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Jacques André Simonet
Jacques Perrin (; born Jacques André Simonet ; 13 July 1941 – 21 April 2022) was a French actor and film producer. He was occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Early life Jacques André Simonet was born on the Boulevard Port-Royal in Paris on 13 July 1941. His father, Alexandre Simonet (b. 1899) was the manager of the Comédie-Française and his mother was the actress Marie Perrin (1902 - 1983), whose surname he would adopt as his stage name once he began performing. He is also the nephew of the actor Antoine Balpêtré, who was also his sister's godfather. Until the age of eleven, he was educated at a boarding school. After obtaining his school certificate he left school at the age of 15 and worked as a teletypist at Air France and in various retail jobs before he entered the theatre world, working with Antoine Balpêtré. Three years later, Perrin enrolled in acting classes at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique. Career His first film role wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Cannes Film Festival
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 May to 24 May 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert served as jury president for the main competition. Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film ''The White Ribbon''. The festival opened with ''Up (2009 film), Up'' by Pete Docter, marking the first time that an animated film opened the festival, and closed with ''Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky'' by Jan Kounen. American filmmaker Clint Eastwood became the second recipient of the Palme d'Or, Honorary Palme d'Or. Juries Main competition The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2009 Official Selection: * Isabelle Huppert, French actress - Jury President * Asia Argento, Italian actress * Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkish filmmaker * James Gray (film director), James Gray, American director * Hanif Kureishi, British screenwriter * Lee Chang-dong, South Korean director * Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corruption (1963 Film)
''Corruption'' () is a 1963 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. Plot A young man upon finishing college announces to his publisher father that he wants to become a priest. The father who wants his son to take over the family business does not like this idea at all. He proposes a yacht trip to his son that will give them the chance to spend a few days together and maybe find a middle ground. Dad also invites his mistress without telling his son. During the trip there is a lot of sexual tension between the young man and the mistress. Despite the fact that she is his father's mistress the young man sleeps with her. The next day he asks for his father's forgiveness. After the trip the young man visits the company where he comes across a bizarre incident. One of the employees who was falsely accused of embezzlement commits suicide. Seeing that his father was responsible for the suicide, the young man feels sick and decides he has no place in such a company. Later on he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Papas
Irene Papas or Irene Pappas (, ; born Eirini Lelekou (); 3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022) was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as '' The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), '' Zorba the Greek'' (1964) and '' Z'' (1969). She was a powerful protagonist in films including ''The Trojan Women'' (1971) and '' Iphigenia'' (1977). She played the title roles in '' Antigone'' (1961) and ''Electra'' (1962). She had a fine singing voice, on display in the 1968 recording ''Songs of Theodorakis''. Papas won Best Actress awards at the Berlin International Film Festival for ''Antigone'' and from the National Board of Review for ''The Trojan Women''. Her career awards include the Golden Arrow Award in 1993 at Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Golden Lion Award in 2009 at the Venice Biennale. Early life Papas was born as Eirini Lelekou (Ειρ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Montand
Ivo Livi (; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known as Yves Montand (), was an Italian-born French actor and singer. He is said to be one of France's greatest 20th-century artists. Early life Montand was born Ivo Livi in Stignano, a small village in the hills of Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer. Montand's mother Giuseppina Simoni was a devout Catholic. The family left Italy for France in 1923 following fascist Benito Mussolini's rise to power. He grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's beauty salon (Salon de Coiffure), as well as later on the docks. He began a career in show business as a music-hall singer. In 1944, he was discovered by Édith Piaf in Paris; she made him part of her act. Career Montand achieved international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in many films. He is recognised for crooner style songs, with those about Paris becoming instant classics. He was one of the best known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (; 11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-World War II, war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke. He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in ''And God Created Woman (1956 film), And God Created Woman'' (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in ''A Man and a Woman'' (1966). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival, 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in ''The Man Who Lies'' and the Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival), Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's Z (1969 film), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa-Gavras
Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller '' Z'' (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and '' Missing'' (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including '' Hanna K.''. Early life Costa-Gavras was born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and moved to Athens after the war. His father had been a member of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance, and was imprisoned during the Greek Civil War. His father's Communist Party membership made it impossible for Costa-Gavras to attend university in Greece or to be granted a visa to the United States, so after high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Z (1969 Film)
''Z'' is a 1969 political thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jorge Semprún, adapted from the 1967 novel by Vassilis Vassilikos. The film presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963. With its dark view of Greek politics and its downbeat ending, the film captures the director's outrage about the junta that then ruled Greece. The title refers to a popular Greek protest slogan (, ) meaning "he lives," in reference to Lambrakis. A French and Algerian co-production, the film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as the investigating magistrate, an analogue of Christos Sartzetakis, who would become the President of Greece from 1985 to 1990. International stars Yves Montand and Irene Papas also appear, but despite their star billing, they have very little screen time. Jacques Perrin, who also produced the film, plays a key role as a photojournal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (, , ), is a French actress. She is considered one of the greatest European actresses on film. In 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Deneuve made her screen debut in 1957 at age 13, in a film shot the previous year when she was only 12. A major figure of the French New Wave, New Wave, she became, like Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon, one of the best-known French artists in the world. In a career spanning nearly 70 years, she has played more than a hundred roles and is recognized in France and internationally for being one of the key faces of the Musical film, musical film genre with appearances in ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'', ''The Young Girls of Rochefort,'' ''Donkey Skin (film), Donkey Skin'', ''8 Women'' and ''The Beloved (2011 film), The Beloved.'' Early in her career, she gained acclaim for her portrayals of aloof and myste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donkey Skin (film)
''Donkey Skin'' (; also known in English as ''Once Upon a Time'' and ''The Magic Donkey'') is a 1970 French musical fantasy romance comedy film directed by Jacques Demy, based on '' Donkeyskin'', a 1695 fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a king who wishes to marry his own daughter. It stars Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais, with music by Michel Legrand. ''Donkey Skin'' proved to be Demy's biggest success in France, with a total of 2,198,576 tickets sold. ''Donkey Skin'' is distributed on DVD in North America by Koch-Lorber Films. It is also available in Blu-ray format as part of Criterion's ''The Essential Jacques Demy'' collection. In France, the film is considered a cult classic. Plot The king promises his dying queen that after her death he will only marry a woman as beautiful and virtuous as she. Pressed by his advisers to remarry and produce an heir, he comes to the conclusion that the only way to fulfill his promise is to marry his own daughter, the princess. Follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young Girls Of Rochefort
''The Young Girls of Rochefort'' () is a 1967 French musical comedy film written and directed by Jacques Demy. The ensemble cast is headlined by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac, and features George Chakiris, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin, Grover Dale and Geneviève Thénier, along with Gene Kelly and Danielle Darrieux. Michel Legrand composed the score for the film, to Demy's lyrics. The most famous songs from the film are "A Pair of Twins" ("Chanson des Jumelles") and Maxence's Song ("Chanson de Maxence"), which was later relyricized by Alan and Marilyn Bergman as "You Must Believe in Spring". The dance sequences were choreographed by Norman Maen. The film was a success for Demy in his native France, with 1,319,432 admissions, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture — Original or Adaptation at the 41st Academy Awards. A stage musical based on the film was produced in France in 2003, adapted by Alain Boub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their Style (visual arts), visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the En plein air, plein-air Realism (arts), realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping Continuity (fiction), continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964) and ''The Young G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Captain's Honor
''A Captain's Honor'' () is a 1982 French war film directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer. Plot A courtroom-drama about a dead Captain whose memory is publicly accused by a historian on TV, twenty years after his death. The story follows his widow's struggle to prove that he was not a murderer and did not practise torture while he was leading a ground unit during the Algerian war. She decides to sue the man who accused him of being a torturer and thus begins an investigation which retraces the Captain's last two weeks, day by day. The film uses numerous flashbacks depicting battle scenes in Algeria. Cast *Nicole Garcia (Patricia Caron, the widow) *Jacques Perrin (Marcel Caron, the captain) *Georges Wilson (the barristers president) *Charles Denner (Gillard, the defense counsel) *Claude Jade (Valouin, the lawyer of the indictment) *Georges Marchal (General Keller, a witness) * Christophe Malavoy (Automarchi, a witness) * Jean Vigny (Prof. Paulet, a historian) *Florent Pagny Floren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
