Portugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the Lisboa, an unaffiliated evening paper. Read More »
Tag Archives: Daniel Auteuil
The Eighth Day AKA Le huitième jour (1996) Jaco Van Dormael, Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou
Georges has Down’s syndrome, living at a mental-institution. Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. Read More »
The Well-Digger’s Daughter AKA La fille du puisatier (2011) Daniel Auteuil, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Provence, the days before World War I. Rustic digger Pascal Amoretti, a widower Read More »
Le confessioni AKA The Confessions (2016) Roberto Andò, Toni Servillo, Daniel Auteuil, Pierfrancesco Favino
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. Read More »
The Escort (1999) Michel Blanc, Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker
Tom is a male escort boy for ladies, a gigolo. His friend Pierre doesn’t find this out until later Read More »
My Best Friend (2006) Patrice Leconte, Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet
François is a middle-aged antique dealer. He has a stylish apartment and a fabulous life Read More »
To Paint or Make Love (2005) Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu, Sabine Azéma, Daniel Auteuil, Amira Casar
An affluent, middle-aged couple’s uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple. Read More »
My Favorite Season (1993) André Téchiné, Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Drama, Romance
Too old to reside, Berthe goes with her daughter, Emile, who’s married with grown-up kids of her own. Read More »
L’adversaire / The Adversary (2002) Nicole Garcia, Daniel Auteuil, Géraldine Pailhas, François Cluzet, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L’Adversaire’s protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand’s life and Carrère’s book than was Laurent Cantet’s 2001 film L’Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d’Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
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Quelques jours avec moi / A Few Days with Me (1988) Claude Sautet, Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Martial’s mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent to inspect one of the supermarkets. The manager had taken a large loan of money belonging to the firm. When exposed he expects to lose his job. Instead friendship develops between him and Martial who remitted the debt. A sexual relation begins between Francine and Martial, without jealousy from her boyfriend Fernand. Suddenly Martial disappears. He was called to his mother’s sickbed. Francine took a job as a waitress. It is not clear if she understood that the owner of the bar would force her to do sexual services for some customers. To save Francine Fernand kills the owner. The only witness is Martial who says ‘Run! Do you want to spend ten years in prison!’ If he takes the murder on him, he will just return to the luxury hospital he recently came from.
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Une femme française / A French Woman (1995) Régis Wargnier, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Gabriel Barylli, Drama
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis’ comrades- in-arms. Hopiing to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn’t father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.
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Romuald et Juliette / Mama, There’s a Man in Your Bed (1989) Coline Serreau, Daniel Auteuil, Firmine Richard, Pierre Vernier, Comedy, Romance
This is a story about a rich white man who falls in love with Juliet the full figured black woman who cleans his offices at night. After learning of his wife’s affair with one of his work partners and the sabotage of his business he is left broken and is taken in by Juliet who then shows him what real true love is … If you have not yet seen this movie then you are missing out on what real true love means, it does not matter what color you are, or what size you are it’s how your heart feels and that’s what this beautiful love story shows us all … a must see!
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Les voleurs / Thieves (1996) André Téchiné, Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Laurence Côte, Crime, Drama, Romance
In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan’s body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son. Through flashbacks, the film discloses the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette and Jimmy, Ivan’s partners in a seedy nightclub; the love triangle of Alex, Juliette, and Marie, a professor of philosophy; and of Alex and his nephew, Ivan’s dour, stoic son. Ivan’s death changes every relationship. Images of paragliders, sun bathers, and opera suggest an expansive, colorful world outside the constricted lives of these characters.
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La doublure / The Valet (2006) Francis Veber
A Parisian valet loves a woman who rejects him: she’s in debt to open a bookshop, and he’s not her ideal man. A billionaire two-times his wealthy wife with his beautiful mistress, a young supermodel. To draw the paparazzi and his wife off the trail of adultery, and to give his lawyer time to arrange a divorce that won’t cost him a fortune, the billionaire pays the supermodel and the valet to pretend for a month to be a couple. Within days, the bookshop owner and the billionaire are jealous, the supermodel experiences life with a nice guy, and the valet has status and self-confidence. What will each do with newfound wisdom?
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Je l’aimais / Someone I Loved (2009) Zabou Breitman, Daniel Auteuil, Marie-Josée Croze, Florence Loiret Caille
One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who’s just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre’s secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the woman he left to instead follow an easier path in life.
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