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Tag Archives: Jean-Pierre Cassel
No Time for Breakfast AKA Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976) Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, François Périer
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time Read More »
Alice AKA Alicja (1982) Jacek Bromski, Jerzy Gruza, Sophie Barjac, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Susannah York
Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. Read More »
The Killing Game (1967) Alain Jessua, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudine Auger, Michel Duchaussoy
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. Read More »
I Was a Male Sex Bomb (1964) Philippe de Broca, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Irina Demick, Catherine Deneuve
Antoine was raised into the easy life by his very rich grandfather. Read More »
Cyrano et d’Artagnan (1964) Abel Gance, José Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sylva Koscina
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d’Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France. Read More »
The Vanishing Corporal (1962) Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Read More »
Portrait of a Nude Woman (1981) Nino Manfredi, Alberto Lattuada, Eleonora Giorgi, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Comedy, Romance
Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make love. Read More »
Le farceur / The Joker (1960) Philippe de Broca, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Palau, Comedy
Edouard Berlon (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a happy-go-lucky rogue who takes nothing seriously and flits irresponisbly from one affair to another. Read More »
Les fêtes galantes / The Lace Wars (1965) René Clair, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Avron, Marie Dubois, Comedy, History, War
Having lost a battle against the Prince of Beaulieu, Marechal d’Allenberg returns to his castle with his few remaining followers. Read More »
Army of Shadows / L’armée des ombres (1969) Jean-Pierre Melville, Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Drama, War
France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance’s chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles, where he makes the traitor be executed…
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Five Day Lover / L’amant de cinq jours (1961) Philippe de Broca, Jean Seberg, Micheline Presle, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Comedy, Drama
During Madeleine’s fashion show Claire meets Antoine and becomes his mistress. Due to the fact that she’s married (to a wealthy man) she only spends a few days a week with him. Antoine is also rich, and often taken to meetings by his chauffeur, Marius. However things are more complicated: Antoine is Madeleine lover (Claire’s best friend) while George, Claire’s husband is quite rich and has a modest job. Everything works perfectly until Madeleine discovers the truth. She prepares her vengéance and organizes a celebration which she invites Antoine, Claire and George.
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La rupture / The Breach (1970) Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Thriller, Drama
Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their infant son. She stays in a run-down hotel whilst her son convalesces in hospital and she files for divorce. Charles’s wealthy bourgeois father is adamant that Hélène will lose custody of her child and, to that end, he engages a former business associate of Charles, Paul Thomas, to discredit her. When Paul fails to uncover any incriminating evidence against Hélène he concocts a scheme that will destroy her reputation. Things do not go quite as planned…
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Congorama (2006) Philippe Falardeau, Olivier Gourmet, Paul Ahmarani, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Comedy, Drama
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives…
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