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Valérie Benguigui
Valérie Benguigui (8 July 1961 – 2 September 2013) was a French actress and theater director. Born in Oran, Algeria, she took acting courses at the Cours Florent and the National Chaillot Theatre School. Her first film role was in Francis Huster's ''On a volé Charlie Spencer'' (1986). Her most successful television role was in the series ', in which she appeared from 2000 to 2005. She also produced and directed several plays at this time. In 2012, she portrayed Élisabeth in the film '' What's in a Name?'' (''Le Prénom''), which earned her a César Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a Molière Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Personal life Benguigui was married to actor and restaurant manager Eric Wapler, whom she met while studying at Cours Florent. They had two children. Death Benguigui died from breast cancer, aged 52, on 2 September 2013 in Paris. She had had the disease for three years. Benguigui was buried at Montparnasse Cemetery M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
38th César Awards
The 38th Annual César Awards ceremony, presented by the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques (Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma), was held on 22 February 2013, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Jamel Debbouze, with Antoine de Caunes as master of ceremonies. Nominations were announced 25 January 2013. Michael Haneke's film ''Amour (2012 film), Amour'', nominated in ten categories, won in five, including César Award for Best Film, Best Film, César Award for Best Director, Best Director, César Award for Best Actor, Best Actor and César Award for Best Actress, Best Actress. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. Honorary César Kevin Costner, American actor, director and producer Viewers The show was followed by 2.5 million viewers. This corresponds to 12.5% of the audience. See also * 85th Academy Awards * 66th British Academy Film Awards * 25th European Film Awards * 18th Lumière ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Elbé
Pascal Elbé (born 13 March 1967) is a French actor, director and screenwriter. Life and career Pascal Elbé was born in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France, to a family of middle-class Jewish immigrants from Algeria. He was raised in Strasbourg. At 18, he moved to Paris to study acting. In 2004, Elbe was nominated for a César Award Cesar or César may refer to: Arts and entertainment * César (film), ''César'' (film), a 1936 French romantic drama * César (film), ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt Places * Cesar, Portugal * Cesar Department, Colombia * Cesar R ... for Most Promising Actor. Elbé was previously married to Beatrice Elbé; they separated in 2014 after twenty-two years together. They have a son together, Leo. Filmography References External links * 1967 births French male film actors French film directors French male television actors Living people People from Colmar Male actors from Grand Est 20th-century French Jews Jewish French m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabien Onteniente
Fabien Onteniente (born 27 April 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter. Filmography * 1989 : '' Bobby et l'aspirateur'' (short film) * 1992 : '' À la vitesse d'un cheval au galop'' * 1995 : '' Tom est tout seul'' * 1996 : '' Le Tuteur'' (TV) * 1998 : '' Grève party'' * 2000 : ''Jet Set'' * 2001 : '' Tel épris'' (TV) * 2002 : '' 3 zéros'' * 2004 : ''People The term "the people" refers to the public or Common people, common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. I ...'' * 2006 in film, 2006 : ''Camping (2006 film), Camping'' * 2007 in film, 2008 : ''Disco (2008 film), Disco'' * 2010 in film, 2010 : ''Camping 2'' * 2013 in film, 2013 : ''Turf(film), Turf'' * 2016 in film, 2016 : ''Camping 3'' * 2019 in film, 2019 : ''All Inclusive (2019 film), All Inclusive'' * 2020 in film, 2020 : ''100% Bio'' (TV) External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jet Set (film)
''Jet Set'' is a 2000 French comedy film, directed by Fabien Onteniente. A sequel, ''People'', was released in 2004. Plot Jimmy ( Bruno Solo), desperate to save his suburban bar from bankruptcy, conceives a plan to attract the "jet set", the rich and glamorous celebrities of France. He sends his friend Mike ( Samuel Le Bihan), a down-at-heel unemployed actor, to infiltrate French high society and garner contacts with prestigious personalities to invite. Hijinks ensue. Cast * Samuel Le Bihan as Mickaël Gonzalvez aka « Mike » * Lambert Wilson as Artus de Poulignac * Ornella Muti as Camilla * Ariadna Gil as Andréa * Bruno Solo as Jimmy * José Garcia as Mellor de Silva * Aurore Clément as Nicole * Estelle Larrivaz as Lydia * Lorànt Deutsch as Fifi * Elli Medeiros as Danielle Joubert * Antoinette Moya as Mme Gonzalvez * Guillaume Gallienne as Evrard Sainte Croix * Armelle as Frénégonde * Valérie Benguigui as The Baroness * Adel Kachermi as Himself Reception The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drug Scenes
''Drug Scenes'' (original French title ''Scénarios sur la drogue'', also titled ''Drugs!'') is an omnibus film (2000) of 24 French short films depicting drug abuse. Varying in length from three to seven minutes, they showed in movie theaters before feature films. Directors included Georges Lautner, Etienne Chatiliez, Emmanuelle Bercot, Santiago Otheguy, Diane Bertrand, Jean Bocheux, Laurent Bouhnik, and Manuel Boursinhac. Actors include Sylvie Testud, Chiara Mastroianni, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Nathalie Richard, Manuel Blanc, Claude Jade, Pierre Richard Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays; 16 August 1934) is a France, French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Richard is considered by some, such a ..., Éva Darlan, Lou Doillon, Michèle Garcia anMathieu Delarive Scriptwriters included Eric Ellena. External links ''Scénarios sur la drogue'' official site * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte De Turckheim
Anne-Charlotte de Turckheim (born 5 April 1955) is a French actress, screenwriter, comedian and film producer. Personal life Born in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France, the daughter of Françoise Husson and Arnaud de Turckheim, a member of a noble Protestant family from Alsace, Charlotte de Turckheim studied theater after completing her baccalauréat degree. She has appeared in numerous films. The writer Émilie de Turckheim is her cousin. She is a descendant of the French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer Adrien de Turckheim of the company Lorraine-Dietrich. Television In 2007, she participated in ''Rendez-vous en terre inconnue''. On Feb 25, 2014, it was announced that she would present a French version of the BBC's ''Antiques Roadshow'' In 2023, she was selected to be a 'traitor' in the second season of the french version of ''The Traitors''. She was banished in episode eight. In 2025, she is a contestant on the '' fourteen season'' of ''Danse a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Hazanavicius
Michel Hazanavicius ( ; born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, ''The Artist (film), The Artist'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards. It also won him the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed spy film parody, parodies ''OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'' (2006) and ''OSS 117: Lost in Rio'' (2009). Life and career Hazanavicius was born in Paris. His family is Lithuanian Jews, Jewish, and originally from Lithuania. His grandparents were from both Poland and Lithuania and settled in France in the 1920s. Before directing films, Hazanavicius worked in television, beginning with the Canal+ (French TV channel), Canal+ channel, where he started as a director in 1988.Michel Hazanavicius. ''All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Richard
Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays; 16 August 1934) is a France, French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Richard is considered by some, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest French comedians of the last 50 years. He is also a film director and occasional singer. Early life Pierre Richard was born in a Bourgeoisie, bourgeois family from Valenciennes. He is the grandson of Léopold Defays who was the director of the company Escaut-et-Meuse. His name comes from the stage name of Pierre Richard-Willm who was his mother's favorite actor. Richard spent his childhood and a part of his teenage years in his native city where he was a student at the Henri-Wallon high school. Skipping classes regularly to go to the cinema, it was Danny Kaye in ''Up in Arms'' that revealed his vocation. This was received with only a moderate enthusiasm by his family, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vérité Si Je Mens !
''La Vérité si je mens !'' ( ; English title: ''Would I Lie to You?'') is a 1997 French film, directed by . It was followed by a sequel, '' La Vérité si je mens ! 2'', in 2001, and a third movie ', in 2012. Plot In Paris, Eddie Vuibert ( Richard Anconina) is an unemployed man in financial difficulty. A rich Jewish cloth manufacturer takes Eddie into his corporation out of pity because he mistakenly believes him to be Jewish as well. Eddie rapidly integrates in the Parisian Jewish textile community and rises as a sales manager. He continues his masquerade of pretending to be Ashkenazi Jew in order to woo his boss's daughter (played by Amira Casar). Reception The film was the highest-grossing French film for the year. The film was nominated for two César Awards: Casar for Most Promising Actress, and José Garcia for Most Promising Actor for his portrayal of Serge Benamou. Sequels A sequel, ''La Vérité si je mens ! 2'', was released in 2001 and was even more popular in Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvan Attal
Yvan Attal (; ; born ) is a French actor, scriptwriter and film director. Life and career Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to History of the Jews in Algeria, Algerian-Jewish parents, he grew up in the outskirts of Paris. His acting debut was in Éric Rochant's ''Un monde sans pitié'' (1989), which earned him a César Award for César Award for Most Promising Actor, Most Promising Actor. His first feature film as a director was ''Ma femme est une actrice'' (2001), which co-starred Charlotte Gainsbourg, Attal's real-life partner. He directed a segment in the film ''New York, I Love You'', and appeared as an actor in another. He acted in ''The Interpreter (2005 film), The Interpreter'' and ''Anthony Zimmer'', and in ''Rush Hour 3'' he played a French cab driver named George. Personal life Attal's longtime partner is Anglo-French actress-singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, whom he met on the set of the 1991 film '. Gainsbourg and Attal are not married, and Gainsbourg has attributed her reluc ... [...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'' *1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Feydeau
Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in an artistic and literary environment. From an early age he was fascinated by the theatre, and as a child he wrote plays and organised his schoolfellows into a drama group. In his teens he wrote comic monologues and moved on to writing longer plays. His first full-length comedy, ' (), was well received, but was followed by a string of comparative failures. He gave up writing for a time in the early 1890s and studied the methods of earlier masters of French comedy, particularly Eugène Labiche, Alfred Hennequin and Henri Meilhac. With his technique honed, and sometimes in collaboration with a co-author, he wrote seventeen full-length plays between 1892 and 1914, many of which have become staples of the theatrical repertoire in France and abroa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
