Agnès Jaoui

Agnès Jaoui

Born: October 19, 1964
in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Agnès Jaoui (born 19 October 1964) is a French actress, screenwriter, film director and singer.

Jaoui has won six César Awards, three Lumières Awards, and a Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She has received numerous other awards and nominations, including a nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Jaoui was born in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, and is of Tunisian Jewish descent. She is the daughter of Hubert Jaoui and Gyza Jaoui, who are both writers. They moved to Paris when she was 8 years old. She started theatre when she was in high school at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. She entered the Cours Florent when she was 15. Patrice Chéreau, director of the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre where she began attending drama classes in 1984, gave her a role in the film Hôtel de France in 1987. That same year, she appeared in Harold Pinter's L'anniversaire with Jean-Pierre Bacri, who later became a faithful colleague and companion.

Jaoui and Bacri wrote the play Cuisine et dépendances, which was adapted onscreen in 1992 by Philippe Muyl. In 1993, director Alain Resnais asked them to write an adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's 8-part play Intimate Exchanges, which became the 2-part film Smoking/No Smoking. This ironic diptych about free will and destiny won the César Award for Best Writing in 1994. In 1996, they came to know greater success with Cédric Klapisch's adaptation of their play Family Resemblances (Un air de famille), which showed their ability to observe and depict everyday life, and to criticize the social norms through bitter and corrosive humor. Once again, they won the César Award for Best Writing in 1997 and the same year collaborated again with Resnais on Same Old Song (On connaît la chanson), which they wrote but also interpreted: together, they won their third César Award for Best Writing, and Jaoui her first César Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Jaoui directed her first feature film, The Taste of Others (Le Goût des autres, 2000, written with Bacri), which questions social-cultural identities. The film was a huge success in France and attracted 4 million spectators. It also won 4 César Awards in 2001 including Best Film and Best Writing, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2004, Jaoui's second film as a director, Look at Me (Comme une image), co-written with Bacri, was selected for the Cannes Festival and won the prize for Best Screenplay. She starred in the last Richard Dembo's film, La maison de Nina (2005) and then focused on music and released her album of Latin songs, Canta (2006). She returned to cinema in 2008 with Let's Talk About the Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie), with French humorist Jamel Debbouze in a different role from what he was used to.

In 2012, Jaoui directed her latest film to date, Under the Rainbow (Au bout du conte), also co-written with Bacri. She revisits several fairy tales such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood. It received acclaim from critics and audiences for originality and humor in the writing and dialogue. ...

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This Life of Mine
Title: This Life of Mine
Character: Barberie Bichette
Released: September 18, 2024
Type: Movie
Barbie, once an attractive, devoted mother and partner, faces newfound challenges as she turns 55, descending into darkness, violence, and absurdity while grappling with her identity, relationships, and life's complexities.
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Title: Becoming Karl Lagerfeld
Character: Gaby Aghion
Released: June 7, 2024
Type: TV
In 1972, Karl Lagerfeld is an unknown 38-year-old designer of ready-to-wear fashion, largely unknown to the public. His encounter with the young Jacques de Bascher, an ambitious and seductive dandy, changes everything. Karl is finally ready to go up against his friend, haute couture genius Yves Saint Laurent, and his formidable associate, Pierre Bergé. Glamour, ego battles, extravagant celebrations and destructive passion: Witness how Karl Lagerfeld became a legend.
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Immortelle Barbara - « …Du bout des lèvres » au Grand Rex à Paris, le 18/09/2023
Title: Immortelle Barbara - « …Du bout des lèvres » au Grand Rex à Paris, le 18/09/2023
Character: Self - Performer
Released: March 10, 2024
Type: Movie
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La vie de ma mère
Title: La vie de ma mère
Character: Judith
Released: March 6, 2024
Type: Movie
Pierre, a successful 33-year-old florist, has his life turned upside down by the sudden arrival of his mother Judith, whom he hasn’t seen for two years. Mercurial and extravagant, she suffers from bipolar disorder and has recently escaped from a clinic. Pierre has only one idea in mind: bring her back as quickly as possible so his life can get back on track. But nothing happens as he hoped for. Their unexpected reunion, as funny and explosive as it is heart-wrenching, will transform Pierre and Judith forever.
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A Nice Jewish Boy
Title: A Nice Jewish Boy
Character: Giselle
Released: January 24, 2024
Type: Movie
Bellisha is a good Jewish boy. He is a 27-year-old curly-haired, weak and nonchalant young man who struggles to become an adult. He still lives with his mother, Giselle, in a poor neighborhood. After the closing of the last synagogue, it is the turn of the last kosher grocery store to close its doors. That's it, they are the last Jewish family in the area. But much to Giselle's dismay, Bellisha doesn't particularly want to leave. He feels comfortable and positive, despite the tensions in the community and his mother's rapidly deteriorating health.
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Room 999
Title: Room 999
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”
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A Wonderful Girl
Title: A Wonderful Girl
Character: Claire Bloch
Released: July 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Mimi is 29 years old and still dreaming about a job she could get. She meets Paul, a sidelined lawyer, as she decides to seek employment. Together, they will defend Christophe, a conman who proclaims his innocence.
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Wow!
Title: Wow!
Character: Josépha
Released: June 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Catherine and Oracio are real estate advisors, and are visiting two properties in quick succession: a large bourgeois house "which can have a swimming pool and RER view", and a small modern apartment in the heart of Bougival's golden triangle.
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Life Lessons
Title: Life Lessons
Character: Noémie Capdenac
Released: May 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Noémie, an experienced screenwriter, meets up with Vincent, her first childhood love, at the film school where he is now the director. Through an extraordinary masterclass where intimacy rubs shoulders with the universal and reality flirts with fiction, Noémie will teach Vincent and his students that the art of writing a screenplay is the art of living passionately.
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Title: Beau geste
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: TV
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Title: Cherchez la femme !
Character: (voice)
Released: December 5, 2022
Type: TV
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Yuku and the Himalayan Flower
Title: Yuku and the Himalayan Flower
Character: La Renarde (voice)
Released: October 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Yuku is a young mouse who lives with her family in the cellar of a castle. Her grandmother passes on the family values by telling her timeless folk tales. Injured in a tussle with a cat, the old mouse is bedridden and she tells her children that she will have to leave them to follow the little blind mole into the Earth’s tunnels. In one of her grandmother’s storybooks, Yuku learns that the flower of the Himalayas can bring her eternal light. She leaves on a journey of discovery to find the flower.
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Becoming Marilyn
Title: Becoming Marilyn
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: October 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Marilyn wasn't born Marilyn, she became it. This unique portrait reveals her in her own words: a lucid and determined woman, shifting image of the diktats that still define feminity.
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Alain Resnais, l'audacieux
Title: Alain Resnais, l'audacieux
Character: Self - Cinéaste
Released: September 5, 2022
Type: Movie
A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of a discreet non-conformist, in perpetual search of renewal to fight against anxiety.
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Singing Jailbirds
Title: Singing Jailbirds
Character: Catherine
Released: April 13, 2022
Type: Movie
Following the success of his first feature "Django", Étienne Comar confronts with "Singing Jailbirds" the life in a prison for women with music and its capacity to unite people and a repertoire of international songs.
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The Companions
Title: The Companions
Character: Hélène
Released: February 23, 2022
Type: Movie
At 19, passionate about street art, Naëlle (Najaa Bensaid) is forced to follow a reintegration project with other young people, her last chance to avoid being separated from her loved ones. Touched by the young girl, Hélène (Agnès Jaoui), the site manager and her instructor, introduces her one day to the Maison des Compagnons de Nantes, a world of traditions that promotes craftsmanship excellence and transmission between generations. Alongside Paul (Pio Marmai), a companion stained glass artist who agrees to take her for training in his studio, Naëlle discovers a universe with codes very different from hers that could give new meaning despite her difficulties in life. Naëlle will carve a place for herself in the fascinating world of stained glass and will realize that the Companions' values are not just empty words.
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Bacri, comme un air de famille
Title: Bacri, comme un air de famille
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2021, this film tells the story of this quintessential Frenchman: a man turned towards others, an actor by accident, a moralist by vocation, who was left unaffected by flattery and false honors by success, and ready for all kinds of anger when it was necessary to speak out against injustice and stupidity. The film tells the story of how Jean-Pierre Bacri's life changed several times: from Algeria to France when he was eleven years old in 1962; from bank clerk to apprentice theater actor; from Pieds-noirs film star to screenwriter for Alain Resnais; and from Cannes playboy to Agnès Jaoui's mad lover, the most decisive encounter for his life as well as for his work
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Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
Title: Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: November 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history.
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Title: En thérapie
Character: Rebecca
Released: January 28, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: Foodie Love
Released: December 4, 2019
Type: TV
A pair of thirty-somethings meet through a food lover app and embark on a relationship despite past scars. Over the course of several dates, they discover where their tastes overlap and whether their passion for food, and shared distaste for foodie pretension, is enough to spark true love.
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Best Intentions
Title: Best Intentions
Character: Isabelle
Released: November 21, 2018
Type: Movie
A 50-year-old who is over-invested in humanitarian work is competing in the social center where she works. She will then embark her students in literacy class, with the help of a pretty foolish monitor, on the dangerous road of the code of the road.
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Place publique
Title: Place publique
Character: Hélène
Released: April 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Revolves around Castro, who was once a very famous TV host, but as he grows old, his popularity is dwindling.
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I Got Life!
Title: I Got Life!
Character: Aurore Tabort
Released: April 26, 2017
Type: Movie
Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.
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I'm All Yours
Title: I'm All Yours
Character: Simone Belkacem
Released: September 30, 2015
Type: Movie
Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get l* with the men she lays off!
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The Sweet Escape
Title: The Sweet Escape
Character: Laëtitia
Released: June 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.
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The Easy Way Out
Title: The Easy Way Out
Character: Ariel
Released: March 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.
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The Scent of Carrots
Title: The Scent of Carrots
Character: (voice)
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A rabbit and a squirrel, neighbours and good friends, both love food and good company. They nevertheless quarrel over their different tastes. The squirrel moves out during the night and is caught by a fox…
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Under the Rainbow
Title: Under the Rainbow
Character: Marianne
Released: March 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she's found the right one. But then again, when she meets Maxime, Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others? Of course Sandro has problems of his own : his father, Pierre, just bumped into Madam Irma at his father's funeral and this reminded him of the date of his own death which Madame Irma had predicted ages ago. Now Pierre is unable to make any plans, not with his new partner Eleonore, nor with Sandro. And Maxime has his own problems, and so does Eleonore, Marianne, Jacqueline and many others. But don't worry, in the end, they'll all live happily ever after.
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The Dandelions
Title: The Dandelions
Character: Colette Gladstein
Released: August 22, 2012
Type: Movie
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
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Sous un coin de ciel bleu
Title: Sous un coin de ciel bleu
Character: Princess (voice)
Released: October 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Animaton short by Arnaud Demuynck and Cecilia Marum.
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Let It Rain
Title: Let It Rain
Character: Agathe Villanova
Released: September 17, 2008
Type: Movie
Agathe Villanova is a self-centered, workaholic feminist politician who, upon reluctantly returning to her home in the south of France to sort out her mother's affairs, runs for a local election. Upon her arrival, Agathe grudgingly agrees to take part in a documentary being made by the blundering duo of Karim, an aspiring filmmaker, and self-professed "reporter" Michel, on the subject of "successful women." As Agathe's life hilariously unravels, the camera is there to capture it all.
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Nina's House
Title: Nina's House
Character: Nina
Released: October 12, 2005
Type: Movie
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
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Look at Me
Title: Look at Me
Character: Sylvia Millet
Released: November 18, 2004
Type: Movie
Talented 20-year-old Lolita dreams of a singing career. But her self-esteem is low due to her weight problem and her narcissistic father, Étienne, a literary star with scant interest in his daughter's life. Lolita finds little comfort in the attentions of her vocal coach, suspecting the woman is using her to meet her influential father. Étienne's second wife proves to be Lolita's only trustworthy ally in her private battle to find a sense of worth.
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The Role of Her Life
Title: The Role of Her Life
Character: Elisabeth Becker
Released: June 16, 2004
Type: Movie
A humble copy editor becomes a personal assistant to her favorite actress and eventually loses herself both in the actress' demands and her own ego.
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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Title: 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Character: Marie Collins Brown
Released: September 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.
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Title: Burger Quiz
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2001
Type: TV
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The Taste of Others
Title: The Taste of Others
Character: Manie
Released: March 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.
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Une femme d'extérieur
Title: Une femme d'extérieur
Character: Françoise
Released: January 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Françoise breaks up with Jacques after living with him for fifteen years. She's left alone with their three children, a lovely home, and her nursing job at a hospital. Françoise quickly refuses to assume responsibility for this new situation beyond her control. She starts going out, living by night… hanging out in new places, ready for chance encounters.
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On the Run
Title: On the Run
Character: Kirstin
Released: January 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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The Cousin
Title: The Cousin
Character: Claudine Delvaux
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Nounours is the nickname of a "cousin" an informer with a special arrangement with the police: he gets 10% of the drugs seized thanks to his help. When his personal contact, inspector Maurin, commits suicide, inspector Gérard Delvaux takes over. Meanwhile, judge Lambert is uncovering the illegal practices of the policemen. Her persistent investigations, which had cornered Maurin, are leading to Gérard, and also to Nounours as the source of heroin that led to recent cases of deadly overdoses. Nounours promises Gérard increasingly bigger catches which he is intent on realising before he is forced to reveal who Nounours is to judge Lambert.
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Same Old Song
Title: Same Old Song
Character: Camille Lalande
Released: November 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.
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Le Déménagement
Title: Le Déménagement
Character: Claire
Released: February 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Qui n'a pas connu le stress d'un déménagement ? Surtout quand on est un jeune écrivain comme Alain, sur le point de quitter une bonne maison d'édition pour écrire un sitcom pour la télévision, que sa femme est sur le point d'accoucher et de surcroît quand les déménageurs sont des Roumains qui travaillent au noir et qu'ils n'ont pas vraiment le sens de la ponctualité...
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Family Resemblances
Title: Family Resemblances
Character: Betty Ménard
Released: September 7, 1996
Type: Movie
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
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Kitchen with Apartment
Title: Kitchen with Apartment
Character: Charlotte
Released: April 6, 1993
Type: Movie
Jacques and Martine, an ordinary bourgeois couple, invite to dinner a friend whom they have not seen the last ten years. Since then he has become a media star and everything has to go just right at dinner.
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Canti
Title: Canti
Released: May 16, 1991
Type: Movie
In summer, Cecco, a withdrawn teenager, goes to his mother's house in a coastal town. His encounter with a gang of thugs marauding on the beaches will be dramatic.
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L'Amoureuse
Title: L'Amoureuse
Character: Agathe
Released: November 28, 1987
Type: Movie
A love story. But while the first is in love with the girl, the second boy has just met her and isn't ready to give her up. And the girl in love no longer knows which one to choose. The second is willing to dissappear from her life, to sacrifice himself ; if she accepts to marry him abroad in utmost secrecy...
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Hôtel de France
Title: Hôtel de France
Character: Mme Bouguereau
Released: May 20, 1987
Type: Movie
A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.
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Title: Il était une fois dix-neuf acteurs
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self (World Music Album of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Télématin
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1985
Type: TV
Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.
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The Hawk
Title: The Hawk
Character: Sandra
Released: September 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Detective Frank Zodiac is a cop traumatized by the death of his wife in a car accident that also left his daughter in a coma. This tragedy prevented him from being present to apprehend the dangerous gangster Gus Sabor, who was then able to escape from law enforcement. Three years later, Frank and Gus' paths cross again. Frank then sets out to pursue the criminal through Paris.
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Harmonie
Title: Harmonie
Character: Magda
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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A Primeira Música
Title: A Primeira Música
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A 25-year-old young man who lives in the middle of rice plantations divides his time between exhausting work in the fields and the rigorous study of classical music. Déia, his transverse flute teacher, encourages him to participate in an important music festival that revolves around the 150th anniversary of "Carmen", an opera by French composer Georges Bizet. The desire to leave the countryside and participate in the festival makes the young man have family conflicts.