Marie Rivière

Marie Rivière

Born: December 22, 1956
in Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
Marie Rivière (born 22 December 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with director Éric Rohmer.

From a working-class background, Marie Rivière grew up on a housing estate/project in Montreuil before working as a schoolteacher, then as a shop assistant. At 21, having seen L'Amour l'après-midi, she sent a letter and photo to Éric Rohmer. He saw her in his office at Les films du losange, in the presence of Arielle Dombasle and Thierry Lhermitte, and offered her a small role in Perceval le Gallois. Two years later she appeared in Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife, the first in the Comédies et Proverbes series. The Green Ray, in which she played the fragile dreamer Delphine, was a critical and popular success, and won the Golden Lion at Venice. In 1998 she appeared again for Rohmer in Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale), alongside another Rohmer muse, Béatrice Romand.

She co-directed her first film in 1993, with Marc Rivière, La Règle du Silence.

Movies for Marie Rivière...

Just the Two of Us
Title: Just the Two of Us
Character: Blanche’s Mother
Released: May 24, 2023
Type: Movie
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
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L'Établi
Title: L'Établi
Character: Robert's mother
Released: April 5, 2023
Type: Movie
A few months after May '68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a far-left activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a line worker. Like other comrades, he wants to infiltrate the factory to rekindle the revolutionary fire, but the majority of workers no longer want to hear about politics. When Citroën decides to pay back the Grenelle Agreements by requiring workers to work 3 hours overtime per week for free, Robert and some others see the possibility of a social movement.
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Marinaleda
Title: Marinaleda
Released: January 29, 2023
Type: Movie
Marinaleda features two philosophical vampires trying to reach the self-managed village of Marinaleda in southern Spain.
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Eva voudrait
Title: Eva voudrait
Character: Emmanuelle
Released: September 20, 2020
Type: Movie
Éva, thirty-nine, lives alone. She would like to have a child. She may not have much time left. A gynecologist has just told her that her ovarian reserve is deplorable. The countdown begins. But she's instinctive, a bit messy and her battle plan lacks precision.
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My Donkey, My Lover & I
Title: My Donkey, My Lover & I
Character: Claire
Released: September 16, 2020
Type: Movie
Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track, by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey.
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Dark Flow
Title: Dark Flow
Released: February 2, 2020
Type: Movie
As every summer, a man and a woman spend time in their country house by the forest. They have moved further from each other. This intimate place opens a passage.
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Féminin plurielles
Title: Féminin plurielles
Character: Professor
Released: March 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Sweet works in a hospital as a nurse. A new patient has just been admitted. Her mysterious side and her literary tastes fascinate the young woman. Delphine, executive in the same establishment, welcomes a German photographer who came for a report. The attraction is immediate between the two women. Hafsia, who wears the veil and could be refused an exam, meets an exuberant young man whom she falls in love with. She must hide this relationship from her father ...
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Down by Love
Title: Down by Love
Character: Mère Anna
Released: March 2, 2016
Type: Movie
A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story.
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Courted
Title: Courted
Character: Marie-Laure Racine
Released: November 18, 2015
Type: Movie
When a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte Lorensen-Coteret, at a murder trial, their shared past is slowly uncovered.
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This Summer Feeling
Title: This Summer Feeling
Character: Adélaïde
Released: October 11, 2015
Type: Movie
In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York.
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Sex, Love & Therapy
Title: Sex, Love & Therapy
Character: Martine
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Lambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He stays abstinent for several months, but his alluring assistant's unbridled sexuality tests his resolve.
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Madeleine and the Two Apaches
Title: Madeleine and the Two Apaches
Character: Madeleine
Released: June 13, 2014
Type: Movie
A short film by French director Christelle Lheureux.
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El Turrrf
Title: El Turrrf
Character: Suzanne
Released: November 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Paris, at night. Pierre lands up in a club, El Turrrf, and meets two young ladies. Pom and Clémentine are accustomed to the place and are not going to delay saying to him why they are here.
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A Castle in Italy
Title: A Castle in Italy
Character: Nathan's Mother
Released: October 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.
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Bright Days Ahead
Title: Bright Days Ahead
Character: Jocelyne
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?
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My Sense of Modesty
Title: My Sense of Modesty
Released: June 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Hafsia, a student in Art History, is going to have to remove her hijab for an oral exam. She goes to the Louvre to view the painting that she has to comment on.
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Under the Snow
Title: Under the Snow
Released: November 2, 2012
Type: Movie
In a city covered by snow, the young Paul lives alone with his mother since his father left. Not far away, lives an old man of foreign origin with whom Paul has a strange relationship.
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Memory Lane
Title: Memory Lane
Character: Aude
Released: November 24, 2010
Type: Movie
August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to see their family, some are searching their childhood, some want to escape boredom or eventually searching for love. They are all bearing the fact that these moments they are sharing are maybe the last ones.
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In the Company of Éric Rohmer
Title: In the Company of Éric Rohmer
Character: Self
Released: August 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Éric Rohmer converses with collaborators and admirers.
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Hideaway (Le refuge)
Title: Hideaway (Le refuge)
Character: La femme sur la plage
Released: December 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge.
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Actresses
Title: Actresses
Character: The costume designer
Released: December 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don’t go to plan.
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Le Canapé rouge
Title: Le Canapé rouge
Released: June 30, 2005
Type: Movie
How to stay at your lover's side (who's married to another woman) all day long without anyone noticing...
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Love Is in the Air
Title: Love Is in the Air
Character: La mère de Charlotte
Released: June 17, 2005
Type: Movie
Yann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots’ abilities under extreme conditions on flight simulators. But Yann has a big problem: he is so airsick since he was born in a plane, that he couldn’t even follow the love of his life when she moved to Australia. Yann is now thirty years old and remembers with both nostalgia and humour the numerous love stories he spoiled because of his phobia. Will he finally accept to become a grown up or will he keep making plans in the air?
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Time to Leave
Title: Time to Leave
Character: Mère
Released: May 16, 2005
Type: Movie
Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Title: Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.
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Clandestino
Title: Clandestino
Character: La conductrice
Released: October 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A child, secret war refugee, deceived by his father, is taken in by a man living in the solitude of a garden between sea and mountain. Left to his own devices, he must find his own way as he is shunted around between untrustworthy adults. A modern tale.
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Zéro défaut
Title: Zéro défaut
Character: Simone
Released: May 5, 2003
Type: Movie
A car factory, assembly lines, robots. And men and women whose... Michèle moves to the night shift, with the secret hope of changing her hours to change her life. Farouk is retiring after 35 years on the line. Suddenly, the stop, the silence. Jeremie, Michèle's husband, is a team leader in the sheet metal and finishing workshop, a job that costs him too much. 13 hours to make a car. How many days for a love to be born or broken?
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The Lady and the Duke
Title: The Lady and the Duke
Character: Madame Laurent
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.
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Marie-Line
Title: Marie-Line
Character: Louise
Released: December 20, 2000
Type: Movie
A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for laziness and no tolerance for employees who do less than a perfect job. But Marie-Line's bosses are in the midst of a money crunch and they've cut back on her budget, so when several of her employees quit, she has to find new cleaners willing to work for a lower wage. Marie-Line soon finds new workers willing to work hard for low pay, but there's a catch -- most of them are illegal aliens, smuggled into France from Africa, Albania, or the Middle East, and when police begin asking questions about Marie-Line's new cleaners, she has to scramble to cover for them.
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Samia
Title: Samia
Character: La conseillère d'orientation
Released: November 15, 2000
Type: Movie
Samia is a teenage girl belonging to a family of Algerian Muslims who have settled in the southern French town of Marseilles. Although lured by the pleasures and opportunities that contemporary Western culture offers her, Samia is continually restrained by her family. Naturally, they expect her to follow their traditions to the letter and, for a woman, this means staying at home all day looking after their men folk. In the end, Samia has no option but to rebel against her family and find a new life for herself…
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Girls Can't Swim
Title: Girls Can't Swim
Character: Anne-Marie
Released: October 18, 2000
Type: Movie
Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.
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Venus Beauty Institute
Title: Venus Beauty Institute
Character: La cliente aux bottines fourées
Released: February 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.
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A Tale of Autumn
Title: A Tale of Autumn
Character: Isabelle
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: Movie
Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
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Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
Title: Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
Character: La mere
Released: October 17, 1995
Type: Movie
In this coming of age drama, 17-year old Muriel rebels against her French family and leaves for the bright lights of Paris. When she falls for Nora, Muriel enters a journey of heartbreak and discovery.
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The Stolen Diary
Title: The Stolen Diary
Character: Lucie
Released: April 28, 1993
Type: Movie
A young woman in a lesbian relationship keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her.
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A Tale of Winter
Title: A Tale of Winter
Character: Dora
Released: January 29, 1992
Type: Movie
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
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Adrien's Sleep
Title: Adrien's Sleep
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Marie lives with her daughter in a large Parisian apartment. She rents a room to a student: Adrien.
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Les lutteurs immobiles
Title: Les lutteurs immobiles
Character: Judith
Released: August 2, 1988
Type: Movie
The consumer society is dead. Welcome to the preservation society! As of their first school year, children are taught to love objects, which most of them do. But not all citizens. To remedy the problem, The security forces crack down on vandals, bands of protesters and other iconoclasts. And for greater efficiency the States uses the services of Kief, a mad scientist who operates on prisoners so as to pair them with totem-objects. Which is why Judith gets wrinkles when her clothes are creased. Which is why the skin of librarian Mikoski gets pierced with holes whenever rats gnaw at his books.
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Le bonheur se porte large
Title: Le bonheur se porte large
Character: Isabelle
Released: June 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Bruno Tessier, a wise executive, was on his way to join his wife and children on vacation on the Côte d'Azur when a hitchhiker forced her presence on him.
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Rosette vole les voleurs
Title: Rosette vole les voleurs
Character: Rosette's friend
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Title: Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Character: L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
Released: February 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
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Rosette cherche une chambre
Title: Rosette cherche une chambre
Character: Florence
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Green Ray
Title: The Green Ray
Character: Delphine
Released: August 29, 1986
Type: Movie
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
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Folie suisse
Title: Folie suisse
Character: Anna Daubigny
Released: June 10, 1985
Type: Movie
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Rosette vend des roses
Title: Rosette vend des roses
Character: Rosette's friend
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of regular players from Rohmer films. With the help of her friends, Rosette takes advantage of a gullible stranger passing by in order to sell him all her roses.
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Raison perdue
Title: Raison perdue
Character: Paula
Released: December 5, 1984
Type: Movie
A young girl accuses her parents of being murderers. Hurriedly committed to an asylum, she attracts the attention of a psychologist who is determined to get to the bottom of the story. At her own risk.
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The Adventures of Rosette
Title: The Adventures of Rosette
Released: April 2, 1983
Type: Movie
A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.
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Rosette sort le soir
Title: Rosette sort le soir
Character: Marie
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Cinématon XVIII
Title: Cinématon XVIII
Character: N°172 / N°173
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Chassé-croisé
Title: Chassé-croisé
Released: March 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.
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The Aviator's Wife
Title: The Aviator's Wife
Character: Anne
Released: March 4, 1981
Type: Movie
A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
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Catherine de Heilbronn
Title: Catherine de Heilbronn
Character: Brigitte
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
In the Middle Ages, the earl Wetter von Stahl is accused of having bewitched Catherine, the daughter of the blacksmith of Heilbronn. The earl tries to be exonerated by proceeding himself to the interrogation of the young woman, who apparently shows an "unnatural possession".
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°172 / N°173
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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Médiumnité
Title: Médiumnité
Released: October 30, 1978
Type: Movie
A young woman unsatisfied with her life and her marriage discovers gifts of medium.
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Perceval
Title: Perceval
Character: Pucelle / Dame / Fille de Garin
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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Life the Way It Is
Title: Life the Way It Is
Character: Florence
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Agnes leaves school and moves into a council house in Bagnolet with her friend Florence. She take a job as an office clerk, and becomes a staff representative after a colleague is dismissed for resisting the advances of her lecherous superior...
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Shreklife
Title: Shreklife
Character: Nadège
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Five childhood friends reunite for the first time after the death of their classmate Pedro, an unconditional Shrek fan. They are entrusted with an important mission: to honor the memory of the deceased by scattering his ashes at Shrekfest, a festival in honor of the green ogre and taking place in Wisconsin, USA.