Mathieu Demy

Mathieu Demy

Born: October 15, 1972
in Paris, France
Mathieu Demy is a French filmmaker and actor. He is the son of renowned filmmakers Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda. Demy has directed several acclaimed films, including "Americano" (2011), "Lola Pater" (2017), and "Three Songs for Benazir" (2021).

Demy began his career as an actor, appearing in several films directed by his parents. He made his directorial debut in 2000 with the short film "The Girl from the Train." His first feature film, "Americano," was a critically acclaimed drama about a young French woman who travels to Los Angeles to find her estranged father.

Demy's films are often characterized by their personal and intimate style. He frequently explores themes of family, relationships, and loss. His films have been praised for their emotional honesty and visual beauty.

In addition to his work as a director, Demy has also written several screenplays and acted in several films. He is a regular collaborator with his wife, the actress Chiara Mastroianni.

Demy is a rising star in French cinema. His films have been shown at major film festivals around the world, and he has won several awards for his work. He is a talented filmmaker with a unique vision, and he is sure to continue to make acclaimed films for many years to come.

Demy is a significant figure in contemporary French cinema. His films are personal, intimate, and visually beautiful. He is a talented filmmaker with a unique vision, and he is sure to continue to make acclaimed films for many years to come.

IMDb mini bio by: yusufpiskin

Movies for Mathieu Demy...

The Barbarians
Title: The Barbarians
Released: September 18, 2024
Type: Movie
The municipality of a small Breton village has decided to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. To their surprise, they receive Fayad family – coming from Syria. They thwart all the clichés that the French expected: they are friendly, refined, educated… So much so that, in this small, humming village, it is no longer clear which side the barbarians are on…
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Block Pass
Title: Block Pass
Released: May 20, 2024
Type: Movie
Willy spends his time with Jojo, his best friend, at La Pampa, the motocross course where Jojo trains for the French championship. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo's secret. It's time to leave childhood behind.
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All to Play For
Title: All to Play For
Character: Alain Paugam
Released: November 21, 2023
Type: Movie
Sylvie lives with her two children whom she’s raising on her own. One evening, there’s an accident, and her youngest son is removed from her care. Sylvie must subsequently fight to get her son back and to keep herself afloat.
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Club Zero
Title: Club Zero
Character: Elsa's Father
Released: September 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class and forms a strong bond with five students that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
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Viva Varda!
Title: Viva Varda!
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2023
Type: Movie
A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Bonheur, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, she created a quirky, open to the world, sensitive to the disenfranchised, often silly body of work. Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which she refused to constrict to pure fiction or long-form films.
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Title: Oussekine
Released: May 11, 2022
Type: TV
An examination of the terrible true events of December 5, 1986, that led to the death of a young student, Malik Oussekine. Centred on his family’s fight for justice, the series explores the enormous impact this high-profile case had on French society.
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Title: On the Verge
Character: Martin
Released: September 6, 2021
Type: TV
Four women, a chef, a single mom, an heiress, and a job seeker dig into love and work, with a generous side of midlife crises, in pre-pandemic LA.
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Les Dominos
Title: Les Dominos
Character: Antoine
Released: November 1, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Mythomaniac
Character: Patrick
Released: September 23, 2019
Type: TV
Burned out and taken for granted, a working mom suspects her partner is cheating, so to win back his attentions, she feigns a medical diagnosis.
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My Little One
Title: My Little One
Character: Bernardo
Released: February 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Once best friends, Alex and Bernardo are called to the Arizona desert by Jade, a woman they both loved but haven't seen in 10 years.
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Seances
Title: Seances
Released: April 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are conjured by code. Each will exist only in the moment—no pausing, scrubbing, or sharing—offering the audience one chance to see the generated film. This project, co-created by the ever imaginative Guy Maddin, is a visual discourse on the impact of loss within film. All the sequences pay homage to lost silent films from the early day of cinema. Seances is nostalgic but it is also frequently hilarious. Part of the joy and sadness of Seances is that many possible narratives are created but they can be only viewed once before they disappear forever.
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Being Flat
Title: Being Flat
Released: October 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Puppets and electro take center stage as director Quentin Dupieux, AKA Mr. Oizo, resurrects his Flat Eric character for this awkward comedy.
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Max & Lenny
Title: Max & Lenny
Character: The Teacher
Released: February 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
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The Conquerors
Title: The Conquerors
Character: Noé
Released: September 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Half-brothers Galaad and Noé first meet at their father's funeral. They have little in common, apart from an equal share of personal failures. Convinced that the evil eye has been dogging them ever since their father stole a sacred relic, Galaad convinces Noé to act. Suddenly adventurers, the two men set out in search of the stolen object, and in search of the chance that has shunned them until now.
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Title: Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Character: Himself
Released: December 19, 2011
Type: TV
Agnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St. Petersburg, Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City to Los Angeles—meeting with friends, artists, and fellow filmmakers.
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Americano
Title: Americano
Character: Martin
Released: November 30, 2011
Type: Movie
A real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a found photograph sends him on an impromptu journey to Mexico to find a woman named Lola.
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The Art of Seduction
Title: The Art of Seduction
Character: Jean-François
Released: July 27, 2011
Type: Movie
Jean-François is a psychoanalyst in love with one of his patients. When she decides to stop therapy, Jean-François at last feels free to seduce the woman. Paralyzed when in front of his object of love, Jean-François accumulates blunders of every kind. He hence turns to Julien, one his patients who is in therapy to overcome his compulsive-obsessive flirting disorder. It's a totally absurd initiative on Jean-François's part. But, even so...
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Tomboy
Title: Tomboy
Character: Father
Released: April 20, 2011
Type: Movie
A French family moves to a new neighborhood with during the summer holidays. The story follows a 10-year-old gender non-conforming child, Laure, who experiments with their gender presentation, adopting the name Mikäel.
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Les Insomniaques
Title: Les Insomniaques
Character: Martial
Released: March 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Two insomniacs go into partnership to start a club bringing together people who suffer from the same trouble and decide together to become vigilantes and more precisely vindicators serving causes they are interested in. But relations between the various members will go on deteriorating.
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Colère
Title: Colère
Character: Mickey
Released: July 16, 2010
Type: Movie
The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Many dead and wounded. Two citizens investigate the drama and discover that its origin could be criminal.
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Student Services
Title: Student Services
Character: Benjamin
Released: January 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Nineteen-year-old Laura is stressed by her first year at college when money worries distract her from her studies and so, desperate for cash, she answers an online advertisement for intimate companionship that leads her down a dangerous path.
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The Girl on the Train
Title: The Girl on the Train
Character: Alex, le fils de Samuel
Released: March 18, 2009
Type: Movie
The Girl on the Train is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe. When Franck is arrested, he turns on Jeanne for her naivety; she's stung and seeks attention by making up a story of an attack on a train. Is there any way out for her?
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The Beaches of Agnès
Title: The Beaches of Agnès
Character: Self
Released: December 17, 2008
Type: Movie
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
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The Great Alibi
Title: The Great Alibi
Character: Philippe Léger
Released: April 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...
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Le temps d'un regard
Title: Le temps d'un regard
Character: Antoine
Released: November 28, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Nos enfants chéris
Character: Martin
Released: September 10, 2007
Type: TV
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Fissures
Title: Fissures
Character: Julien
Released: June 6, 2007
Type: Movie
Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.
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A Few Days in September
Title: A Few Days in September
Character: Le jeune banquier
Released: September 6, 2006
Type: Movie
1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to work with him, and David, his adoptive son, will help him and lead the girl to her father. Chased by William Pound, a strangely poetic psycho, they will defy the dangers of international espionage from Paris to Venice and finally get to Elliot on 11 September 2001.
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If You Love Me, Follow Me
Title: If You Love Me, Follow Me
Character: Max
Released: July 5, 2006
Type: Movie
Thirty-five-year-old Max has a successful career and a beautiful wife, but one day he realises that his life isn’t exactly as he’d planned. He decides to leave it all behind to live out his teenage dream of being in a rock band. But fulfilling his dream at this point in his life is harder than he had imagined.
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Lisa et le pilote d'avion
Title: Lisa et le pilote d'avion
Character: Paul
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Lisa and Corinne are personal assistants to people with disabilities. Lisa is happily married and have two kids. Corinne is in and out of love affairs. One day Lisa meet an airline pilot who charms her and she can't say no to.
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The Art of Breaking Up
Title: The Art of Breaking Up
Character: Firmin
Released: April 27, 2005
Type: Movie
Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. He is a spoiled but penniless child who wants it all while she is a celebrated figure of la vie parisienne who knows what she wants and what she is worth. Edouard is marrying a young, pretty and rich heiress. He comes to confess this to Lucette and to make their parting official, but he doesn’t want to leave her. He struggles with all his might to hide his betrayal but her opportunities to learn of it are countless and unpredictable.
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Le Silence
Title: Le Silence
Character: Olivier
Released: December 29, 2004
Type: Movie
A man on holiday in Corsica witnesses the robbery and the killing of a gas station / grocery owner by somebody he knew. He flees the place without saying anything to anyone about what happened, and then feels deeply guilty.
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Mister V.
Title: Mister V.
Character: Carlo Locatello
Released: November 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Lucas is a young scientist obsessed with the analysis of movement: that of the horses he studies in his laboratory, that of the clappers he practices as an amateur. His professional and sentimental life seems like a stalemate when his brother Luigi, a passionate horse breeder and little crook,who is accidentally killed by a stallion, Mister V. He knows that the animal is the subject of an insurance scam and must be shot against the will of his brother, who had seen in him a future champion. He then decides to take care of the farm and his sister-in-law, for whom he has always had an attraction. Tugged between his feelings, Luigi's memory and the pressures of the former crook partner, he will draw strength and power from the murderous stallion whose savagery fascinates him.
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Nos enfants chéris
Title: Nos enfants chéris
Character: Martin
Released: July 2, 2003
Type: Movie
30 ans, l'âge des responsabilités... Martin s'apprête à partir en vacances avec sa femme Ariane et sa fille Cerise, 4 mois... C'est alors qu'il croise Constance, son ex, son amour de jeunesse, elle-même flanquée de deux marmots. C'est décidé : on passera quelques jours ensemble, au soleil, dans la maison familiale. Comme au bon vieux temps.
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Pronobis
Title: Pronobis
Character: A guest (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Philippe lives in his deceased parents' large flat. He hides a dark secret there, wich a girlfriend will soon discover...
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Aram
Title: Aram
Character: Lévon
Released: November 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Aram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret service surveillance. Held responsible and banished by his faher for his brother's injuries in a terrorist ttack, he's also come to seek revenge for the drama that has marked his family and his life.
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Le nouveau Jean-Claude
Title: Le nouveau Jean-Claude
Character: Jean-Claude
Released: June 26, 2002
Type: Movie
A young man, to whom life has never smiled, decides to change his destiny and begins by conquering the pretty woman with whom he fell in love.
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Les acteurs anonymes
Title: Les acteurs anonymes
Character: Mathieu
Released: October 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Nine comedians meet at the Acteurs Anonymes, a rehab center for acting, lost in the heart of Aveyron.
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God Is Great and I'm Not
Title: God Is Great and I'm Not
Character: Bertrand
Released: September 26, 2001
Type: Movie
Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
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The Dark Room
Title: The Dark Room
Character: Thomas
Released: November 29, 2000
Type: Movie
In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.
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Quand on sera grand
Title: Quand on sera grand
Released: September 27, 2000
Type: Movie
At thirty, Simon is juggling with life and it's problems. He is torn between his job as a journalist at "Tobacco Monthly", his girlfreind Christine with whom he can't seem to have a child and his friends Fabrice, Léa and Roché. On the family side, he should be sorting things out with his psychiatrist father but he mainly takes care of his Granma who is loosing her mind and making life impossible for everyone around her. When he meets Claire, a pregnant neighbour neglected by her husband, his life takes an unexpected turn.
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Love Torn in Dreams
Title: Love Torn in Dreams
Character: Paul / loup (voice)
Released: August 28, 2000
Type: Movie
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
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Banqueroute
Title: Banqueroute
Released: July 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Nicolas Lanson, a young stockbroker, lives a fast life of money and luxury until the day his high-risk initiatives cause the fall of the bank. He flees with a price on his head. On the run, Nicolas meets Charlotte, pregnant for a man who doesn't want her. Although Nicolas isn't her type, Charlotte seduces him once she discovers his identity. Little does Nicolas know, Charlotte is not leading them to see her brother, but an older lover who just happens to be a cop.
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The Sandmen
Title: The Sandmen
Character: Antoine
Released: July 4, 2000
Type: Movie
Alain runs Le Detour, a small cafe in Paris where Antoine works. Antoine is reunited with his sister Marie when she's released from prison; they are very close, perhaps abnormally so, but she's not aware that Antoine has fallen into cahoots with Stephane, who works as a waiter at another cafe. Damien, a local businessman, is pressuring Alain to expand Le Detour, and cut his nephew Xavier in for a percentage as a manager. While Alain waffles on Damien's proposal, Xavier offers Antoine a chance to make some money under the table by delivering some drugs to a cadre of dealers. Antoine makes the drop and picks up the payment, but runs off with the money rather than bringing it back to Xavier, which proves to have tragic consequences for Antoine and his friends.
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Farewell, Home Sweet Home
Title: Farewell, Home Sweet Home
Released: December 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from a helicopter and has an affair with her business partner. His cheerful, alcoholic father, on the other hand, is reduced to a prisoner in his room with his devoted dog and electric train set. Unbeknownst to his parents, Nicholas works as a window cleaner and dish washer in a Parisian cafe. He is also in love with the daughter of another cafe's owner, who, however, has an abusive boyfriend. One night, Nicholas sneaks a few drunken drifters into his family wine cellar and his father unexpectedly takes a liking to the stranger.
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Mes amis
Title: Mes amis
Character: Benoît
Released: June 2, 1999
Type: Movie
In the morning, two friends, a producer and an actor, discover the corpse of a young woman who accompanied them the previous night. The shooting of the day is not going to go as planned at all.
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The New Yorker
Title: The New Yorker
Released: December 9, 1998
Type: Movie
Skirt-chasing Gaul Alfred and comely American tourist Alice meet by chance and strike up a rapport during her whirlwind vacation in the City of Lights. Alas, Alice is soon jetting back over the Atlantic, which leaves the smitten Alfred hopelessly bereft, heartbroken, and determined to win her back. In a fit of desperation, he books a flight and follows in hot pursuit, settling in the Big Apple; his decision to set foot on a plane, however, represents the first of many disasters to befall him. In the course of Alfred's trip, the airline loses his luggage, and when he finally reaches Alice's doorstep, she isn't dazzled to see him but instead rather disgusted - she doesn't hesitate to tell him to beat it. Never one to relent, the ever-persistent Alfred grows convinced that she will eventually buckle, and decides to settle in Manhattan until that moment arrives and takes a job as a dog-sitter for the seedy businessman Farrakhan.
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My Friend Rachid
Title: My Friend Rachid
Character: Eric adulte
Released: November 5, 1998
Type: Movie
A nine-year-old boy is obsessed with the sizable penis of his older friend.
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Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
Title: Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
Character: Olivier
Released: April 22, 1998
Type: Movie
Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has finally found it with Olivier. However, Olivier reveals he has AIDS and disappears from her life after her profession of love and confession of infidelity.
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Arlette
Title: Arlette
Character: Julien
Released: April 16, 1997
Type: Movie
An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has been found; she's a truckstop waitress in France. The mobsters' proposition: romance the broad, and get hitched. Or else. Then the crooks can bump her off and keep the casino for themselves...
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The World of Jacques Demy
Title: The World of Jacques Demy
Character: Self
Released: September 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
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L'Affaire Dreyfus
Title: L'Affaire Dreyfus
Character: Marcel Proust
Released: May 18, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For lack of evidence, the War Ministry creates a damning document Dreyfus overwhelming. Judged and sentenced, Dreyfus is deported to Devil's Island. In 1896, the Army flushed out the real culprit. The truth broke out in 1898 thanks to the mobilization of intellectuals shaken by Zola's "J'accuse!"
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One Hundred and One Nights
Title: One Hundred and One Nights
Character: Camille
Released: January 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
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Hillbilly Chainsaw Massacre
Title: Hillbilly Chainsaw Massacre
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Under the Stars
Title: Under the Stars
Character: Thomas
Released: April 13, 1994
Type: Movie
The first emotions in love with a young man of seventeen: Thomas who understands that his life belongs to him at last. Four young women contribute to his sentimental education.
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Turning Table
Title: Turning Table
Character: The Little Clown
Released: December 21, 1988
Type: Movie
On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens a selection of his favorite shorts
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Three Seats for the 26th
Title: Three Seats for the 26th
Character: Derderian
Released: November 23, 1988
Type: Movie
In a charming mixture of fantasy and reality, this film recalls the great musicals of Hollywood's Golden Age. Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical. Once there, he searches for the barmaid he once loved and also encounters young hopeful Marion, giving her the chance of a lifetime
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Kung-Fu Master!
Title: Kung-Fu Master!
Character: Julien
Released: March 9, 1988
Type: Movie
A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?
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Jane B. for Agnès V.
Title: Jane B. for Agnès V.
Character: A's Son
Released: March 2, 1988
Type: Movie
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
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Documenteur
Title: Documenteur
Character: Martin Cooper
Released: October 2, 1981
Type: Movie
After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son.
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Mur Murs
Title: Mur Murs
Character: Self
Released: September 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos.
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Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
Title: Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1977
Type: Movie
A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film.
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Title: One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Character: Zorro
Released: March 9, 1977
Type: Movie
In this story of friendship and reproductive rights, 14 years in the relationship between two very dissimilar women are chronicled. Pauline is a middle-class city girl, at odds with her very conventional family. Suzanne is several years older, a country girl with two illegitimate children and another (whom she cannot support) on the way. Pauline loans Suzanne money for an abortion. At this point, the two separate and communicate mainly through postcards. Some years later, they meet at an abortion rally, and they have many adventures and stories to share with one another.
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Title: 37 secondes
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Près des falaises, la plage
Title: Près des falaises, la plage
Character: Eric
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie