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Étienne Draber
Étienne Draber (26 March 1939 – 11 January 2021) was a French actor. Biography Draber studied at CNSAD and worked alongside and Jean-Louis Barrault in the 1960s. The father of actress , In the 1980s, Draber frequently appeared in French films. He acted in films such as ''Profs'', '' The Under-Gifted'', ''May Fools'', and ''Ridicule''. Draber also appeared in television series. He played the role of Monsieur Grand-Coin du Toit in the 1994 sitcom ''Le Miel et les Abeilles''. His most successful series appearance occurred in 2008 with ''Plus belle la vie''. Étienne Draber died of COVID-19 in Paris on 11 January 2021, at the age of 81, during the COVID-19 pandemic in France. Filmography Cinema *''Les Baratineurs'' (1965) *''Sexyrella'' (1968) *''La Grande Maffia'' (1971) *'' The Inheritor'' (1973) *''Cher Victor'' (1975) *''Sept morts sur ordonnance'' (1975) *'' Le Plein de Super'' (1976) *''Un oursin dans la poche'' (1977) *'' Le Sucre'' (1978) *''La Frisée aux lardons'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Plein De Super
''Le Plein de Super'' (also known as Fill 'er Up with Super) is a 1976 French comedy and drama film directed by Alain Cavalier. The musical score was composed by Étienne Chicot. The film stars Patrick Bouchitey, Étienne Chicot, Bernard Crombey, Xavier Saint-Macary and Béatrice Agenin in the lead roles. Cast * Patrick Bouchitey as Daniel * Étienne Chicot as Charles * Bernard Crombey as Klouk * Xavier Saint-Macary as Philippe * Béatrice Agenin as Agathe * Nathalie Baye as Charlotte * Catherine Meurisse as Camille * Valérie Quennessen Valérie Quennessen (3 December 1957 – 19 March 1989) was a French theatre and film actress. Biography Quennessen was born near Paris in Boulogne-Billancourt, of Jewish French/Polish parentage, and dedicated much of her childhood to pursuing ... as Marie References External links * * 1976 films 1970s French-language films 1976 comedy-drama films French comedy-drama films 1970s French films Films directed by Alain Cavalier F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J'ai Perdu Albert
''J'ai perdu Albert'' () is a French comedy directed and written by Didier Van Cauwelaert. It is the final film composed by Michel Legrand before his death in 2019. Plot Chloe, a young medium that the great business leaders, politicians and the jet set snapped up, shelters in her since childhood the spirit of Albert Einstein. Overworked, the information does not "pass" anymore. So Albert decides to move ... For better or for worse, he settles in Zac, a depressive Cartesian, beekeeper routed and waiter. Become inseparable and complementary, because one has the "genius" and the other his instructions, Zac and Chloe, these two beings who are dissimilar in everything, will live in 48 hours the most hallucinating "households for three" ... Cast * Stéphane Plaza: Zac * Julie Ferrier: Chloé * Josiane Balasko: Madame Le Couidec * Bernard Le Coq: Georges * Virginie Visconti: Nelly * Etienne Draber: Albert Einstein * Philippe du Janerand: Roland Buech * Jean-Noël Cnokaert: Olivier * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coco (2009 Film)
''Coco'' is a 2009 Cinema of France, French comedy film written, directed, and starring Gad Elmaleh. The film is based on a character sketch he created for his one-man show "La Vie Normale". The film earned $8.5 million in its opening weekend at the French box office, and went on to gross $11.7 million in the European market. Although it was a box office success, ''Coco'' was not well received by critics. It received only one star out of four from ''Premiere (magazine), Première'', ''Paris Match'', and ''Télérama'', and two stars from ''Elle (magazine), Elle'' and ''Le Journal du Dimanche''. Synopsis Coco is a wealthy Maghrebi Jews, Maghrebi Jewish businessman and an Immigration, immigrant to France. After 15 years of financial success (due to his invention of a new type of sparkling water) he decides to throw an enormous bar mitzvah celebration for his son Samuel. Determined that the celebration will be the most fantastic event of the year, Coco alienates his entire family as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Best Friend (2006 Film)
''My Best Friend '' ''(Mon meilleur ami)'' is a French film starring Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, and Julie Gayet. Plot François (Auteuil) is a middle-aged, Parisian art dealer who thinks he has everything. After telling a story at dinner about a funeral he attended where only a handful of people turned up, his colleagues suggest that no-one would go to his funeral. He may be materially rich, but he has no friends. Everyone at the dinner table starts to antagonise him about having no friends but François says that he does have friends (in reality, he only has clients). His business partner Catherine (Gayet) challenges him to a bet: François must introduce his best friend within ten days, or lose a valuable object, his antique Greek vase (worth €200,000). The challenge is accepted. François has ten days to find a friend. As François travels through Paris in a taxi, revisiting old acquaintances who all reject him, he meets a trivia-loving taxi driver, Bruno (Boon). As the tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of D
''House of D'' is a 2004 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by David Duchovny in his directorial debut. The film stars Duchovny, Anton Yelchin, Téa Leoni, Erykah Badu, Frank Langella, Zelda Williams and Robin Williams. It was screened at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. Plot An American artist living a bohemian existence in Paris, Tom Warshaw is trying to make sense of his troubled adult life by reflecting on his extraordinary childhood. Prompted by his son's thirteenth birthday, Tom experiences a flashback to Greenwich Village in 1973, as 13-year-old Tommy is on the brink of becoming a man. While his bereaved single mother mourns the recent death of his father, Tommy escapes grief by causing trouble at school and making afternoon deliveries with his best friend Pappas, a middle-aged mentally challenged janitor. Tommy becomes friends with Lady, a woman incarcerated in the New York Women's House of Detention. As well, Tommy experiences his first taste of love. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Guard (1997 Film)
''On Guard'' () is a 1997 French swashbuckler film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, and Marie Gillain. Adapted from the 1858 historical novel '' Le Bossu'' by Paul Féval, the film is about a skilled swordsman named Lagardère who is befriended by the Duke of Nevers. When the duke is attacked by his evil cousin Gonzague, the duke in his dying moments asks Lagardère to avenge him and look after his infant daughter. ''On Guard'' was released on 3 December 1997 in France. The film had 2,385,688 admissions in France and grossed $96,750 in the United States. ''On Guard'' received the César Award for Best Costume Design, and eight César Award nominations for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music, and Best Production Design in 1998. The film also received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Film in 1999. Plot In 1700 in Nevers, France, a skilled swordsman na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaumarchais (film)
''Beaumarchais'' () is a 1996 Cinema of France, French biographical film, biopic film directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc and Sandrine Kiberlain. The film is based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais, depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Pierre Beaumarchais#The Figaro plays, Figaro trilogy of plays. It was adapted from a play by Sacha Guitry. Cast * Fabrice Luchini – Pierre Beaumarchais, clockmaker, adventurer, arms dealer, libertine, playwright * Sandrine Kiberlain – Marie-Thérèse Willermaulaz, Beaumarchais' partner and muse * Manuel Blanc – Paul-Philippe Gudin de La Brenellerie, Beaumarchais' admirer, colleague and biographer * Michel Aumont – Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil * Jean-François Balmer – Antoine de Sartine, lieutenant general of the police then Navy minister, friend of Beaumarchais * Jean-Claude Brialy – Abbot * Patri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Bovary (1991 Film)
''Madame Bovary'' is a 1991 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the 1857 novel ''Madame Bovary'' by French author Gustave Flaubert. Set in Normandy in the 1850s, the film follows the story of Emma Bovary, an attractive young woman full of romantic notions, whose marriage to an unexciting country doctor leads her to adulterous affairs and tragedy. Plot Facing spinsterhood on her widowed father's farm Emma, with the help of her father, is successful in attracting and contracting a marriage with the local doctor, whose wife has recently died. Charles Bovary is kindly and conscientious, but lacks assertiveness and is a dull conversationalist. Following an aristocratic ball she is more dissatisfied than ever and her husband, noticing this, moves to a larger town with potentially greater diversions, where he is befriended by the apothecary. There she meets the law clerk Léon, with whom she can talk about art, literature, poetry and music. His attentions to her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Rois Du Gag
LES or Les may refer to: People * Les (given name) * Les (surname) * L.E.S. (producer), hip hop producer Space flight * Launch Entry Suit, worn by Space Shuttle crews * Launch escape system, for spacecraft emergencies * Lincoln Experimental Satellite series, 1960s and 1970s Biology and medicine * Lazy eye syndrome, or amblyopia, a disorder in the human optic nerve * The Liverpool epidemic strain of ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa'' * Lower esophageal sphincter * Lupus erythematosus systemicus Places * The Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City * Les, Catalonia, a municipality in Spain * Leş, a village in Nojorid Commune, Bihor County, Romania * ''Les'', the Hungarian name for Leșu Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania * Les, a village in Tejakula district, Buleleng regency, Bali, Indonesia * Lesotho, IOC and UNDP country code * Lès, a word featuring in many French placenames Transport * Leigh-on-Sea railway station, National Rail station code * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Bon Plaisir
''Le Bon Plaisir'' is a 1984 French film directed by Francis Girod. The film relates the story of the efforts of a President of the French Republic (Jean-Louis Trintignant) informed, after a number of years, of the existence of a son born from an extramarital relationship with Claire (Catherine Deneuve), a former mistress, to cover up any kind of proof likely to tarnish his reputation using the secret service. Cast * Catherine Deneuve as Claire Després * Jean-Louis Trintignant as The President * Michel Serrault as Minister of the Interior * Hippolyte Girardot as Pierre * Michel Auclair as Herbert * Alexandra Stewart as Julie Hoffman * Claude Winter as The First Lady * Michel Boisrond as The First Minister Discography The CD soundtrack composed by Georges Delerue Georges Delerue (12 March 1925 – 20 March 1992) was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film music awards, including an Academy Award for '' A L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signes Extérieurs De Richesse
''Signes extérieurs de richesse'' is a French comedy film directed by Jacques Monnet, written by Alain Godard and Jacques Monnet, and released in 1983. Plot Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society and lives a wealthy lifestyle surrounded by young women and money. He relies on his trusty accountant, Jérôme Bouvier, to manage his finances. All goes well until the day that Béatrice Flamand, a tax inspector, shows up at his clinic, at which point Lestrade is now in trouble. Cast * Josiane Balasko: Béatrice Flamand * Claude Brasseur: Jean-Jacques Lestrade * Jean-Pierre Marielle: Jérôme Bouvier * Roland Giraud: Gerard Picard * Charlotte de Turckheim: Sylvie Picard * Jean Reno: Marc Letellier * Xavier Saint-Macary: Bianchi * Pascale Ogier Pascale Marguerite Cécile Claude Colette Nicolas (26 October 1958 – 25 October 1984), better known as Pascale Ogier, was a French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
