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Justine Triet is a graduate from the Paris National School of Fine Arts. Since then, she has directed a couple of films dealing with the place of the individual within a group: Sur place (2007) was shot right in the middle of the 2006 student protest; Solférino (2009) was filmed during the 2007 French presidential election; in her next effort, Two Ships (2012), Justine Triet gave a startling account of life in a São Paulo shantytown and garnered many awards in the festival circuit. Her first feature, Age of Panic (2013) is a skillful mix of a documentary (five years after Solférino (2009), she records the second ballot of the French elections for President live in the streets of Paris) and fiction (the crisis experienced on that very day by a divorced couple). Age of Panic (2013) has been acclaimed by most critics as one of the best works of the latest new wave of French directors.- Actor
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David Belle is an international actor, but also the founder of Parkour. Belle was introduced to his acting career in a meeting with Hubert Koundé (La Haine) and then in the play Pygmalion. He began his acting career guest-starring in the television show Louis Page (1997). Belle gained prominence starring in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale (2002), and with astonishing Parkour performances in action movies such as Les Rivières Pourpres 2 (2004) with Jean Reno. David was then contacted by Luc Besson to co-star as lead actor in the action movie District 13 (2004). He gained international fame for his portrayal of Leïto, and would reprise the role in the sequel District 13: Ultimatum (2009). He also starred in films such as Babylon A.D. and The Family, and worked as a stunt/Parkour coordinator/choreographer in blockbusters such as Transporter 2, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Colombiana.
Seen as a "Living Legend" in China, David entered the Asian Movie market in 2016 and since then stared in several blockbusters.
Belle also stared in two web series, the noticeable Brutal: Taste of Violence, and À Jamais, awarded for is performances as "Best Actor" at the SeriesLand WebFest 2018 and Rio Webfest 2018.
Besides acting, Belle is the founder of Parkour, and was former President of the Parkour Commission with FIG, the International Federation of Gymnastics.- Actress
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Karin Viard was born on 24 January 1966 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Polisse (2011), The Bélier Family (2014) and Paris (2008).- Caroline Ducey was born on December in Sainte-Adresse, Seine-Maritime, France. She is an actress, known for Romance (1999) by Catherine Breillat, Trop de bonheur (1994) by Cédric Kahn, Carrément à l'ouest ( 2001) by Jacques Doillon, La Chambre Obscure by Marie-Christine Questerbert, Doo Wop by David Lanzmann, Bangkok Fighter by Jean-Marc Minéo, Balo a tre passi by Salvatore Mereu, Prendimi l'Anima by Roberto Faenza, La grenouille et Dieu (2014) and a lot of shorts, series. She is the only person at that day authorized by Mrs Anna Strasberg to perform on a stage the written of Mrs Marilyn Monroe, since 2015, from the book "Fragments : poèmes, écrits intimes, lettres" published by Le Seuil and Stanley Buchthal. She performed in Paris in 2015-2016, and Avignon Festival in 2017 and 2019. Her family name is Trousselard. She's been living with the french director David Lanzmann for 20 years and have a daughter together. She is the sister of Marion Trousselard.
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Although François Truffaut has written that the New Wave began "thanks to Rivette," the films of this masterful French director are not well known. Rivette, like his "Cahiers du Cinéma" colleagues Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Éric Rohmer, did graduate to filmmaking but, like Rohmer, was something of a late bloomer as a director. He made two shorts (At the Four Corners (1949) and The Quadrille (1950), starring Jean-Luc Godard); in the mid-1950s he served as an assistant to Jean Renoir and Jacques Becker; and in 1958 he was, along with Chabrol, the first of the five to begin production on a feature-length film. Without the financial benefit of a producer, Rivette took to the streets with his friends, a 16mm camera, and film stock purchased on borrowed money. It was only, however, after the commercial success of Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959), Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) and Godard's Breathless (1960) that the resulting film, the elusive, intellectual, and somewhat lengthy (135 minutes) Paris Belongs to Us (1961), saw its release in 1960. In retrospect, Rivette's debut sketched out the path which all his subsequent films would follow; PARIS NOUS APPARTIENT was a monumental undertaking for the critic-turned-director, with some 30 actors (including Chabrol, Godard and Jacques Demy), almost as many locations, and an impenetrably labyrinthine narrative. His next film, the considerably more commercial The Nun (1966), was an adaptation of the Diderot novel which Rivette had staged in 1963. The least characteristic of all his features, it was also his first and only commercial success, becoming a succèss de scandal when the government blocked its release for a year. Rivette's true talents first made themselves visible during the fruitful period, 1968-74. During this time he directed the 4-hour Mad Love (1969), the now legendary 13-hour Out 1 (1971) (made for French TV in 1970 but never broadcast; edited to a 4-hour feature and retitled Out 1: Spectre (1972)), and the 3-hour Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), his most entertaining and widely seen picture. In these three films, Rivette began to construct what has come to be called his "House of Fiction"--an enigmatic filmmaking style influenced by the work of Louis Feuillade and involving improvisation, ellipsis and considerable narrative experimentation. Unfortunately, Rivette seems to have no place in contemporary cinema. On the one hand, his work is considered too inaccessible for theatrical distribution; on the other, although his revolutionary theories have influenced figures such as Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet and Chantal Akerman, he is deemed too commercial to be accepted by the underground cinema; he still employs a narrative and uses "name" actors such as Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Anna Karina and Maria Schneider. Since CÉLINE AND JULIE, Rivette's career has been as mysterious as one of his plots. In 1976 he received an offer to make a series of four films, "Les Filles du Feu." Duelle (1976), the first entry, received such negative response that the second, Noroît (1976)--which some critics call his greatest picture--was held from release. The final two installments (one of which was due to star Leslie Caron and Albert Finney) were never filmed. The 1980s proved no kinder. He made five films, but only one of them, Love on the Ground (1984), opened in the US (it received disastrous reviews). Although he continues to be an innovative and challenging artist, Rivette has failed to find the type of audience that has contributed to the commercial success of his New Wave compatriots.- Actor
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At the age of three, André Zacharie Raimbourg and his family moved to a town in the region of Normandy called Bourville. He finished school at the age of 15 and began to work as a baker. He was already playing harmonica, mandoline and cornet when he engaged himself in a village band. In the beginning of 1940 while in the army making music-hall show for the troops, he changed his name into Andrel like his idol Fernandel from whom he was singing the songs. He began to write his own songs, making a name by himself, and so in 1942 took a new name, further from "Fernandel": Bourvil(le). He was recognized as a stand-up comic, dressed as a farmer grown too fast for the shirt he wears, hair coming down on his forehead, a simple minded but crafty naive. At the end of the war the radio extended his fame. His first parts on the screen were based only on this character. It's only in 1956 with The Crossing of Paris (1956) of Claude Autant-Lara that he really began to give his real potential as an actor on the screen. His greatest popular successes will come under the direction of Gérard Oury.- Actor
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Franck Dubosc was born on 7 November 1963 in Le Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Rolling to You (2018), Camping (2006) and Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008). He has been married to Danièle since 19 June 2009. They have one child.- Actor
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Grégory Gadebois was born on 24 July 1976 in Gruchet-le-Valasse, Seine-Maritime, France. He is an actor, known for Angel & Tony (2010), Flowers for Algernon (2014) and One of a Kind (2013).- Director
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Eva Husson was born in 1977 in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France. She is a director and writer, known for Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story (2015), Those for Whom It's Always Complicated (2013) and Girls of the Sun (2018).- Actor
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Etienne Chicot was born on 5 May 1949 in Fécamp, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France. He was an actor and composer, known for The Da Vinci Code (2006), Transsiberian (2008) and L'orchestre rouge (1989). He died on 7 August 2018 in Paris, France.- Philippe Torreton was born on 13 October 1965 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. He is an actor and writer, known for District 13: Ultimatum (2009), Captain Conan (1996) and It All Starts Today (1999). He has been married to Elsa Boublil since June 2008. They have one child. He was previously married to Anne-Marie Etienne.
- Jean Bouise was born on 3 June 1929 in Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France. He was an actor, known for The Big Blue (1988), La Femme Nikita (1990) and Z (1969). He was married to Isabelle Sadoyan. He died on 6 July 1989 in Lyon, Rhône, France.
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Arnaud Ducret was born on 6 December 1978 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Fortunes (2011), Fortunes (2008) and The Visitor from the Future (2022).- Suzanne Le Bret was born on 28 February 1889 in Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France. She was an actress, known for Les vampires (1915), Léonce à la campagne (1913) and Léonce et les écrevisses (1913). She died on 7 November 1928 in Paris XIX, Paris, France.
- Was gravely wounded in 1985 in a car accident, was in a coma for 40 days and was left handicapped. The car was driven by Sacha Distel, a french singer who was just slightly hurt and who received a suspended sentence of one year following the accident. Chantal Nobel retired from public life following the accident.
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Pierre Creton was born in 1966 in Seine-Maritime, France. He is a director and writer, known for A Prince (2023), House of Love (2021) and Va, Toto! (2017).- Writer
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Alexis Nolent was born in 1967 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. Alexis is a writer and director, known for The Killer (2023), Bullet to the Head (2012) and XIII (2003).- Jacqueline Pierreux was born on 15 January 1923 in Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France. She was an actress, known for Le dindon (1951), Top of the Form (1953) and Cet homme est dangereux (1953). She was married to Pierre Léaud. She died on 10 March 2005 in Salins, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France.
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Annie Ernaux, is a French author and professor of literature. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology. Annie Ernaux started her literary career in 1974 with "Les Armoires vides" (Cleaned Out), an autobiographical novel. Very early in her career, she turned away from fiction to focus on autobiography. "A Woman's Story, A Man's Place", and "Simple Passion" were recognized as The New York Times Notable Books, and "A Woman's Story" was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2019 for her book "The Years". A couple of her novels have been filmed and she directed "Les années Super-8" (2022) - Home videos shot by Ernaux and her family from 1972 to 1981 and feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years. She was married to Philippe Ernaux 1964-1985. They have two children, David and Eric.- Cathia Caro was born on 17 December 1943 in Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie], France. She is an actress, known for Il trionfo di Maciste (1961), Isabelle a peur des hommes (1957) and Violent Summer (1959).
- François Hollande was born on 12 August 1954 in Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime, Normandy], France. He is an actor, known for Silex & The City - The Movie (2024), Au nom de la grèce and Trump Takes on the World (2021). He has been married to Julie Gayet since 4 June 2022.
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Roger Roger was born on 5 August 1911 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. He was a composer and actor, known for SLC Punk! (1998), The Stepford Wives (2004) and Blood Father (2016). He died on 12 June 1995 in Deauville, Calvados, France.- Director
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André Berthomieu was born on 16 February 1903 in Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France. He was a director and writer, known for Belle mentalité (1953), Préméditation (1960) and Pas si bête (1946). He died on 10 April 1960 in Vineuil-Saint-Firmin, Oise, France.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Patrick DeMarchelier was born on 21 August 1943 in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France. He was an actor, known for Sex and the City (2008), The Believers (1987) and París: Magic Jeans (2015). He was married to Mia Skoog. He died on 31 March 2022 in France.- Actor
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Anyone living in France has necessarily seen or heard Bernard Dhéran, in a theater, in a movie house, on a DVD or on a TV screen. Didn't he interpret dozens and dozens of plays - plays he sometimes directed himself? Wasn't he in 112 films, TV movies or series? Didn't he dub scores of famous actors such as David Niven, Sean Connery, Christopher Plummer, Christopher Lee or IanMcKellen? And yet if you ask anyone in France whether they know the name of Bernard Dhéran you are very likely to get a negative answer. And yet his fine figure, his great presence, his male assertive voice, his elegance (including when he plays the villain of the piece) are unmistakable. Born Bernard Poulain in Dieppe in 1926, he was raised in Rouen and was fourteen when the Nazis invaded France. When time came for him to choose a career he did not know what to do exactly but he took drama classes on a fancy. Little by little passion was aroused and it would never relinquish its grip on Bernard, now Dhéran - to his (and our) delight. He debuted in "Hamlet" in 1946 and was accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris the following year where he won a second prize. First hired by the Renaud-Barrault company, he belonged to the Comédie Française for nearly thirty years. He acted in plays by Molière, Corneille, Mirbeau, Montherlant, Camus, Billetdoux, Poiret, among many many others. He was acclaimed recently in Laurent Baffie's hilarious play "Toc Toc". Solicited by the cinema industry, Bernard Dhéran did not say no but it wasn't long before disappointment set in. Three roles in movies by his master Sacha Guitry, Gina Lollobrigida's fiancé (no less!) in René Clair's "Les Belles de Nuit" (1952) and a good part in a good solidarity movie "Si tous les gars du monde" (1955) by Christian-Jaque but most of the (numerous) films he made during the 1950s were standard comedies or crime stories in which he was invariably the elegant cynical gangster, crook or other type of bad man. Sick and tired, Dhéran went on working for the theater and favored TV where he got much more rewarding parts. He could indeed switch from Buckingham to Richelieu to Beaumarchais, to Voltaire to Talleyrand! Whereas only two or three films he made for the cinema stand out: "La belle Américaine (1962), Le silencieux" (1972), "Ridicule" (1995). It was a pleasure to find him back in 2007 in one of Claude Berri's last films "Ensemble c'est tout", in which he was the picturesque father of colorful Laurent Stocker. Be that as it may, Bernard Dhéran is still active and passionate sixty-three years after he first appeared on a stage. An everyday dedication to his art that commands respect.