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Tag Archives: Fanny Ardant
The Nonentity AKA Le paltoquet (1986) Michel Deville, Fanny Ardant, Daniel Auteuil, Richard Bohringer
Miss Lotte has her residence in a big hangar near a port. Read More »
The Secrets AKA Ha-Sodot (2007) Avi Nesher, Fanny Ardant, Ania Bukstein, Michal Shtamler
In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive Read More »
The Libertine AKA Le libertin (2000) Gabriel Aghion, Vincent Perez, Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko
The ‘philosopher’ (modernist intellectual of the French 18th-century Enlightenment) Denis Diderot Read More »
Paura e amore (1988) Margarethe von Trotta, Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino
An adaptation of a classic “Three Sisters” play by Anton Chekhov. Read More »
Face AKA Visage (2009) Ming-liang Tsai, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu, Fanny Ardant
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth. Read More »
Ridicule (1996) Patrice Leconte, Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant
In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue. Read More »
Colonel Chabert (1994) Yves Angelo, Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war Read More »
The Trial Begins (2007) Vincenzo Marra, Fanny Ardant, Michele Lastella, Giulia Bevilacqua
Filippo, a cold-hearted customs and tax investigator, shakes down business owners. Read More »
Beyond the Clouds (1995) Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders, Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Read More »
Mélo (1986) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who’s the wife of an old friend. Read More »
Conseil de famille / Family Business (1986) Costa-Gavras, Johnny Hallyday, Fanny Ardant, Guy Marchand, Comedy, Crime
French rocker Johnny Hallyday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. Read More »
Afraid of the Dark (1991) Mark Peploe, James Fox, Fanny Ardant, Paul McGann, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Lucas is a little boy who’s going blind. The only thing that could save his eyesight is a risky eye operation that could either fix his eyes or blind him for good. Read More »
Callas Forever (2002) Franco Zeffirelli, Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright, Biography, Drama, Music
The partially fictionalized film is set in 1977, the year in which Callas died, and centers on the making of a movie of Georges Bizet’s Carmen. The diva, whose now-ragged voice is well past its prime, is persuaded to star in it by longtime friend and former manager Larry Kelly, who abandoned classical music to become a rock impresario. He insists by lip-synching to her old recording she will recapture her lost youth and leave behind a priceless legacy for her admirers, and his theory is supported by Callas confidante and journalist Sarah Keller.
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La cena / The Dinner (1998) Ettore Scola, Fanny Ardant, Antonio Catania, Francesca d’Aloja, Comedy, Drama
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in — large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single — to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people’s discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff’s petty jealousies and frustrations — until two hours later it’s time for everybody to go home.
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