Jeanne is a young weirdo girl who flies to Paris, and is hired by an old lady called Madeleine as an au pair. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jean-François Stévenin
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 »
Mountain Pass AKA Passe montagne (1978) Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Villeret, Yves Le Moign
When the car of Georges, a Parisian architect, breaks down on the motorway Read More »
Genet à Chatila (1999) Richard Dindo, Mounia Raoui, Leila Shahid, Jean-François Stévenin
A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. Read More »
Thick Skinned AKA Peaux de vaches (1989) Patricia Mazuy, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Spiesser
A decade after a man has been killed in an accident in an isolated part of the French countryside, a family tries to come to terms with what happened. Read More »
La tortue sur le dos / a Turtle on Its Back (1978) Luc Béraud, Jean-François Stévenin, Bernadette Lafont, Virginie Thévenet, Comedy, Drama
Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer’s block.
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Double Messieurs (1986) Yves Afonso, Carole Bouquet, Jean-François Stévenin, Drama, Comedy
After 25 years, François, a modest businessman, is reunited with his childhood friend Léo, a film double. It’s a reunion which affects both men profoundly, and immediately they discover their adolescent sense of fun. François proposes that they meet up with the third member of their childhood band, Kuntchinski. But when they break into the latter’s house, they are surprised by his wife, Hélène. Unsure what to do, François and Léo make a snap decision to fake an abduction. Hélène hasn’t any other plans, so she plays along with the kidnap…
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Fait d’hiver (1999) Robert Enrico, Charles Berling, Claude Brasseur, Jean-François Stévenin, Drama
A la fin d’un week-end, Louis Riquier, père divorcé refuse de rendre ses enfants à leur mère. Armé, barricadé dans sa maison, il tient tête à un escadron de gendarmerie. Les médias s’emparent de l’affaire, la tension monte et la situation s’envenime. Riquier menace de tuer ses enfants…
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