Pianist deemed Edouard Choiseur continues to run between sentimental and professional contingencies. Read More »
Tag Archives: Nicole Garcia
The Fourth Power AKA Le 4ème pouvoir (1985) Serge Leroy, Philippe Noiret, Nicole Garcia, Roland Blanche
He, Yves Dorget, is a major reporter in a daily newspaper. She, Catherine Carré, is a TV news anchor. Read More »
Going Away AKA Un beau dimanche (2013) Nicole Garcia, Pierre Rochefort, Louise Bourgoin, Dominique Sanda
Baptiste is a solitary type. A teacher in southern France, he never stays more Read More »
Street of Mirrors AKA Via degli specchi (1983) Giovanna Gagliardo, Nicole Garcia, Milva, Heinz Bennent
Francesca, a magistrate, seems happily married to a successful and wealthy engineer. Read More »
Bolero AKA Les uns et les autres (1981) Claude Lelouch, Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin
Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia Read More »
La question (1977) Laurent Heynemann, Jacques Denis, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Sentier
In Algiers, during 1957, the army was sent to restore order. Henri Charlègue, the editor of a newspaper sympathetic to the FLN Read More »
Les capricieux (1984) Michel Deville, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christian Benedetti
In post-revolutionary France, two neighbouring aristocrats (Nicole Garcia and Jean-Pierre Marielle) embark on a dangerous game when they agree to help a Polish agent. Read More »
Waiter! (1983) Claude Sautet, Yves Montand, Nicole Garcia, Jacques Villeret
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Read More »
Copkiller (l’assassino dei poliziotti) (1983) Roberto Faenza, Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Nicole Garcia
A pair of corrupt cops spend their illegal cash on an uptown New York City apartment. Read More »
Betty Fisher and Other Stories / Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001) Claude Miller, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it’s wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose’s mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.
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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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La petite Lili / Little Lili (2003) Claude Miller, Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Drama, Romance
A group of cinematic spend a holiday in the French countryside. The film provides insight in their relationships, including that between a young man and a local girl, Lili. She uses the opportunity to work her way into the cinematic world, and for which she swaps her young friend for his mother’s lover. This settled filmmaker takes Lili on a trip to Paris. A few years later the young man has become a filmmaker himself. His first film is inspired by the mentioned holiday. Lili, by now an actress, learns about it and works herself in a refined way into its cast. Ending up as the star of this production. No more than that, for the young filmmaker remains faithful to his wife and young daughter.
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