
Birthday:
01-03-1916
Deathday:
02-26-2019 (103 years)
Birthplace:
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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The Young Girls Turn 25
Act like Self
event1993 star_border 7.1
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Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
Mag Bodard, un destin
Act like Self (voice)
event2005
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Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.
Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Act like Self
event2008 star_border 8
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Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".
The World of Jacques Demy
Act like Self
event1995 star_border 6.5
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Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane
Act like Self
event1970
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Writer / director Jacques Demy and actors Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais are interviewed on the set of 'Le peau d'ane'.
Behind the Screen
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1966
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Episode about the making of "The Young Girls of Rochefort". Part of a series of 'behind the scenes / making of' films produced in Belgium
Donkey Skin
Producer (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 7.2
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A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
Raphael or the Debauched One
Producer (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 6.1
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In 1830s France, a virtuous widow falls for a self-destructive debauchee obsessed with death. Initial resistance gives way to a desperate and cynical romance.
Appointment in Bray
Producer (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 4.2
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In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful stoic woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Producer (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 6.6
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Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Producer (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 7.4
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This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
The Bear and the Doll
Producer (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.1
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A quiet cellist living in the countryside has his life disrupted when he accidentally bumps into a wealthy, temperamental woman in a Rolls-Royce. Angered by his indifference to her charm, she attempts to seduce him, but he resists her attempts to invade his peaceful life.
Tout peut arriver
Producer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 5.9
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Back in France after a few years in the United States, a reporter goes in search of his wife.
The Creatures
Producer (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6.4
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A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book.
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Producer (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 5.1
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Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Producer (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 6.1
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Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...
Trocadero Lemon Blue
Producer (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 5.8
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Ten years old Phil who is living with his mother and likes skateboarding with his friends has fallen in love with a girl of his age.
Naked Childhood
Producer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 7.1
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Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.
The House of the Bories
Production Supervisor (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.7
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Julien, a renowned geologist, lives with his wife Isabelle and their two children in a country house. But his sullen, uncompromising attitude leaves tensions high. The arrival of Carl-Stephane, a young German student, brings a breath of fresh air and lightness to the household.
Man with the Transplanted Brain
Producer (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 6
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Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. One day, he finds himself in the presence of a young car accident victim for whom the only hope of survival would be a brain transplant. Marcilly, who has a heart condition and is terminally ill, decides to become the "donor". The operation is a success. But who is actually the patient discharged from the hospital: a young fellow with the brain of a young man or an old man in the body of a young one?
Happiness
Producer (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 7.5
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A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.
The Fighting Cock
Producer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 2.5
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A sleeping car employee seeking a well-deserved rest is prevented from doing so by the crowing of his neighbor's rooster. Just as he's about to settle the score, he's presented with a gift: a rubber band around the annoying bird's beak temporarily puts an end to its vocalizations. But the animal can't be left alone, and Pierre has to take it with him on his nocturnal journeys: you can imagine the disturbance it can cause when, after being thrown out of a wagon window, it lands in the next van full of pheasants. The whole little world spills out onto the train, and the conductor is not at all pleased! Pierre manages to get a young passenger to assume ownership of the rooster, but not for long. Every time Pierre tries to get rid of it, it somehow comes back to him.
Au Hasard Balthazar
Producer (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 7.6
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The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Producer (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 6
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Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
One Night... a Train
Producer (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 6.1
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The Belgian linguistics professor Matthias is going through a difficult period in relations with his girlfriend Anne. She is French, he is Belgian, and, oddly enough for an enlightened Europe and a doubly enlightened university environment, this small difference is a shadow on the couple’s personal life. One day, during a train ride, Anne disappears and Mathias goes looking for her in an unknown city.
A Gentle Woman
Producer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 6.8
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When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
Paul
Producer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 5.6
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Paul leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with a pilgrim, leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by begging for food in uncomfortable robes. The religious fanatics draw the ire of local peasants when they are arrested for stealing eggs. Marianne is one of the followers, and she and Paul go to a remote island to live off seaweed and vegetation, but a development company moves in to wreck the paradise. Paul is brokenhearted when Mariane goes off with one of the greedy developers in this symbolic film that decries the allure of the material world.
A Question of Rape
Producer (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 3.5
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A mysterious violent man breaks into a rich couples apartment and holding his wife hostage. The threatening and dangerous situation devolve into an erotic game.
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 7.7
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Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close...
Kamouraska
Producer (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 6.1
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A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
La Chanson du maçon
Producer (1 ep.)
event2002
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Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason.
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