On New Year’s Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris Read More »
Tag Archives: Jean Rochefort
Practice Makes Perfect AKA Le cavaleur (1979) Philippe de Broca, Jean Rochefort, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Claude Ventura
Pianist deemed Edouard Choiseur continues to run between sentimental and professional contingencies. Read More »
Man on the Train AKA L’Homme du Train (2002) Patrice Leconte, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin
One evening, a stranger, Milan, arrives in a small French town and enters a pharmacy to buy some aspirin. Read More »
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed AKA Il faut tuer Birgitt Haas (1981) Laurent Heynemann, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Lisa Kreuzer
“Hangar” is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. Read More »
Barracuda (1997) Philippe Haïm, Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Canet, Claire Keim
A mad but cunning old man imprisons a young man in his apartment to be his friend. Read More »
The Watchmaker of St. Paul AKA L’horloger de Saint-Paul (1974) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis
Michel Descombes is a watchmaker in the district of Saint-Paul, Lyons. Read More »
The Time to Die AKA Le temps de mourir (1970) André Farwagi, Anna Karina, Bruno Cremer, Jean Rochefort
Topfer Max discovers a picture that depicts his own murder. Read More »
Angélique, marquise des anges (1964) Bernard Borderie, Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort
In this first part of the Angélique cycle, set in Mid-17th century France under the young Sun King Louis XIV Read More »
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? AKA Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? (1966) William Klein, Dorothy McGowan, Jean Rochefort, Sami Frey
This excoriating satire of the fashion industry follows 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model Polly Maggoo in Paris Read More »
We Will All Meet in Paradise AKA Nous irons tous au paradis (1977) Yves Robert, Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos
The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Read More »
Drummer-Crab AKA Le Crabe-Tambour (1977) Pierre Schoendoerffer, Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jacques Perrin
A dying French naval frigate captain tries to make a last rendezvous in the winter storm-tossed seas off the Grand Banks Read More »
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) Josée Dayan, Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Jean Rochefort
A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. 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 »
The Hairdresser’s Husband (1990) Patrice Leconte, Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin
Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets. Read More »
The Return of the Tall Blond Man (1974) Yves Robert, Pierre Richard, Jean Carmet, Jean Rochefort
With ‘little captain’ Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called “super spy” Read More »