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The Villain (2009 Film)
''The Villain'' (french: Le Vilain) is a 2009 French comedy film written and directed by and starring Albert Dupontel. Plot Sydney Thomas, a gangster nicknamed Le Vilain, decides to hide from the police by going to his mother's. She discovers that he hid from her his "rogue" nature since his childhood and promises to God to make him repent, but Sydney would prefer to kill his mother. Cast * Catherine Frot as Maniette Thomas, Sydney's mother * Albert Dupontel as Sydney Thomas, "le Vilain" * Bouli Lanners as Nick Korazy * Nicolas Marié as Doc William * Bernard Farcy as Inspector Elliot * Christine Murillo as Carmen Somoza, the Spanish teacher * Jacqueline Herve as Huguette * Philippe Duquesne Philippe Duquesne (born 30 June 1965) is a French actor. He is best known for playing in the cult TV series ''Les Deschiens'' (1993–2002), in which he plays alongside Yolande Moreau. Theater Filmography References External links ... as The redhead painter * Husky Kihal as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Dupontel
Albert Dupontel (; born 11 January 1964) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Following his father's path, he studied medicine but eventually switched to theater, disillusioned by hospital life. He started his career as a stand-up comedian. In February 1998, his film '' Bernie'' took the Grand Prize at the 9th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival The , also sometimes called YIFFF, is held in a resort-like environment in the small town of Yūbari on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaidō. From 1990 to 1999, the festival was known as the Yubari International Fantastic Adventure Fi ... which was attended by Dupontel. One-man shows Filmography As actor As filmmaker References External links official website* 1964 births Living people People from Saint-Germain-en-Laye French people of Breton descent French male film actors French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters French humorists French stand-up come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Frot
Catherine Frot (; born 1 May 1956) is a French actress. A 10-time César Award nominee, she won the awards for Best Actress for '' Marguerite'' (2015) and Best Supporting Actress for '' Family Resemblances'' (1996). Her other films include ''Le Dîner de Cons ''Le Dîner de Cons'' () is a French comedy play by Francis Veber. Story Pierre Brochant, a Parisian publisher, attends a weekly "idiots' dinner", where guests, who are prominent Parisian businessmen, must bring along an "idiot" whom the other ...'' (1998), '' La Dilettante'' (1999), and '' Haute Cuisine'' (2012). Early life Frot was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher. Her younger sister, Dominique, is also an actress. Catherine demonstrated comic talent at an early age, and enrolled in the Versailles conservatory when she was 14, and was still in school. In 1974, she began her education at the school, and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Julien
Christophe Julien is a French composer of film and television music, largely classical, twice-nominated for César Awards, César Award for César Award for Best Original Music, best original film music. Background Christophe Julien was born on November 14, 1972, in Dijon Côte-d'Or, France. At the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris he studied under guitarist Alexandre Lagoya in harmony, counterpoint, 20th-century music, and chamber music. At the Sorbonne University 1, he studied Indian music and musicology. Career Julien's first musical creations were for cinema: short films, documentaries, and commercials. The first commercial success came in 2008 with the comedic ''Vilaine (film)'', which began his collaboration with Albert Dupontel on ''Le Vilain'', followed by ''9 mois ferme'' (2013) and ''Au revoir là-haut'' (2017, with score nominated for the 43rd César Awards in 2018). He also composed music for Irena Salina's documentary ''Flow: For Love of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
StudioCanal
StudioCanal S.A.S. (formerly known as Le Studio Canal+, Canal Plus, Canal+ Distribution, Canal+ D.A., Canal+ Production, and Canal+ Image and also known as StudioCanal International) is a French film production and distribution company that owns the third-largest film library in the world. The company is a unit of the Canal+ Group, owned by Vivendi. Background The company was founded in 1988 by Pierre Lescure as a spin-off of the Canal+ pay-TV network. The original function was to focus on French and European productions, but later made strategic deals with American production companies, such as Carolco Pictures. StudioCanal's most notable productions from its early years include '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', ''JFK'', ''Basic Instinct'', ''Cliffhanger'', '' Under Siege'', ''Free Willy'', and the original ''Stargate'' movie. In those days, it was known as either Le Studio Canal+ or simply Canal+. Other films the company financed include '' U-571'', '' Bully'', and '' Bridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film and it is derived from the classical comedy in theatre. Some of the earliest silent films were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1930s, comedy films took another swing, as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue. Comedy, compared with other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. In '' The Screenwriters Taxonomy'' (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story. Therefore the labels "drama" and "comedy" a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouli Lanners
Philippe "Bouli" Lanners (born 20 May 1965) is a Belgian actor, author and film director. His film '' The Giants'' was nominated for twelve Magritte Awards, winning five, including Best Film and Best Director. Biography Lanners was born on 20 May 1965 in Moresnet-Chapelle, Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to .... His mother was a cleaning lady and his father was a customs agent. He spent a year at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège, after which he continued to paint while doing odd jobs until turning his attention to cinema at the turn of the century. Filmography As actor As director & writer As producer References External links * 1965 births Living people 20th-century Belgian male actors 21st-century Belgian male actors Belg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Marié
Nicolas Marié is a French actor and writer. Theater Filmography Dubbing References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marie, Nicolas French male film actors Living people 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) French male stage actors French male television actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Farcy
Bernard Farcy (born 17 March 1949) is a French actor who has starred in over 70 plays, television series and films. He is best known for his role as Gérard Gibert in Luc Besson's action-comedy franchise ''Taxi'', as well as his appearances in national box-office successes such as '' Marche à l'ombre'' (1984), '' The Three Brothers'' (1995), ''Brotherhood of the Wolf'' (2001) and '' Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra'' (2002), the latter of which has attained cult status in France. Farcy's performances in more somber movies—to the likes of '' Our Story'' (1984), ''Le Solitaire'' (1987) and '' Let Sleeping Cops Lie'' (1988)—have also been noted. His interpretation of statesman Charles de Gaulle in the TV mini-series ''Le Grand Charles ''Le Grand Charles'' is a 2006 French television miniseries on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959, written and directed by Bernard Stora. Plot Cast * Bernard Farcy as Charles de Gaulle * Danièle Lebrun as Yvonne de Gaulle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Duquesne
Philippe Duquesne (born 30 June 1965) is a French actor. He is best known for playing in the cult TV series ''Les Deschiens'' (1993–2002), in which he plays alongside Yolande Moreau. Theater Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duquesne, Philippe French male film actors Living people 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French male stage actors French male television actors 1965 births People from Béthune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s French-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Comedy Films
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Films
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards). Evaluation of the year Film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' said that 2009 "began with the usual flurry of serious major movies given late December screenings in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. They're now forgotten or vaguely regarded as semi-classics: ''The Reader'', '' Che'', '' Slumdog Millionaire'', '' Frost/Nixon'', ''Revolutionary Road'', '' The Wrestler'', '' Gran Torino'', '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. It soon became apparent that horror movies would be the dominant genre once again, with vampires the pre-eminent sub-species, the most profitable inevitably being ''New Moon'', the latest in Stephenie Meyer's '' Twilight'' saga, the best th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
