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Les Misérables (2012 film)
"Les Misérables" held its world premiere at Leicester Square in London on 5 December 2012, and was released 25 December 2012 in the United States and 11 January 2013 in the United Kingdom. It grossed over $441 million worldwide. The film received generally favourable reviews, with many critics praising the cast, with Jackman, Hathaway, Redmayne and Samantha Barks being the most often singled out for praise. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Jackman, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Hathaway. It also won four British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), including for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Hathaway. Additionally, it received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture (the first musical nominated since 2002's winner "Chicago") and Best Actor for Jackman, and won three, for Best Sound Mixing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Supporting Actress for Hathaway.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Shot in Los Angeles between February 24 and May 3, 2004, the film debuted at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival on May 14, and received a limited release in cinemas on October 21, 2005.
Irréversible
The film premiered in France on 22 May 2002 through Mars Distribution. It competed at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It was released in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2003 through Metro Tartan Distribution, and the United States on 7 March 2003 through Lions Gate Films. Audience reactions to both the rape scene and the murder scene have ranged from appreciation of their artistic merits to leaving the theater in disgust. "Newsweek"'s Ansen stated that "If outraged viewers (mostly women) at the Cannes Film Festival are any indication, this will be the most walked-out-of movie of 2003." In the same review, Ansen suggested that the film displayed "an adolescent pride in its own ugliness".
Les Misérables (2012 film)
Eddie Redmayne also received considerable praise for his performance with "Bloomberg News" saying that "Eddie Redmayne—most recently seen as the eager young production assistant in "My Week with Marilyn"—delivers by far the most moving and memorable performance in the film as the young firebrand Marius, who, along with his fellow students, is caught up in France's political upheavals in the 19th century."
Despicable Me 2
"Despicable Me 2" premiered on June 5, 2013, at Event Cinemas in Bondi Junction, New South Wales, Australia. Steve Carell and Miranda Cosgrove were present at the red carpet premiere. In France, it premiered on June 12, 2013, as part of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The American premiere was held at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles on June 22, 2013; Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Ken Jeong, Elsie Fisher, Dana Gaier, Nasim Pedrad and composer Pharrell Williams were present at the "yellow carpet" premiere. The film was theatrically released in the United States on July 3, 2013. It was digitally re-mastered into IMAX 3D format and released in select international IMAX theatres. This film was also shown in the 4DX format, featuring tilting seats, water sprays, strobe lightning, aroma, wind, pops, and ticklers, in selected countries. Cinépolis opened its first 4DX room at the Centro Comercial Limonar Premier mall in Cali, Colombia, with the release of the film.
Illumination (animation company)
The studio's first film, "Despicable Me", was released on July 9, 2010 and became a smash hit, earning $56 million on its opening weekend, and going on to earn $251 million domestically and $543 million worldwide. Illumination's second film was the live action/CGI hybrid "Hop" (2011), which opened to a much bigger than expected $37 million opening, and ended up with $108 million domestically and $183 million worldwide. An adaptation of Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax", debuted on March 2, 2012, earning $70 million on its opening weekend, and eventually found its way to $214 million stateside and $348 million worldwide. The studio's first sequel, "Despicable Me 2", opened in the United States on July 3, 2013, earning over $970 million worldwide, becoming the second highest-grossing 2013 animated film and breaking a record as the most profitable Universal Studios film in its 100-year history. The spin-off to "Despicable Me", titled "Minions", was released on July 10, 2015, and grossed over $1 billion worldwide.
Raphaël Haroche
In 1999, Raphael made a brief appearance in the comedy film "Peut-être" (French: "Maybe"), directed by Cédric Klapisch. He would subsequently had small roles in "The Dancer" (2000) and the television film "Les grand gamins". In 2010, Raphael portrayed the character of Louis in "Ces amours-là", directed by Claude Lelouch. The film was premiered in France on 15 September 2011.
Luc Besson
Many of Besson's films have achieved popular, if not critical, success. One such release was "Le Grand Bleu". 
"When the film had its premiere on opening night at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, it was mercilessly drubbed, but no matter; it was a smash," observed the "International Herald Tribune" in a 2007 profile of Besson. "Embraced by young people who kept returning to see it again, the movie sold 10 million tickets and quickly became what the French call a 'film générationnel,' a defining moment in the culture."
Retenez Moi...Ou Je Fais Un Malheur
Retenez Moi...Ou Je Fais Un Malheur is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Michel Gerard and starring Jerry Lewis, Michel Blanc, and Charlotte de Turckheim. It was released on January 11, 1984 in France by the Gaumont Film Company.
Les Cousins (film)
Les Cousins is a 1959 French New Wave drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. It tells the story of two cousins, the decadent Paul and the naive Charles. Charles falls in love with Florence, one of Paul's friends. It won the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
Vis Brown
Vis made his film debut in the DVD comedy, Malibu Spring Break, starring Playboy Playmate Pilar Lastra and directed by Kevin Lewis (The Third Nail). Vis earned a co-starring role on NBC's Crossing Jordan, starring Jill Hennessy in 2006. In 2007, Vis booked his first major feature film, The Lucky Ones (film), starring Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins & Michael Pena. The Lucky Ones (film), a Lionsgate Films release is directed by Neil Burger, director of The Illusionist (2006 film).
Tess (1979 film)
The film premiered in France in 1979 at a length of 186 minutes. Polanski writes in his autobiography that he felt that cut was incomplete, rushed to meet the release date. The film premiered in 1980 in the U.S. at a re-edited length of 170 minutes. Later, overseas releases of the film in theaters and on home video ran as little as 136 minutes. The 170-minute cut is Polanski's approved version of the film. This version recently was restored in 4K from the original negative under Polanski's supervision, and he attended its premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Callum Keith Rennie
Rennie's first appearance on screen was in the indie Canadian film "Purple Toast", filmed in 1990 and released in 1993. Also in 1993, he began to take small roles in television ("", "Forever Knight", and the revamped version of "The Outer Limits"). Rennie's profile within the Canadian industry was heightened during this period by leading roles in the television films "Paris or Somewhere" (1994) and "For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down" (1996). Due to several disagreements during the production of the latter film, Rennie vowed never to work for the CBC again, though he has remained a staunch supporter of the Canadian industry as a whole. After his first appearance on "The X-Files", he was offered the role of Alex Krycek but turned it down because he did not want to commit to a television series at that time. His career gained momentum quickly and larger roles in Canadian films followed (the independent short film "Frank's Cock" by Mike Hoolboom, and Mina Shum's "Double Happiness" as Sandra Oh's love interest, for which he was nominated for a Genie Award as best supporting actor). He also had more important roles on television series, as in a two-parter for "La Femme Nikita".
Ares (film)
Ares () is a 2016 French dystopian science fiction film directed by Jean-Patrick Benes. Ola Rapace stars as a boxer who is forced into testing a dangerous new performance-enhancing drug for one of the corporations that now controls France. It premiered at the Paris Comic-con on October 21 and was released in France on 11 November 2016.
Pierre Lebeau
His acting career started on the theatrical scene in 1975, after being graduated from the National Theatre School. He played in various plays until the 1990s and one television series in 1978. However it was in 1997 that his career became more prominent with his first major role in "Les Boys", playing the role of Meo, who is a friend of Stan (played by Rémy Girard) and businessman in which threaten to take Stan's bar if his garage league hockey team did not defeat this own squad made consisting of several tough players, albeit the Boys had defeated Meo's team. From the second movie, Meo plays in Stan's team after substituting a player. Lebeau played in all four chapters of "Les Boys" and will also play in the 2007 television mini-series along with most of the same actors that participated for part or all of the tetralogy including Marc Messier, Serge Thériault, Patrick Huard, Girard, Yvan Ponton and Patrick Labbé.
Les Monos
Les Monos is a French television drama and comedy series which premiered in France in 1999
The Unknown Girl
The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2016. Sundance Selects had previously acquired U.S distribution rights to the film. Mixed critical response to the film led to the Dardenne brothers making extensive cuts after Cannes, shortening the film by seven minutes than the original cut premiered at the festival. Luc Dardenne stated that "There are several critics who are also friends who liked it a lot but thought there were certain places in the film that didn’t work very well. I believe it was that which prompted our concern. We were ready to make changes." The new cut was officially shown in June at the Institut Lumière in Lyon, France. The film was scheduled to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival on 12 October 2016. The film was released in Belgium on 5 October 2016 and in France on 12 October 2016.
The Intouchables
The Intouchables ( ), also known as Untouchable (UK), is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama film directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy. Nine weeks after its release in France on 2 November 2011, it became the second biggest box office hit in France, just behind the 2008 film "Welcome to the Sticks". The film was voted the cultural event of 2011 in France with 52% of votes in a poll by Fnac. The film has received several award nominations. In France, the film won the César Award for Best Actor for Omar Sy, and garnered seven further nominations for the César Awards, including the César Award for Best Film, which it lost to the Best Picture winner "The Artist".
The Mist (film)
Filming for "The Mist" began in Shreveport, Louisiana, in February 2007. The film was commercially released in the United States and Canada on November 21, 2007; it performed well at the box office and received generally positive reviews. Darabont has since revealed that he had "always had it in mind to shoot "The Mist" in black and white", a decision inspired by such iconic films as "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and the "pre-color" work of Ray Harryhausen. While the film's cinematic release was in color, the director has described the black and white print (released on Blu-ray in 2008) as his "preferred version."
My Favorite Season
"My Favorite Season" premiered on 14 May 1993 as the opening film at the 46th Cannes Film Festival. With 1.1 million tickets sold, it remains Téchiné’s biggest box office success in France. The film was initially unable to acquire an American distributor and it was released in the United States only three years later, following the modest art-house success of Téchiné's subsequent effort, " Wild Reeds". It made $760,865 at the American box office, a respectable amount for a foreign language art film.
French Kiss (1995 film)
"French Kiss" was released in United States on May 5, 1995, and received mixed reviews. In his review in the "San Francisco Chronicle", Mick LaSalle wrote that director Lawrence Kasdan "takes what could have been a fluffy comedy with lots of plot complications and picturesque scenery and instead puts his focus on the important things: on the characters played by Ryan and Kline and how they happen to be feeling." LaSalle also applauded Kasdan's sense of subtle comedy:
LaSalle found Kline's performance "extraordinary" and that he not only perfected the accent but the "speech rhythms and the manner as well." LaSalle also praised Ryan's comic timing, which "continues to delight."
Little Miss Sunshine
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2006, and its distribution rights were bought by Fox Searchlight Pictures for one of the biggest deals made in the history of the festival. The film had a limited release in the United States on July 26, 2006, and later expanded to a wider release starting on August 18.
Illumination (animation company)
"The Secret Life of Pets" was released on July 8, 2016. Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney, the film would earn $104 million in its opening weekend, $368 million stateside, and $875 million worldwide. "Sing", a comedy written and directed by Garth Jennings, was released on December 21, 2016. It was the first movie for the studio to have a Christmas release. The film would earn $56 million in its first 5 days, grossing $270 million stateside and $634 million worldwide. It also holds the record for the highest-grossing film not to ever be at #1 in its run. "Despicable Me 3" was released on June 30, 2017, and became the 2nd film to earn $1 billion for the studio, and set a record for the highest theater count ever with 4,536 theaters in its 2nd week. The second film from Illumination based on a Dr. Seuss book, "Dr. Seuss' The Grinch", was released on November 9, 2018, and is directed by Peter Candeland and Yarrow Cheney from an adaptation by Michael LeSieur.
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Clouzot's next feature film was "Les Espions", which was released in 1957. "Les Espions" featured actors from around the world including Véra Clouzot, Curd Jürgens, Sam Jaffe and Peter Ustinov. "Les Espions" would be the last acting role for Clouzot's wife Véra, who had been suffering from severe heart problems since filming "Diabolique". "Les Espions" is set in a rundown sanitarium that is taken over by international spies. One of the spies claims to have invented a nuclear explosive device which attracts the attention of the Russian and American counterspies. "Les Espions" was not released in the United States and was a financial failure in France. Clouzot later admitted that he only liked the first two-thirds of "Les Espions". Producer Raoul Levy suggested Clouzot's next film should feature Brigitte Bardot as the lead actress. In response, Clouzot wrote the script for "La Vérité". Bardot plays Dominique Marceau, who is on trial for the murder of her former boyfriend Gilbert Tellier. As her trial progresses, the relationship between Dominique and Gilbert becomes more finely shaped. Bardot later described "La Vérité" as her favorite of all the films she worked on. Released in 1960, "La Vérité" was the second most popular film in France with 5.7 million spectators and was Bardot's highest-grossing film. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Le Doulos
"Le Doulos" was released in Paris on 8 February 1963. The Censorship Commission classified the film as forbidden to minors below the age of 13 as it was "in view of violent content which may shock children". The classification was removed in 1983 when the film was passed for all audiences.
Boy Meets Girl (1984 film)
A depressed, aspiring filmmaker falls in love with a suicidal young woman. Both have been recently dumped by their lovers and neither is coping very well. They meet via an apartment intercom system. Later the filmmaker sees her by the Seine. They finally meet in person at an elegant party and begin a long, strange conversation over a kitchen table. During the course of their talking, the two find themselves unable to resist their mutual neediness and this leads them to tragedy.The film premiered at the 1984 International Critics' Week, an independent parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival. It was released in France on 21 November 1984. Vincent Canby reviewed the film for "The New York Times": "Mr. Carax is 24, but "Boy Meets Girl" looks like the work of a talented 18-year-old, someone who still spends more time inside the Cinematheque Francaise than outside it. ... In "Boy Meets Girl", one recognizes a bit of Jean-Luc Godard here, something of Francois Truffaut there, and every now and then one hears what may be the faint, original voice of Mr. Carax trying to make himself heard around and through the images of others." Canby added however that ""Boy Meets Girl" has been handsomely photographed (by Jean-Yves Escoffier) in black-and-white images that look as velvety smooth as fudge sauce atop vanilla ice cream. The performances are perfectly decent -Miss Perrier is especially good in a long Godardian monologue. What's still missing is the film maker's own idiosyncratic personality, which, if it exists, could surface in Mr. Carax's next film." The film had a total of 131,042 admissions in France.
Let Me In (film)
With a budget estimated to be $20 million, the film was released on October 1, 2010, in North America opening at #8 on its debut weekend with an estimated $5.1 million in 2,020 theaters. The film's international release began on October 6 in European markets with other markets following thereafter. During the film's ten-week theatrical run, "Let Me In" grossed over $24 million worldwide, $12.1 million of which was from the United States and Canada. The film was #5 among the ten lowest-grossing releases of 2010 from major studios (movies released in over 1,500 theaters).
Despicable Me
A prequel feature film titled "Minions", featuring the Minions as the main characters, was released on July 10, 2015. Written by Brian Lynch, it was directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy. The film, set in the 1960s, focuses on the Minions before they met Gru, where they compete for the right to become henchmen of an ambitious villain, Scarlet Overkill, voiced by Sandra Bullock.
Mis dos amores
Mis dos amores is a 1938 American Spanish-language drama film. Directed by Nick Grinde, the film stars Tito Guízar, Blanca de Castejón, and Emilia Leovalli. It was previewed in New York City on August 11, 1938, and opened in San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 4. During production, its working title was "Mi primer amor", and it was the first of a series of films produced by U.S. film studios aimed at the Spanish language market in North and South America.
Je vous aime
Je Vous Aime (English title "I Love You All") is a 1980 French romantic comedy film directed by Claude Berri. Its cast comprises notable actors and actresses like Jean Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu and Serge Gainsbourg. It was first released in 1980 and it was shown in the US in 1981.
Les Enfants Terribles (film)
"Les Enfants Terribles" was released in Paris on 29 March 1950. The film did not gross as high as Melville's previous film "Le Silence de la mer". In Paris, the film took in 255,224 admissions and 719,844 admissions in France as a whole.
The Five of Us
The Five of Us () is a Québécois drama film, distributed by Remstar Distribution and Remstar Films. The film was directed and co-written by Ghyslaine Côté, and stars Jacinthe Laguë, Julie Deslauriers, Ingrid Falaise, Brigitte Lafleur, and Noémi Yelle. It premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 26, 2004, opened in theaters on August 27, 2004, and on DVD in February, 2005. The film follows four girls who strive to move on from the murder of their friend and the horrors of their past once they discover the man behind their trauma, Richard Thibodeau, is said to be granted conditional release from prison.
Mission: Impossible 2
"Mission: Impossible 2" was released in theaters worldwide on May 24, 2000 to strong box office results, and grossed over $546.4 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2000, and was the highest-grossing film in the series for 11 years. The film received mixed reviews; the action sequences, performances, direction, score and dramatic depth all received praise, but the plot, dialogue and pacing were all major sources of criticism. It was followed by "" in 2006.
Cupid's Mistake
"Cupid’s Mistake" had its theatrical release on August 24, 2001 in New York City, and critical reaction was mixed. David Sterritt, writing for "The Christian Science Monitor", noted the film’s “acting is uneven and most of the romancing seems so mismatched that it's not surprising when things fall apart time after time. But there are appealing moments along the way, and the director gets impressive mileage with a budget that can only be called minuscule.” However, Dave Kehr, writing for "The New York Times", complained: “Mr. Kang has discovered the effects button on his camcorder, and he relies upon it to provide what style his work has: a pixilated movement here, a fade to monochrome there. At 70 minutes, "Cupid's Mistake" is short, but then, so is our time on this planet.” And Ken Fox, writing for "TV Guide Online", noted: “Wearing its $980 price tag as a badge of honor, writer-director Young Man Kang's no-budget video feature proves two things: You don't need a multimillion dollar budget to make a film, and sometimes you get exactly what you pay for.”
"Cupid’s Mistake" was released on DVD on July 21, 2009 by Vanguard Cinema.
Juliette Binoche
Later that year she began work on Léos Carax's "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf". The film was beset by problems and took three years to complete, requiring investment from three producers and funds from the French government. When finally released in 1991, "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf" was a critical success. Binoche won a European Film Award as well as securing her third César nomination for her performance. In the film Binoche portrays an artist who lives rough on the famous Parisian bridge where she meets another young vagrant (Denis Lavant). This iconic part of the city becomes the backdrop for a wildly passionate love story and some of the most visually arresting images of the city ever created. The paintings featured in the film were Binoche's own work. She also designed the French poster for the film which features an ink drawing of the eponymous lovers locked in embrace. During a break in filming in 1990, Binoche spent five days shooting "Mara" for Mike Figgis, based on Henry Miller's "Quiet Days in Clichy". This 30 minute film was part of HBO's anthology series "Women & Men 2". The film became somewhat contentious when, according to Mike Figgis, HBO altered it once he had completed it. The film premiered on HBO in the U.S. on 18 August 1991.
The Mist (film)
In November 2013, Bob Weinstein revealed that he and Darabont were developing a 10-part television series based on the film. In February 2016, Spike picked up the pilot. In April 2016, Spike ordered the series. Emmy-winning director Adam Bernstein directed the pilot. It premiered on June 22, 2017.
Murderous Maids
Murderous Maids () is a French film directed by Jean-Pierre Denis, released in 2000, which tells the true story of two French maids, Christine and Lea Papin. The screenplay by Jean-Pierre Denis with Michèle Pétin, was based on the book " L'affaire Papin" by Paulette Houdyer. It told the story of the double murder committed by the maids, which made sensational headlines in France in 1933. The film had 360,846 admissions in France.
Mistigri (film)
Mistigri is a 1931 French drama film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Madeleine Renaud, Noël-Noël and Jean Debucourt. It was made at the Joinville Studios by the French subsidiary of Paramount Pictures.
Les Misérables (1952 film)
Les Misérables is a 1952 American film adapted from the novel "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and featured Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean, Robert Newton as Javert, and Sylvia Sidney as Fantine.Louis Jourdan was announced for the role of Marius.
"Les Misérables" was presented on "Lux Radio Theatre" December 22, 1952. The one-hour adaptation starred Ronald Colman, with Paget and Newton repeating their roles from the film.
Tell Me Lies
"Tell Me Lies" premièred on 14 February 1968 in New York City, and on 15 February 1968 in London. It was originally intended to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968, but was not, due to it being declared inappropriate in the political context of the time. At the Venice Film Festival, it received a special mention from the Jury and was awarded the Luis Buñuel prize.
Lovers Like Us
It was released in the U.S. by 20th Century Fox in April 1977. 
Scant days before her wedding to Vittorio, Nelly (Deneuve) has a change of heart and runs away. As Vittorio pursues her through Caracas, she turns for help first to Alex (Roberts), a previous employer, and then to Martin (Montand), a middle-aged French man she meets by chance. Martin drives her to the airport, where she gets a plane ticket to Paris. Returning by boat to his peaceful lonely life on an island off the coast, Martin is surprised and dismayed to find that Nelly has made her way there ahead of him. When he tries to return her to the mainland she sabotages the boat, causing it to sink. Marooned upon the island, Martin is forced to adapt to his new neighbor, who is determined to stay.The film recorded admissions of 2,373,738 in France.
Play Misty for Me
"Play Misty for Me" premiered in October 1971 at the San Francisco Film Festival and was widely released in November. It was a financial success, grossing $10.6 million at the box office against a budget of $950,000. It earned $5,413,000 in domestic rentals.
Les Uns et les Autres
Les Uns et les Autres is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch. The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work with "Un Homme et une Femme". It won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, it was distributed under the name "Boléro" in reference to Maurice Ravel's orchestral piece, used in the film. The film was very successful in France with 3,234,549 admissions and was the 6th highest grossing film of the year.
We're the Millers
The film was released in theaters on August 7, 2013 in the United States, and on August 23, 2013 in the United Kingdom. It was released on September 18, 2013 in France, and was released on November 8, 2013 in Spain.
Patricia Kaas
Her first successful encounter with the film industry remained in the field of singing, when she sang the title song to the 1995 film "Les Misérables", based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo and directed by Frenchman Claude Lelouch. Her earlier hit "Il me dit que suis belle" from the 1993 album "Je te dis vous" was also used by Bertrand Tavernier in his film "L'appât" (Eng: "The bait").
Les Misérables (2012 film)
"Les Misérables" was originally to be released 7 December 2012 before the studio moved it to 14 December in the United States; however, 18 September 2012, they delayed the film's release date to 25 December, so as not to conflict with the opening of "", which opened 14 December. Because of this, it opened alongside "Django Unchained". Release date for the United Kingdom was 11 January 2013.
Les 11 commandements
Les 11 commandements (or The 11 Commandments in English speaking countries) is a French comedy film, made in 2004, featuring Michaël Youn. It is comparable to the American film "". It was theatrically released in France in February 2004 and led the French box office in its first week of release.
Ash Adams
ABC cast him as the lead in a two-hour movie pilot they were considering to pick up as a weekly series, "Thunderboat Row". Even though the movie was well received, it never became a series. This was followed by a guest shot on the syndicated revival of "Adam-12", just before he was cast as François Gaultier in "Lionheart" (1990), alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme. On the heels of "Lionheart"s success at the box office, Adams was catapulted into heavier movie roles in "The Arc" (1991), "Original Intent" (1992), the indie flick "I'll Love You Forever..Tonight" (1992), the cult horror favorite "Puppet Master 4" (1993) and into an appearance in the short "The Privilege Cage" (1994). Occasionally during this time, Adams still turned up in some guest roles, including in two episodes of ABC's "The Young Riders" in 1990, playing Jeffrey Darnell.
Alistair Brammer
In 2009, he made his West End debut as Marius in "Les Miserables", where he spent 18 months in the role. He said of "Les Mis", "I should be sick to death of the show, but I can't get over it. It's my favourite." He also played the role of Jean Prouvaire in the "Les Misérables" 25th Anniversary Concert at The O2 on 3 October 2010.
Les Misérables (radio series)
Les Misérables is a seven-part radio series broadcast July 23 – September 3, 1937 (Fridays at 10 p.m. ET), on the Mutual Network. Orson Welles adapted Victor Hugo's novel, directed the series and starred as Jean Valjean. The 22-year-old Welles developed the idea of telling stories with first-person narration on the series, which was his first job as a writer-director for radio.
Lea Michele
Michele made her Broadway debut in 1995, at the age of eight, as a replacement in the role of Young Cosette in "Les Misérables". Michele was also the understudy for the role of Gavroche. This was followed by the role of the Little Girl in the 1998 original Broadway cast of "Ragtime". Michele had been portraying the part of the Little Girl for a year in the original Toronto cast, before the production was transferred to Broadway. As a child, she voiced a main character, Christina, in the animated film "Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night", released on October 13, 1998. In 2004, Michele began portraying Shprintze in the Broadway revival of the musical "Fiddler on the Roof", and understudied the role of Chava. She also performed on the cast recording of the show.
Les Chiefs
Les Chiefs is a 2004 Canadian documentary film directed by Jason Gileno. Les Chiefs follows the Laval Chiefs, a semi-pro team that plays in the LHSPQ, from the beginning of the 2001-2002 season until the start of the 2002-2003 season.
Milly Mathis
Milly Mathis (September 8, 1901 – March 30, 1965) was a French actress who appeared in more than 100 films during her career. Born on September 8, 1901 as Emilienne Pauline Tomasini in Marseilles, France, she made her film debut with a small, uncredited role in the 1927 German film, "Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney" (English - "The Love of Jeanne Ney"). Most of her parts would be in featured or supporting roles. Her final performance would be in a featured role in French film, "Business" (1960). She was also an occasional performer on France's legitimate stage. She died on March 30, 1965 in Salon-de-Provence, France, and was buried in the Cimetière Saint-Pierre in Marseilles.
Nicholas Mele
Nicholas Mele is an actor who has starred in many movies and on television. His first movie role was in the 1976 movie "The Ritz". Other movie roles include "Some Kind of Hero" (1982) and "Young Doctors in Love" (1982). His most well-known film role was in the 1988 hit horror movie "" as Dennis Johnson. A year later, he reprised his role in the hit sequel "". His most recent movie is the 2003 film "The Great Gabble".
May Fools
Milou en mai, released as Milou in May in the UK and as May Fools in North America, is a 1990 film by Louis Malle. The film portrays the impact of the French revolutionary fervour of May 1968 on a French village.
Free Men (film)
While at the mosque, Younes meets the Algerian singer Salim Halali. They become close friends. When Younes learns that Salim is Jewish and sees the work that the people of the mosque are doing, he stops collaborating with the police. The mosque has extended its hospitality to shelter European Jews seeking refuge in Paris and at risk during roundups by the Nazis. He becomes involved with Algerians who are part of the French Resistance, and who are also preparing for their own fight for independence from French colonialism after the war. Gradually he becomes transformed from being a politically ignorant immigrant into a fully fledged resistance fighter.The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on 19 May 2011, and was released in France and Belgium on 28 September 2011. The film saw a limited (4 screens) US release on 16 March 2012, and a wider (14 screens) UK release on 25 May 2012.
Through the Mist
Through the Mist () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and released in 2009. A biopic of rock musician Dédé Fortin of Les Colocs, the film stars Sébastien Ricard as Fortin.
Les Misérables (musical)
The first tour of the UK and Ireland opened at the Palace Theatre, Manchester 14 April 1992 with Jeff Leyton (Jean Valjean), Philip Quast (Javert, later replaced by Michael McCarthy) Ria Jones (Fantine), Meredith Braun (Éponine), Mike Sterling (Marius, later replaced by Richard Burman), Tony Timberlake (Thénardier), Louise Plowright (Mdme Thénardier), Sarah Ryan (Cosette) and Daniel Coll (Enjolras). The production then moved on to the Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, opening 30 June 1993, and then to Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland, opening 23 September 1993.
Paul Meurisse
Meurisse's first screen role came in "Vingt-quatre heures de perm", filmed in 1940 but not released until 1945. "Ne bougez plus" (1941) was the first of his films to be released. Thereafter his acting services were always in demand (in 1948 for example he was credited in no fewer than seven films). Meurisse played a wide range of roles, from gangsters ("Macadam", "Impasse des Deux-Anges") and policemen ("Inspecteur Sergil", "Le Dessous des cartes") to comedy (the "Monocle" films) and historical ("La Castiglione", "L'Affaire des poisons"). The quality of the films was variable, but Meurisse's versatility meant that his performance was often considered the best part of an otherwise mediocre effort.
Miss Meadows
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2014. The film was released on November 14, 2014, by Entertainment One Films.
Les Misérables (1909 film)
Les Misérables is a 1909 American silent historical drama proto-feature film (four short films that can be seen separately as a series, but when combined resemble a full-length feature film). The proto-feature movie is based on the 1862 French novel of the same name by Victor Hugo, and stars Maurice Costello and William V. Ranous. It was directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
Barton Fink
"Barton Fink" premiered in May 1991 at the Cannes Film Festival. Beating competition which included Jacques Rivette's "La Belle Noiseuse", Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever", and David Mamet's "Homicide", the Coen brothers' film won three awards: Best Director, Best Actor, and the top prize "Palme d'Or". This sweep of awards in major categories at Cannes was extremely rare, and some critics felt the jury was too generous to the exclusion of other worthy entries. Worried that the triple victory could set a precedent which would undervalue other films, Cannes decided after the 1991 festival to limit each movie to a maximum of two awards.
Mélanie Laurent
In addition to her film career, Laurent has appeared in stage productions in France. She made her theater debut in 2010 in Nicolas Bedos's "Promenade de santé". The short film "De moins en moins" (2008) marked her debut as a filmmaker. Her feature film directorial debut is "The Adopted" (2011). "Respire" (2014), her second production as a director, was screened at the International Critics' Week section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. She made her singing debut with a studio album "En t'attendant" in May 2011; the album contains twelve songs, five of which are co-written and co-produced by Irish folk musician Damien Rice.
Francine Mussey
Mussey was born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris as Marcelle Fromholt in 1897. She made her debut in the 1920 Lucien Lehmann-directed film "L'épave", opposite actors Marcel Bonneau and Jean-François Martial. She would go on to appear in a number of films throughout the 1920s and into the sound film era of the early 1930s directed by Louis Feuillade, Gaston Ravel, Alexandre Ryder and Jean Daumery, among others. She appeared in the 1927 epic "Napoléon" which ran for five and a half hours.
Les Boys
Les Boys is a 1997 Quebec-made comedy film directed by Louis Saia. It has spawned three sequels and by any measure (profit, box office or attendance) is the most successful Quebec made film series of all time, and one of the most successful Canadian-made film series of all time.
P'tit Quinquin (film)
P'tit Quinquin (released as Li'l Quinquin in the U.S. only) is a 2014 French murder mystery film/miniseries directed by Bruno Dumont. Originally premiering as a film at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in May (and subsequently for international releases), it was broadcast in September 2014 as a miniseries on French television. The prestigious Cahiers du Cinéma featured "P'tit Quinquin" on their cover of the September issue and placed it as the best picture on the 2014 Top Ten chart.
L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat
L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (translated from French into English as The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (US) and The Arrival of the Mail Train, and in the United Kingdom the film is known as Train Pulling into a Station) is an 1896 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière. Contrary to myth, it was not shown at the Lumières' first public film screening on 28 December 1895 in Paris, France: the programme of ten films shown that day makes no mention of it. Its first public showing took place in January 1896.
Mesrine (1984 film)
Mesrine is a 1984 French film written and directed by André Génovès. A biographical film based on the life of Jacques Mesrine, it focuses on the eighteen months following his escape from La Santé Prison in May 1978 until his death in November 1979. Nicolas Silberg stars as the eponymous lead character.Film critic James Benefield of "Little White Lies" magazine regarded "Mesrine" as "a pretty ropey, half-baked biopic", inferior to the later 2008 film starring Vincent Cassel. Benefield criticized Génovès' "bland direction" and "lack of imagination", likening the film to a television production rather than a cinematic release, and noted that "the film fails to come to terms with Mesrine’s controversial glamour and celebrity". The Blood wrote a song about Mesrine which preceded both the 1984, and 2008 movies. The song featured on the 1983 album False Gestures For A Devious Public.
Les Mistons
Les Mistons ("The Mischief Makers") is a short film directed by François Truffaut in 1957. It was his second film after "Une Visite" in 1955 but it is considered his "first short film of any real consequence". Truffaut simply called it "my first real film". Moreover, it was Bernadette Lafont's film debut. She was at that time Gérard Blain's wife. The film demonstrates already some examples for Truffaut's "trademark tracking shots" and would "help define his style" as well as "set Truffaut on a path for his career". Truffaut's narrative stresses the details of life, hereby establishing one of the traits of the French New Wave. Thus he also became a predecessor of French film directors such as Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Amélie"). It has been stated that the formation of the French New Wave could be "tracked through two short films": Jean-Luc Godard's "All the Boys Are Called Patrick" and Truffaut's "Les Mistons". In 2013 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City screened this film together with Truffaut's "The 400 Blows".
Denis Lavant
Lavant was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, in France. At 13, he took courses in pantomime and the circus, fascinated by Marcel Marceau. He trained at the Paris Conservatoire under Jacques Lassalle, and began his professional career in 1982 in theatre, acting in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and "The Merchant of Venice". In 1982 he appeared in the television film "L'Ombre sur la plage", before playing the minor part of Montparnasse in Robert Hossein's "Les Misérables", which was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize. He appeared in several further minor roles before making his breakthrough in 1984 as the lead in "Boy Meets Girl", playing a depressed, aspiring filmmaker who falls in love with a suicidal young woman. The film marked the directorial debut of Leos Carax, with whose films Lavant has been associated ever since.
Le Petit Prince a dit
Le Petit Prince a Dit is 1992 French-Swiss drama film written and directed by Christine Pascal. The film follows an estranged Swiss couple who re-evaluate their relationship with the discovery of their daughter's terminal illness. It premiered on 3 September 1992 at the Montreal Film Festival.
The Miser
"L'avare" is a French movie from 1980, directed by and starring Louis de Funès. The play was also filmed by the Comédie-Française in 1973.
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
At the Cannes festival in 1990 Christian Fechner allocated 70 million francs in order to finish the film. Unable to find financing partners, he provided his own money, purchasing both rights and debts of the picture. The picture was finished on 22 December 1990 and premiered out of competition at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival before arriving in French theatres on 17 October 1991. The film had 867,197 Admissions in France where it was the 34th highest earning film of 1991. Carax's most successful film to date.
Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables (; ), colloquially known in English-speaking countries as Les Mis (), is a sung-through musical based on the 1862 novel of the same name by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. The musical premiered in Paris in 1980, and has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and original French-language lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel. An English-language libretto and English lyrics were written by Herbert Kretzmer. The London production has run continuously since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after the original Off-Broadway run of "The Fantasticks".
Les Misérables (1967 film series)
Les Misérables is a 1967 film series of 10 parts each of 25 minutes produced by BBC Television and launched on 22 October 1967.
Jacques Rivette
Although he was the first New Wave director to begin work on a feature film, "Paris Belongs to Us" was not released until 1961, by which time Chabrol, Truffaut and Godard released their own first features and popularised the movement worldwide. Rivette became editor of "Cahiers du Cinéma" during the early 1960s and publicly fought French censorship of his second feature film, "The Nun" (1966). He then re-evaluated his career, developing a unique cinematic style with "L'amour fou". Influenced by the political turmoil of May 68, improvisational theatre and an in-depth interview with filmmaker Jean Renoir, Rivette began working with large groups of actors on character development and allowing events to unfold on camera. This technique led to the thirteen-hour "Out 1" which, although rarely screened, is considered a Holy Grail of cinephiles. His films of the 1970s, such as "Celine and Julie Go Boating", often incorporated fantasy and were better-regarded. After attempting to make four consecutive films, however, Rivette had a nervous breakdown and his career slowed for several years.
Leos Carax
He began his film career with a series of short films, and as a film critic, before he released "Boy Meets Girl" (1984). That piece established Carax's reputation for a mature visual style. It also saw the first grouping of Carax with Denis Lavant and cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier. He followed the piece with "Mauvais Sang" (literally "Bad Blood" but mostly known as "The Night is Young") in 1986, which alienated some of his audience, but the work continued to explore the complexities of love in the modern world, this time through a darker, more criminal viewpoint. The work was clearly an homage to French New Wave cinema, and his use of such actresses as Juliette Binoche proved a touching tribute to his influences, especially Jean-Luc Godard. The film was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
A Stranger Among Us
A Stranger Among Us is a 1992 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Melanie Griffith. It tells the story of an undercover police officer's experiences in a Hasidic community. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. It is often cited as one of Lumet's two failures of the 1990s, the other being "Guilty as Sin" (1993). Despite the poor reviews suffered by both these films, Lumet received the 1993 D. W. Griffith Award of the Directors Guild of America. The film was also the first credited role for actor James Gandolfini.
Michael Rennie
Buoyed by the strong critical reception and profitability of "The Day the Earth Stood Still", Fox assigned much of the credit to the central performance of Rennie. Convinced that it had a potential leading man under contract, the studio decided to produce a new version of "Les Misérables" (1952) as a vehicle for him. The film was directed by Lewis Milestone, known for his early sound version of "All Quiet on the Western Front". Rennie's performance was respectfully, but not enthusiastically, received by the critics. Ultimately, "Les Misérables" turned in an extremely modest profit and put an end to any further attempts to promote the 43-year-old Rennie as a potential star. (A project he was attached to in 1952 – "Arms of Venus" – was never made.)
List of accolades received by Inside Llewyn Davis
The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on May 19, where it won the Grand Prix. The film then began a limited release at four theatres on December 6, 2013, before later going on wide release at over 700 theatres on January 10, 2014 in the United States and Canada, by CBS Films. The film has grossed a worldwide total of over $32 million on a budget of $17 million. Upon release, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes surveyed 233 reviews and judged 95 percent to be positive.
Claude Chabrol
Chabrol quickly followed this success up with "Les Cousins" in 1958. The film is a companion piece and a reversal to "Le Beau Serge" in many ways, such as having the responsible student Brialy now play the decadent and insensitive Paul while the reckless Blain now plays the hard-working law student Charles. In this film, the country cousin Charles arrives in the big city of Paris to live with his corrupt cousin Paul while attending school. This was the first of many Chabrol films to include characters named Paul and Charles, and later films would often include a female named Hélène. More so than his first film, "Les Cousins" features many characteristics that would be seen as "Chabrolian", including the Hitchcock influence, a depiction of the French bourgeoisie, characters with ambiguous motives and a murder. It was also Chabrol's first film co-written with his longtime collaborator Paul Gégauff, of whom Chabrol once said "when I want cruelty, I go off and look for Gégauff. Paul is very good at gingering things up...He can make a character look absolutely ridiculous and hateful in two seconds flat." "Les Cousins" was another box office success in France and won the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
List of accolades received by The Artist (film)
"The Artist" is a 2011 French romantic comedy–drama film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The film is set in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining film star (Dujardin) and a rising actress (Bejo), as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the talkies. The film premiered at the 64th Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2011, where Dujardin won the Best Actor Award. It was released in France on 12 October 2011. Following successful screenings at the Telluride Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival, "The Artist" was released on 23 November 2011 in the United States. The film earned a worldwide box office total of more than $133 million. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, surveyed 275 reviews and judged 97% to be positive.
Les Misérables (musical)
The First National Tour opened at Boston's Shubert Theatre on 12 December 1987, and continued to play major cities until late 1991. The Second National Tour (called "The Fantine Company") opened at Los Angeles' Shubert Theatre on 1 June 1988. The production played for fourteen months then transferred to San Francisco's Curran Theatre where it enjoyed a similar run. The Third National Tour of "Les Misérables" (called "The Marius Company") was one of the longest running American touring musical productions. Opening on 28 November 1988, at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in Florida, and closing on 23 July 2006, at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, the tour ran for seventeen years and 7,061 performances. The tour played in 145 cities in 43 states. The same touring company also frequently performed in Canada, made a 1994 diversion to Singapore, and another diversion in 2002 to be the first Western musical production to visit China, opening in Shanghai's Grand Theatre for a three-week engagement.
Minions (film)
The film had its premiere on June 11, 2015, at Odeon Leicester Square in London, United Kingdom. On June 17, 2015, it was released theatrically in Indonesia and Australia. The next day, June 18, saw releases in Malaysia and Singapore, and a screening at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, in France. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2015. In the United States, the film premiered on June 27, 2015, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and went into general release theatrically on July 10, 2015. It was released in China on September 13, 2015.
Léonce Perret
Convinced that there was a future in talking films, Perret directed an adaptation of Huguette Garnier's famous novel entitled "Quand nous étions deux" in 1929. However, his first talking film met with only mild success compared to the other competing films of that period. In general, the Franco-Film company was having difficulty adapting to talking films. After he finished "Quand nous étions deux", Léonce Perret decided to leave the Franco-Film. He didn't quit the film industry, however; his next project was a collaboration with Adolphe Osso, the founder of the production company Osso. Together they shot Perret's first live sound film "Arthur". He followed that up in 1931 with a film adaptation of a play by Pierre Wolff and Henri Duvernois called "Après l'amour" starring Gaby Morlay, a film that was particularly successful in Belgium. Perret's next project was "Grains de beauté" in 1932, followed by "Enlevez-moi", a film that showcased the young actress Arletty as well as the veteran actor Roger Tréville.
The New Gentlemen
Les Nouveaux Messieurs ("the new men") is a 1929 French silent film directed by Jacques Feyder. It is a satirical comedy, whose initial release in France was delayed for several months because of objections to its portrayal of the French parliament.Suzanne Verrier, a dancer of mediocre talent at the Paris Opéra, is the mistress of an elderly aristocrat and conservative politician, the Comte de Montoire-Grandpré, who uses his influence to assist her career. She begins a romance with Jacques Gaillac, a young, left-wing electrician who is also a committed union organiser. Gaillac is elected to Parliament and become a minister, leaving him little time for his relationship with Suzanne. When the leftist government abruptly falls, Montoire-Grandpré's party returns to power, and he arranges to have Gaillac appointed to a post abroad. Suzanne reluctantly returns to the protection of Montoire-Grandpré.
Riad Sattouf
Moving into filmmaking, he directed his first film entitled "Les Beaux Gosses" (also known by its English title "The French Kissers"). It was released on 10 June 2009 with great success in France and 1 million viewers in just 2 months. In it, Sattouf portrays the love life and coming of age of adolescence. The film was nominated for three César Awards in 2010: Best Debut Film, Best New Male Actor (for Vincent Lacoste in the role of Hervé) and Best Supporting Actress (for Noémie Lvovsky in her role as Hervé's mother). It won the Gold Prize for Best Film Debut, Best Male Revelation for Vincent Lacoste and Anthony Sonigo, Best French Revelation for Direction and Production for Sattouf himself and the Jacques Prévert Prize for Best Scenario and Best Adaptation with his co-writer Marc Syrigas.
Under the Roofs of Paris
The film was first presented at the Moulin Rouge cinema in Paris from 2 May 1930, advertised as "100% talking and singing in French", but it did not at first have more than a modest success in its own country. In fact only about one quarter of the film could be described as 'talking', and this may have contributed to the disappointment with which it was greeted by many Parisians, eager to experience the new medium. Among the other criticisms which were made by French reviewers were the slowness of the narrative, the conventionality of the characters, and the systematic emphasis on the Paris of hoodlums and the underworld.
Despicable Me 2
"Despicable Me 2" premiered on June 5, 2013 in Australia and had a wide theatrical release in the United States on July 3, 2013. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $970 million worldwide against a budget of $76 million. It was nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and for Academy Award for Best Original Song (for "Happy"), losing both to Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Frozen". It became the second-highest-grossing animated film of 2013 and the third highest-grossing film of 2013. It is also the most profitable film in the 101-year history of Universal Pictures. A spinoff/prequel film, "Minions", focusing on the little yellow henchmen before they met Gru, was released on July 10, 2015. A sequel, "Despicable Me 3", was released on June 30, 2017.
Jacques Rivette filmography
In 1956 Rivette made the short film "Le Coup du Berger", which Truffaut credited as enacting the New Wave movement. The following year he began work on his first feature film with the initial support of Italian neorealist director Roberto Rossellini. "Paris Belongs to Us" was shot in the summer of 1958, but not released theatrically until 1961, after Chabrol, Truffaut and Godard had their feature-film debuts distributed and made the New Wave renowned worldwide. After staging a theatrical version of Denis Diderot's novel "La Religieuse" starring Anna Karina in 1963, Rivette became the editor-in-chief of "Cahiers du Cinéma" until 1965. He then began production on a film version of "La Religieuse", which led to a lengthy public battle with French censorship over the film's release. Finally released in 1967, the publicity made it financially successful.
Despicable Me (franchise)
The franchise began with the 2010 film of the same name and its 2013 and 2017 sequels "Despicable Me 2" (2013) and "Despicable Me 3" (2017). A prequel featuring Gru's Minions, titled "Minions", was released in 2015. A sequel titled "Minions 2" will be released in 2020. It also includes a simulator ride attraction, "Despicable Me Minion Mayhem", at Universal Studios Florida, Universal Studios Hollywood, and Universal Studios Japan. It is the highest-grossing animated film franchise in box office history, and the 13th highest-grossing film franchise of all time. It is also the first and only animated franchise with two films grossing over $1 billion worldwide ("Minions" with $1.16 billion and "Despicable Me 3" with $1.03 billion).
Les Misérables (1934 film)
Les Misérables is a 1934 film adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name. It was written and directed by Raymond Bernard and stars Harry Baur as Jean Valjean and Charles Vanel as Javert. The film lasts four and a half hours and is considered by critics to be the greatest adaptation of the novel, due to its in-depth development of the themes and characters in comparison with most shorter adaptations.
Musidora
Born Jeanne Roques in Paris, France and raised by a feminist mother and socialist father, Musidora began her career in the arts at an early age, writing her first novel at the age of fifteen and acting on the stage with the likes of Colette, one of her lifelong friends. During the very early years of French cinema Musidora began a professional collaboration with the highly successful French film director Louis Feuillade. But her first film was "Les miseres de l'aiguille", directed by Raphael Clamour in January 1914. The film show the problems of the urban women in the French working-class, and presents a new representation of the female even by the working-class movement in the early 20th century in France.
Yolande Moreau
She made her cinematic debut with director Agnès Varda in two movies: Sept pièces (1984) and Vagabond (1985). In 1989, she joined Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeieff's troupe, of which she became one of the stars, especially on the TV programme, "Les Deschiens". She played La Levaque in Germinal (1993) directed by Claude Berri, a concierge in the film "Amélie" (2001) and Mama Chow in "Micmacs" (2009) (both directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet), a mime in "Paris, Je T'aime" (2006) and a lovesick woman in "Vagabond" (1985) directed by Agnès Varda. She made her directorial debut with the movie When the Sea Rises, which she co-wrote and starred in. The movie was acclaimed by critics, and Yolande Moreau won two César Awards for Best Debut and Best Actress. Moreau stars in the French horror thriller film "The Pack", which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Her 2013 film "Henri" was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Michel Subor
Michel Subor (, born Mischa Subotzki (2 February 1935), is a French actor who gained initial fame playing the lover of Brigitte Bardot's character in "La Bride sur le Cou" (1961). The year before he had completed a starring role in Jean-Luc Godard's second feature, "Le Petit Soldat", but the French government banned it until 1963 because of its political content, touching on terrorism during the undeclared Algerian War. He acted in a couple of American films in the late 1960s like as Claude Jade's husband in Alfred Hitchcock's "Topaz". In 1999, he made "Beau Travail", a highly praised variation of "Billy Budd", directed by Claire Denis. He continued to work with her.
Bob le flambeur
"Bob le flambeur" was released in Paris on 24 April 1956. The film was Melville's lowest grossing at this point in his career. In Paris, the film took in 221,659 admissions and 716,920 admissions in France as a whole.
In the Battlefields
In the Battlefields (French : Sur les champs de bataille) ( maarek hob) is a 2004 Lebanese film by director Danielle Arbid. The film premiered on May 16 during the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, in the Directors' Fortnight section where the film ran for the Caméra d'Or during the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It is the first feature film by Danielle Arbid.
Les Charlots
With their increasing popularity as a genuine rock / comedy group, they received many offers to appear in films. Producer Michel Ardan hired them for their first film ""because his children had seen them on television and found them very funny..."" They starred in their first film, La Grande Java with comedian Francis Blanche in 1970, playing five members of a rugby team whose manager stole the money. The film wasn't very good, mostly due to the fact that Les Charlots weren't actors and didn't get along with director Philippe Clair (often considered to be one of the worst French directors ever). But surprisingly, La Grande Java was a hit with teen audiences. On the set, Les Charlots met a first AD named Claude Zidi, who later directed them in their best films.
Jean-Luc Godard
His most commercially successful film was "Le Mépris" ("Contempt") (1963), starring Michel Piccoli and one of France's biggest female stars, Brigitte Bardot. A coproduction between Italy and France, "Contempt" became known as a pinnacle in cinematic modernism with its profound reflexivity. The film follows Paul (Piccoli), a screenwriter who is commissioned by the arrogant American movie producer Prokosch (Jack Palance) to rewrite the script for an adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey", which the Austrian director Fritz Lang has been filming. Lang's 'high culture' interpretation of the story is lost on Prokosch, whose character is a firm indictment of the commercial motion picture hierarchy. Another prominent theme is the inability to reconcile love and labor, which is illustrated by Paul's crumbling marriage to Camille (Bardot) during the course of shooting.
Mireille Perrier
Mireille Perrier (born 14 November 1959) is a French actress. Her first starring role was in Leos Carax's "Boy Meets Girl" in 1983. Since then, Perrier has had major roles in other films such as "Un monde sans pitié", "Netchaïev est de retour", "Toto le Héros", "À vendre", "Le Comptoir", "Un dérangement considérable" and "L'entraînement du champion avant la course".
Christopher Miles
Attracted to the French attitude to the cinema, and their ways of life, Miles made the Rue Lepic Slow Race (1967), and also filmed an original Jean Anouilh screenplay ‘"Time for Loving"’ (1971) and later Jean Genet’s "The Maids" (1975) for the American Film Theatre. "The Maids" was shown out of competition at Cannes in 1975.