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Dominique Zardi
Dominique Zardi (born Emile Jean Cohen-Zardi; 2 March 1930 – 13 December 2009) was a French actor from Paris. He acted in more than 200 feature films, including ''Fantômas'' with Louis De Funès and Jean Marais. He died of cancer at the age of 79."Le comédien Dominique Zardi est décédé" ''L'Express'', 16 December 2009. He was the uncle of the actress and film director Agnès Jaoui
Agnès Jaoui (; born 19 October 1964) is a French actress, screenwriter, film director and singer.
Jaoui has won six César Awards, three Lumière Awards, and a Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She has received numero ...
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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 cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...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] |
Bartleby (1976 Film)
''Bartleby'' is a 1976 Cinema of France, French drama film directed by Maurice Ronet and starring Michael Lonsdale, Maxence Mailfort and Maurice Biraud. It is an adaptation of the short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville. Plot Bartleby is a loner who gets hired as a clerk when a lawyer is desperate to find a reliable assistant. Unfortunately, Bartleby isn't happy with his work. He falls into passivity and depression. When the law office moves, Bartleby prefers to stay in the abandoned rooms. People get fascinated by his strange behaviour. Cast * Michael Lonsdale as the bailiff * Maxence Mailfort as Bartleby * Maurice Biraud as Dindon * Dominique Zardi as Cisaille * Jacques Fontanelle as Gingembre * Hubert Deschamps as the manager * Albert Michel as the prison cook * Philippe Brigaud as the vice director of the prison * Michel Fortin as the taxi driver * Henri Attal as the prison guard * Maurice Ronet as the narrator Release ''Bartleby'' was released in France in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Linceul N'a Pas De Poches
''Un linceul n'a pas de poches'' (English: ''No Pockets in a Shroud'') is a French film directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky in 1974. Plot A journalist, Michel Dolannes, decides to use his newspaper to denounce the corruption of the established system. One day, he discovers a number of scandals before being shot for attacking the mayor of the town. Technical details * Director : Jean-Pierre Mocky * Screenplay : After the novel by Horace McCoy ''No pockets in a shroud'' * Adapted : Jean-Pierre Mocky, Alain Moury * Script : Alain Moury * Assistant director : Luc Andrieux, Eric Ferro * Photographer : Marcel Weiss * Camera : Paul Rodier, assisted by Christian Dupré * Sound : Séverin Frankiel, assisted by Bernard Le Du * Orchestration : Hervé Roy * Editing : Marie-Louise Barberot, assisted by Michel Saintourens * Scenery : René Loubet * Costumes : Sylvie Jouffa - Claude Gilbert, for clothes - and Jocelyn, for shoes * M. Mézières is dressed by Gudule and Dixieland Boutique, M. Mocky and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Before Nightfall
''Just Before Nightfall'' () is a 1971 French crime drama film written and directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Stéphane Audran and Michel Bouquet. Based on the 1951 novel ''The Thin Line'' by Edward Atiyah, it follows a married businessman who, after killing his mistress, tries to ease his conscience by confessing to his wife and the victim's husband. Plot Charles Masson, a married advertising executive and father of two children, has an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend François, an architect. During one of their sadomasochistic sex games, Charles strangles Laura. While the police does not suspect him, Charles' conscience drives him to confess his crime first to his wife Hélène and later to François. Both ask him not to turn himself over to the authorities, as this would not bring Laura back to life and only destroy his family. Charles becomes gradually convinced that Laura's death was not an accident but his intention, as he felt humiliated by her. Unabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Things Of Life
''The Things of Life'' () is a 1970 romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, based on the 1967 novel ''Intersection'' by Paul Guimard. The film centers around a car accident experienced by Pierre (Michel Piccoli), an architect, and the events before and after it. The film won the Louis Delluc Prize, and had 2,959,682 admissions in France, becoming the eighth highest-earning film of the year. Plot The structure of the film involves frequent jumps in time - between the time of, and after, the car crash, and before the crash. The opening sequence jumps between the period immediately after the crash, and the crash itself. In the French countryside on a summer morning, a lorry full of pigs stalls at a crossroads. An Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint swerves to avoid it and crashes into an orchard, hurling the driver, Pierre (Michel Piccoli), onto the grass. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he revisits the essential things which make up his life. A Paris architect in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo (film)
''Jo'' is a French comedy film, originally released in 1971. It is known in English-language territories either as ''Joe: The Busy Body'' or ''The Gazebo''. It was directed by Jean Girault and stars Louis de Funès as playwright Antoine Brisebard, Claude Gensac as an actress and his wife Sylvie Brisebard, and Bernard Blier as inspector Ducros. The script is based on a play by Alec Coppel, published in 1958, '' The Gazebo''. ''Jo'' is its second adaptation, the first one being the 1959 film '' The Gazebo'', starring Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds. In the film, a comic playwright is being blackmailed by someone who knows about his wife's familial relationship to a notorious criminal. The playwright decides to kill the blackmailer and to hide his remains in the foundations of his new pavilion. The supposed blackmailer is killed accidentally, and the body is hidden as planned. But the writer soon finds out that his blackmailer was murdered elsewhere, and that the man which he met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Man Must Die
''This Man Must Die'' (), also titled ''Killer!'' in the UK, is a 1969 French–Italian psychological thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol. It is based on the 1938 novel '' The Beast Must Die'' by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing as Nicholas Blake. The story follows a widower who, obsessed with revenge after his only son is killed in a hit-and-run incident, tracks down the driver with the intent to kill him. Plot Returning from the beach, Charles Thénier's young son Michel is killed by a hit-and-run driver in a sports car. Charles vows to have his revenge, keeping a journal in which he states his intention to kill the offender once he finds him. The police investigation is fruitless. Charles thinks the guilty party may run a garage, since there is no record of a car going in for repairs. By chance, while pursuing this hunch, he discovers that the actress Hélène Lanson was the passenger in a car that was damaged on the day of his son's death. Using his pen-name Marc Andrieux, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
