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Une Femme Mariée
''A Married Woman'' () is a 1964 French drama film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, his eighth feature film. Plot Charlotte is a woman in her twenties, married to Pierre, an affluent man in his later thirties or forties. Pierre's passion is flying, and he flies his own private plane, after previously having been an air force pilot. Pierre has a young son, Nicolas, from his first marriage, which dissolved when his wife left him for another man. Pierre, Charlotte, and Nicolas live together in a modern apartment outside Paris. Charlotte spends her days going to cafes, shopping, swimming, at the cinema, reading women's fashion magazines, or with her lover, Robert, an actor. Pierre believes that Charlotte's affair is over, having previously confronted her with evidence from a private investigator. As the film opens, Charlotte and Robert are in a Paris love nest that Robert has rented. They make love, and he repeats an earlier request that Charlotte divorce Pierre to marry him. Leaving th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork. During his early career as a film critic for '' Cahiers du Cinéma'', Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality" and championed Hollywood directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks. In response, he and like-minded critics began to make their own films, challenging the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. Godard first received global acclaim for '' Breathless'' (1960), a milestone in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Bourseiller
Christophe Gintzburger (born 27 September 1957), known professionally as Christophe Bourseiller (), is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began his career as a child actor and made his debut in Yves Robert's 1962 film '' War of the Buttons''. He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006. Biography He was born Christophe Gintzburger. His father, André Gintzburger called Kinsbourg (1923–2013), was a playwright and theater producer. His mother, Chantal Darget (née Marie Chantal Chauvet; 1934–1988), was an actress and the daughter of journalist Claude Darget. His mother subsequently married the director Antoine Bourseiller (of which Christophe adopts the surname as a stage name) and they had a daughter, the rejoneadora Marie Sara. From the age of four, he appears in cinemas in ''War of the Buttons'', the film by Yves Robert. He then played under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Peyrefitte
Alain Peyrefitte (; 26 August 1925 – 27 November 1999) was a French scholar and politician. He was a confidant of Charles de Gaulle and had a long career in public service, serving as a diplomat in Germany and Poland. Peyrefitte is remembered for his support for partitioning Algeria amid the Algerian War. Peyrefitte served as Minister of Information from 1962 to 1966, establishing the rules of presidential debates between the two electoral rounds; and as Minister of Justice from 1977 to 1981, being involved in the affair surrounding the mysterious death of Robert Boulin in 1979. He became a member of the Académie française in 1977. On 15 December 1986, he survived an assassination attempt by members of Action Directe (AD) in front of his house. The driver of his car was killed in the bomb attack. Upon his death in 1999 he was honored by burial in Les Invalides which also houses the tomb of Napoleon and other revered national leaders. Books He wrote '' The Immobile Empi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Information (France)
Minister may refer to: * Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric ** Minister (Catholic Church) * Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department) ** Minister without portfolio, a member of government with the rank of a normal minister but who doesn't head a ministry ** Shadow minister, a member of a Shadow Cabinet of the opposition ** Minister (Austria) * Minister (diplomacy), the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador * Ministerialis, a member of a noble class in the Holy Roman Empire * ''The Minister'', a 2011 French-Belgian film directed by Pierre Schöller See also *Ministry (other) *Minster (other) Minster may refer to: * Minster (church), an honorific title given to particular churches in England Places England * Minster, Swale (or Minster-in-Sheppey), a town in Swale, Kent ** Minster-on-Sea, the civil parish * Minster-in-Thanet, a vill ... *'' Yes Minister'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bande à Part (film)
''Bande à part'' () is a 1964 French New Wave film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was released as ''Band of Outsiders'' in North America; its French title derives from the phrase ''faire bande à part'', which means "to do something apart from the group". The film is about three people who commit a robbery. It received positive critical reviews, and its dance scene has been referenced several times in popular culture. Plot A young woman named Odile (Anna Karina) meets a man named Franz (Sami Frey) in an English language class. She has told him of a large pile of money stashed in the villa where she lives with her aunt Victoria and Mr. Stolz in Joinville, a Parisian suburb. Franz tells his friend Arthur ( Claude Brasseur) of the money and the two make a plan to steal it. Franz and Arthur go to the English class, where Arthur flirts with Odile and asks her about the money. Odile goes home and finds the money in Stolz's room. She then meets Franz and Arthur, and they go to a caf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Desert (film)
''Red Desert'' () is a 1964 psychological drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris. Written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, it was Antonioni's first color film. Set in Northern Italy, the story follows a troubled woman who is unable to adapt to her environment after an automobile accident. ''Red Desert'' was awarded the Golden Lion at the 25th Venice International Film Festival in 1964. It has received acclaim from critics. This was the last in a series of four films he made with Vitti between 1959 and 1964, preceded by ''L'Avventura'' (1960), '' La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962). Plot In Ravenna, Italy, Giuliana is walking with her young son, Valerio, towards the petrochemical plant managed by her husband, Ugo. Passing workers who are on strike, Giuliana nervously and impulsively buys a half-eaten sandwich from one of the workers. They are surrounded by strange industrial structures and debris that create inhuman image ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni ( ; ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents", ''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962); the English-language film ''Blowup'' (1966); and the multilingual '' The Passenger (1975 film), The Passenger'' (1975). His films have been described as "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" that feature elusive plots, striking composition (visual arts), visual composition, and a preoccupation with modern landscapes. His work substantially influenced subsequent world art cinema. Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, being the first and one of two directors, the other being Jafar Panahi, to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion, the Golden Bear and the Golden Leopard. Three of his films are on the list of A hundred Italian films to be saved, hundred Italian films to be saved. He rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Days With Françoise
My or MY may refer to: Arts and entertainment * My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station * Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe * ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak * ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon Business * Marketing year, variable period * Model year, product identifier Transport * Motoryacht * Motor Yacht, a name prefix for merchant vessels * Midwest Airlines (Egypt), IATA airline designation * MAXjet Airways, United States, defunct IATA airline designation Other uses * ''My'', the genitive form of the English pronoun ''I'' * Malaysia, ISO 3166-1 country code ** .my, the country-code top level domain (ccTLD) * Burmese language (ISO 639 alpha-2) * Megalithic Yard, a hypothesised, prehistoric unit of length * Million years See also * MyTV (other) * μ ("mu"), a letter of the Greek alphabet * Mi (other) * Me (other) * Myself (other) '' Myself'' is a reflexive pronoun in English. Myself may also refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Cayatte
André Cayatte (; 3 February 1909 – 6 February 1989) was a French filmmaker, writer and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility. Biography Cayatte began his directoral career at the German-controlled Continental Films during the French occupation. Some of Cayatte's earlier films that addressed his characteristic themes include ''Justice est faite'' (''Justice is Done''; 1950), ''Nous sommes tous des assassins'' (''We Are All Murderers''; 1952), and ''Le passage du Rhin'' (''Le Passage du Rhin, Tomorrow Is My Turn''; 1960). In 1963, he undertook a bold experiment in film narrative with a set of two films: ''Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale'' (''Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc'') and ''Françoise ou La vie conjugale'' (''Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise''). These two films tell the same story from two different points of view. His 1973 film, ''Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu'', won the Jur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Peau Douce
''The Soft Skin'' () is a 1964 romantic drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut and starring Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, and Nelly Benedetti. Written by Truffaut and Jean-Louis Richard, it is about a married successful writer and lecturer who meets and has an affair with a flight attendant half his age. The film was shot on location in Paris, Reims, and Lisbon, and several scenes were filmed at Paris-Orly Airport. At the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Despite Truffaut's recent success with ''Jules and Jim'' and ''The 400 Blows'', ''The Soft Skin'' did not do well at the box office. Plot Pierre Lachenay, a middle-aged married father and well-known writer, lecturer, and editor of a literary magazine, takes a plane to Lisbon. As he disembarks, photographers approach Pierre and ask him to pose for a picture with Nicole, a young stewardess. After delivering a lecture in a sold-out auditorium, Pierre returns to his hotel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
