Movie about friends who reunite after 20 years and a lot of things have changed. Read More »
Tag Archives: Josiane Balasko
French Fried Vacation 2 AKA Les bronzés font du ski (1979) Patrice Leconte, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel
Eight tourists who met in a holiday camp on the Ivory Coast are reunited for a skiing holiday. Read More »
French Fried Vacation AKA Les bronzés (1978) Patrice Leconte, Josiane Balasko, Luis Rego, Marie-Anne Chazel
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined Read More »
Le maître d’école (1981) Claude Berri, Coluche, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Debary
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting Read More »
Too Beautiful for You AKA Trop belle pour toi (1989) Bertrand Blier, Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted Read More »
A Crime in Paradise AKA Un crime au paradis (2001) Jean Becker, Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, André Dussollier
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other Read More »
The Year 01 AKA L’an 01 (1973) Jacques Doillon, Alain Resnais, Véronique Alain, Josiane Balasko, Romain Bouteille
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. Read More »
The Little Wheedlers AKA Les petits câlins (1978) Jean-Marie Poiré, Dominique Laffin, Caroline Cartier, Josiane Balasko
Sophie (Dominique Laffin) lives with Corinne (Josiane Balasko) Read More »
Actors AKA Les acteurs (2000) Bertrand Blier, Pierre Arditi, Josiane Balasko, Jean-Paul Belmondo
A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris. 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 »
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2005) Serge Le Péron, Saïd Smihi, Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko
My name is Georges Figon. Okay I’m dead but, being the talkative kind, death isn’t going to stop me from speaking. Read More »
Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982) Jean-Marie Poiré, Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel
Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. Read More »
Le hérisson / The Hedgehog (2009) Mona Achache, Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Drama
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Read More »
Les Hommes préfèrent les Grosses (1981) Jean-Marie Poiré, Josiane Balasko, Luis Rego, Dominique Lavanant, Comedy
Lydie prend possession d’un grand appartement pour son fiancé et elle. Mais il la quitte. Le loyer étant trop cher, elle opte pour la cohabitation. C’est un mannequin, Eva, qui lui loue la chambre. Eva a beaucoup d’amis et Lydie, possédant un physique moins avantageux, voit sa vie bousculée…
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Gazon Maudit (1995) Josiane Balasko, Victoria Abril, Alain Chabat, Comedy
Laurent and Loli are a thirty-ish married couple living in southern France with their young children. He is an estate agent; she is a housewife. Laurent has extramarital affairs. Loli is unaware that her husband is unfaithful. Then one day, a campervan breaks down in front of their house. The driver is Marijo, a 40s-ish butch lesbian who works as a DJ…
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