works in a laboratory testing the aerodynamics of scale models of aircraft, but his real passion is pursuing women. He is often successful, though he has less luck with the woman from the service that calls to wake him up each morning. After spotting a pair of attractive legs, Bertrand goes to extraordinary lengths (which include faking a car accident) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Santelli
Claude Santelli (17 June 1923 – 14 December 2001) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1996. Selected filmography * ''Histoire vraie ''Histoire vraie'' is a 1973 French film directed by Claude Santelli. Cast * Pierre Mondy as Varnetot * Marie-Christine Barrault as Rose * Denise Gence as Mère Paumelle * Claude Brosset as Le fils Paumelle * Isabelle Huppert as Adelaïde * ...'' (1973) * '' Madame Baptiste'' (1974) References External links * 1923 births 2001 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters People from Metz 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Boisrond
Michel Jacques Boisrond (9 October 1921 – 10 November 2002) was a French film director and screenwriter. His work spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s. Career A former apprentice of Jean Delannoy, Jean Cocteau, and René Clair René Clair (; 11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981), born René-Lucien Chomette (), was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. H ..., Michel Boisrond debuted as a full-fledged director in 1955 with '' Cette Sacrée Gamine'' starring Brigitte Bardot. His works typically fall into the comedy, romance, or comedy drama genres. Filmography References External links * 1921 births 2002 deaths French film directors 20th-century French screenwriters French television directors People from Eure-et-Loir {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dis-moi Que Tu M'aimes
''Dis-moi que tu m'aimes'' is a French film directed by Michel Boisrond, released in 1974 in film, 1974. Synopsis Two wives (one a housewife and the other a decorator) throw their husbands (businessmen Daniel Ceccaldi and Jean-Pierre Marielle) out. The men are initially delighted to return to bachelorhood. One man leaves the city to breed sheep in the countryside and the other finds love with another man. Details * Title : ''Dis-moi que tu m'aimes'' * Director : Michel Boisrond * Writers : Annette Wademant and Michel Boisrond * Cinematography : Daniel Gaudry * Cameraman : Jean-Paul Cornu * Editor : Renée Lichtig * Music : Claude Bolling * Sound : Bernard Ortion * Produce : Gérard Beytout (co-production Franco Film - S.N.C. - Mannic Film) * Distributor : S.N.C. * Length : 115 minutes * Release date : 12 December 1974 Starring * Mireille Darc : Victoire Danois * Marie-José Nat : Charlotte Le Royer * Jean-Pierre Marielle : Richard le Royer * Daniel Ceccaldi : Bertrand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Gobbi
Sergio Gobbi (born 13 May 1938 in Milan, Italy), born as Sergio Ehrlich, is an Italian-French filmmaker, who was married to Jocelyn Wildenstein. accessed 20 March 2013 Selected filmography * '''' (1970) * '' Love Me Strangely'' (1971) * '' The Pebbles of Etretat'' (1972) * ' (1973) * ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dominici Affair (film)
''The Dominici Affair'' (French: , Italian: ) is a 1973 French-Italian crime drama film directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert and starring Jean Gabin, Victor Lanoux and Gérard Depardieu.Kitchin p.xviii It is based on the Dominici affair of 1952. Location shooting took place in Ribiers and Peipin in Hautes-Alpes where the real events occurred. Synopsis After a British family are found murdered on the road near his family's farm in rural Provence Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which stretches from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the France–Italy border, Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterrane ..., the old villager Gaston Dominici is arrested and apparently confesses to the crime. He is tried and sentenced to death, but his punishment is commuted on health grounds amid growing doubts about his guilt. Cast References Bibliography * Harriss, Joseph. ''Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Deville
Michel Deville (13 April 1931 – 16 February 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ..., possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France. One of Deville's comedies, '' La Lectrice'' (''The Reader'') was probably his biggest success with international audiences. ''La Lectrice'' is about a woman (played by Miou-Miou), who find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
