Marie-Christine Barrault

Marie-Christine Barrault

Born: March 21, 1944
in Paris, France
Marie-Christine Barrault (born 21 March 1944) is a French actress. She is best known for her performance in Cousin Cousine (1975) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she released her autobiography, titled This Long Way To Get To You.

Marie-Christine Barrault was born in Paris, France, the daughter of Martha (née Valmier) and Max-Henri Barrault. Her parents later divorced. Barrault's father, who worked in the theatre, died while she was a teenager. With no support, her mother was unable to care for her and her brother, Alain. Barrault was raised by her grandmother, Felicite. She was mentored in acting by her aunt and uncle, French performers Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud. They initially did not support her dreams of becoming an actress. She performed in plays in secondary school and then enrolled in an acting conservatory.

Barrault got her start on television in L'oeuvre (1967). She made her feature film debut in Éric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's (1969). In 1970 Barrault was featured along with Pierre Richard in the comedy film Le Distrait. In 1975 Barrault starred in Cousin Cousine, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She worked with Rohmer once again in 1978, in the role of Guinevere in Perceval le Gallois and she also has a cameo in his Chloe in the Afternoon.

Barrault is not fluent in English and therefore has generally turned down offers to appear in English-language films. However, in 1980 she accepted an offer from Woody Allen to appear in his film Stardust Memories. In 1988 she was nominated for a Genie Award for her performance in No Blame. In 1991 she portrayed Marie Curie in a television mini-series. In her later career, she has preferred acting on the stage in France. In 2015, she came to Los Angeles on tour to perform in the play Les Yeux Ouverts, in which she portrays French author Marguerite Yourcenar.

Barrault's first husband was producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, whom she married in 1965. With him, she had two children, David and Ariane. Barrault was married to director Roger Vadim from 1990 until his death from cancer in 2000. She herself is a breast cancer survivor.

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Released: October 12, 2023
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Title: Zénon the Rebel
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: December 11, 2019
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Character: Elisabeth Davout
Released: October 19, 2018
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Character: Jacqueline
Released: May 23, 2018
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Character: Jeanne
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Character: Violette Rivière
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Character: Denise Royan
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Character: Annie
Released: September 2, 2009
Type: Movie
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Character: Catherine Lepage
Released: April 23, 2009
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Character: Mélanie Bérangère
Released: May 23, 2007
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Character: Janine Cordey
Released: January 23, 2006
Type: TV
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Passés troubles
Title: Passés troubles
Character: Béatrice
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Title: Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Parlez-moi d'amour
Character: Élisa
Released: November 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Character: Chaterine de Médicis
Released: December 20, 2003
Type: Movie
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Azzurro
Title: Azzurro
Character: Elizabeth Broyer
Released: August 12, 2000
Type: Movie
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La Dilettante
Title: La Dilettante
Character: Thérèse Rambert
Released: July 7, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Le grand Batre
Title: Le grand Batre
Character: Thérèse
Released: September 14, 1997
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Grand Batre
Character: Thérèse Cabreyrolle d'Azérac
Released: September 14, 1997
Type: TV
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Ella Beckmann
Released: August 28, 1997
Type: Movie
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Un coup de baguette magique
Title: Un coup de baguette magique
Character: Jeanne
Released: August 27, 1997
Type: Movie
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Love, Math and Sex
Title: Love, Math and Sex
Character: La prof de maths
Released: August 5, 1997
Type: Movie
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Title: Mon père avait raison
Released: November 15, 1996
Type: Movie
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Title: Tendre piège
Character: Françoise
Released: May 10, 1996
Type: Movie
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Title: Studio Gabriel
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Bonsoir
Character: Marie Wileska
Released: January 19, 1994
Type: Movie
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Title: Crazy Love
Character: Louise
Released: December 8, 1993
Type: Movie
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Next Time the Fire
Title: Next Time the Fire
Character: Elena
Released: February 4, 1993
Type: Movie
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Necessary Love
Title: Necessary Love
Released: November 27, 1991
Type: Movie
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Title: Marie Curie, une femme honorable
Character: Marie Curie
Released: March 12, 1991
Type: TV
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Gallant Ladies
Title: Gallant Ladies
Character: Jacquette de Bourdeille
Released: November 14, 1990
Type: Movie
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Stormy Summer
Title: Stormy Summer
Character: Anne
Released: June 21, 1989
Type: Movie
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Jesus of Montreal
Title: Jesus of Montreal
Character: Dubbing actress
Released: May 17, 1989
Type: Movie
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The Silent Woman
Title: The Silent Woman
Character: Marianne
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Title: Women in Prison
Character: La surveillante chef
Released: October 12, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Student
Title: The Student
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1988
Type: Movie
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L'Énigme des sables
Title: L'Énigme des sables
Released: July 7, 1988
Type: Movie
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Sanguines
Title: Sanguines
Character: Nedie
Released: June 22, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Abyss
Title: The Abyss
Character: Hilzonde
Released: May 13, 1988
Type: Movie
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, where he thinks he has been forgotten. In this silent labyrinth where the faces of the past resurface, he rediscovers his identity and thus signs his death warrant.
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Adieu, je t'aime
Title: Adieu, je t'aime
Character: Nicole Dupré
Released: May 4, 1988
Type: Movie
A wife struggles with her husband's infidelity with another man and eventually gives herself to both of them.
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The Lizard King
Title: The Lizard King
Character: Beatrice Aumond
Released: February 28, 1988
Type: Movie
A woman travels from France to Australia in search of her missing son.
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Daniya, the emir's garden
Title: Daniya, the emir's garden
Character: Almodís
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Daniya is the story of a trip. A man of culture and resolute, the younger brother of the Countess of Barcelona, leaves the Catalan court for the kingdom of Denia (Daniya). The purpose of his trip is to accept the ecclesiastical authority entrusted to him by the Muslim king of Mozarabic Christians living in the territory of the Kingdom of Denia. It is an interesting but dangerous journey, described as an adventure. A journey that will enrich the spirit of the youth that will be seduced by Al Andalus.
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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Manuela's Loves
Title: Manuela's Loves
Character: Manuela
Released: June 17, 1987
Type: Movie
The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a protegee.
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Vaudeville
Title: Vaudeville
Character: Madeleine
Released: March 19, 1986
Type: Movie
The husband, the wife and the lover. The husband is tired of playing the eternal husband. The wife would like to live a last love story. The lover, seducer in the soul, only dreams of slippers. As a bonus, there is the brother-in-law, Santa Claus in a department store who carries jealousy in his sack. So everyone changes roles.
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L'été 36
Title: L'été 36
Character: Lise
Released: February 6, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vacation.
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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The Satin Slipper
Title: The Satin Slipper
Character: La lune
Released: September 24, 1985
Type: Movie
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
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Power Of Evil
Title: Power Of Evil
Character: Sylvie
Released: August 1, 1985
Type: Movie
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.
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Le Meilleur de la Vie
Title: Le Meilleur de la Vie
Character: Véronique's mother
Released: May 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of their different backgrounds, the two fall in love, marry, and eventually have a baby girl. At just about that time, Veronique decides to go back to school, and Adrien becomes both mother and father to their baby. Unable to cope with Veronique's new-found intellectual friends and different lifestyle, Adrien clashes with her, and their arguments lead to a separation for awhile. The two then get back together again, but not for long. It is on a return trip from visiting his mother in Brittany that Adrien's life undergoes a dramatic change, and his story takes an equally unexpected turn.
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Pianoforte
Title: Pianoforte
Character: Andrea
Released: March 20, 1985
Type: Movie
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Pianoforte
Title: Pianoforte
Character: La mère de Maria
Released: March 20, 1985
Type: Movie
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Louise... l'insoumise
Title: Louise... l'insoumise
Character: Mme Royer
Released: March 13, 1985
Type: Movie
While watching the others on her TV screen, Louise becomes a rebellious girl.
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Swann in Love
Title: Swann in Love
Character: Madame Verdurin
Released: February 23, 1984
Type: Movie
In early 20th century, Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes. He is madly in love with a pretty demi-mondaine, Odette de Crécy. Idle, Swann surrenders complacently to the torments of jealousy. After hours of suffering, he manages to spend a night with Odette. In the morning, he believes that ultimately, this one is "not his type". However, we find him, many years later, alongside Odette who, now his wife, gave him a daughter. In the company of Baron de Charlus, brother of the Duchess of Guermantes, he wonders about the failure of his sentimental life, so far removed from this absolute he dreamed of.
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A Love in Germany
Title: A Love in Germany
Character: Maria Wyler
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
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Les mots pour le dire
Title: Les mots pour le dire
Released: October 12, 1983
Type: Movie
A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
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Table for Five
Title: Table for Five
Character: Marie
Released: February 18, 1983
Type: Movie
J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie Perkins) and her new husband (Richard Crenna) to take the kids on a Mediterranean cruise. On the journey he comes to realise it's not that easy and, feeling overwhelmed, begins to doubt his abilities until a tragedy back home forces him to become the father he always hoped to be.
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Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi
Title: Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi
Character: Jeanne
Released: February 3, 1983
Type: Movie
Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.
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Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
Title: Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
Character: Jane
Released: January 28, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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L'amour trop fort
Title: L'amour trop fort
Character: Rose-Marie de Boisel
Released: April 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out on him, he clings to the young couple like ivy. However he soons becomes a dead weight and Rose-Marie threatens to leave if Charlie doesn't choose between her and Max.
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Stardust Memories
Title: Stardust Memories
Character: Isobel
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
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Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Title: Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Character: Eva
Released: April 16, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: Petit déjeuner compris
Character: Marie-Louise Leroux
Released: February 22, 1980
Type: TV
A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.
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My Dearest
Title: My Dearest
Character: Jeanne Rivière
Released: February 13, 1980
Type: Movie
Jeanne has been divorced for seven years now and her life is centered around Sarah, her fifteen year-old daughter. They appear to have a perfectly harmonious life together, a relationship based on deep mutual understanding and trust. So when Sarah needs a contraceptive, it's her mother who goes alone to the drugstore with her. However, under this idyllic surface there are tensions at work. Jeanne's on and off affair with Pierre does not save her from feeling lonely, and Sarah is bored by school. Both of them dream of an independent life, though neither will admit it.
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Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Title: Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Released: June 4, 1979
Type: Movie
Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.
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Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen
Title: Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Woody Allen's interview with France Roche.
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Perceval
Title: Perceval
Character: La Reine Guenevievre
Released: October 8, 1978
Type: Movie
The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes from the story of Gawain and the crucifixion of Christ.
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The Savage State
Title: The Savage State
Character: Laurence
Released: April 18, 1978
Type: Movie
L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suffers the outrage of her white acquaintances, including her former lover Gravenoir (Claude Brasseur) and her ex-husband Avit (Jacques Dutronc), for her affair with Patrice Doumbe (Doura Mane), an official in the new government. He in turn is ridiculed by his fellow cabinet ministers for stepping out with a white woman. The vilification escalates to such a point that Patrice is brutally murdered, and Laurence barely escapes the country alive, with the help of her ex-husband Avit.
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The Medusa Touch
Title: The Medusa Touch
Character: Patricia
Released: April 13, 1978
Type: Movie
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
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Le Chandelier
Title: Le Chandelier
Character: Jacqueline
Released: December 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André's suspicions about his wife's fidelity, Clavaroche suggests that Jacqueline take a "Chandelier".
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Cousin, Cousine
Title: Cousin, Cousine
Character: Marthe
Released: November 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.
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John Glückstadt
Title: John Glückstadt
Character: Hanna Hansen
Released: June 30, 1975
Type: Movie
Adapted from the novel Die Döppelgänger by Theodor Storm, this black-and-white drama tells the tragic story of a war veteran who, in 1860, returns to his home in Schleswig Holstein after serving a term for robbery. There he finds nothing but hardship and rejection, save from the town's mayor and a young servant girl, whom he marries. Ridiculed and abused, with practically no work, he turns to drink and one night accidentally kills his wife. The child of their marriage is taken away from him, and at this point he is left with the options of becoming a robber, starving to death, or emigrating.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Le tour d'écrou
Title: Le tour d'écrou
Character: Miss Jessel
Released: February 25, 1974
Type: Movie
A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, and that the ghosts mean harm to the children.
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La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
Title: La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
Character: Brigitte
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Histoire vraie
Title: Histoire vraie
Character: Rose
Released: May 5, 1973
Type: Movie
The tragic story of a young servant.
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An Ideal Husband
Title: An Ideal Husband
Character: Lady Chiltern
Released: October 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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Love in the Afternoon
Title: Love in the Afternoon
Character: Dream Sequence
Released: September 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
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Figaro-ci, Figaro-là
Title: Figaro-ci, Figaro-là
Character: Julie
Released: June 16, 1972
Type: Movie
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Menace
Title: Menace
Character: Francoise
Released: February 18, 1972
Type: Movie
An esteemed surgeon, Charles Bernard, and his family are victims of a violent home invasion. When his young child is held for ransom, Charles must decide whether to comply or fight back.
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Le sagouin
Title: Le sagouin
Character: Léone
Released: January 27, 1972
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a life of anguish and sadness in a sinister castle. He exasperates his mother who sees in him only the hated reflection of a husband she only married to become a baroness. Thanks to the kindness of the village teacher, Guillou glimpses for a moment the existence of another world, of gentleness and tenderness.
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Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu
Title: Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu
Character: The mother
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000
Character: Martine Lauzon
Released: September 24, 1971
Type: TV
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Le Misanthrope
Title: Le Misanthrope
Character: Célimène
Released: February 20, 1971
Type: Movie
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Lancelot du Lac
Title: Lancelot du Lac
Character: Reine Guinevere
Released: December 25, 1970
Type: Movie
This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round Tables and falls secretly in love with Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, for whom he wants to accomplish many deeds.
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Distracted
Title: Distracted
Character: Lisa Gastier
Released: December 9, 1970
Type: Movie
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
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« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
Title: « Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
Character: La sœur
Released: July 20, 1970
Type: Movie
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My Night at Maud's
Title: My Night at Maud's
Character: Françoise
Released: June 4, 1969
Type: Movie
The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
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L'empreinte de l'ange
Title: L'empreinte de l'ange
Character: La mère suprême
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie