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unusual facts about French film



Crustacés et Coquillages

Crustacés et coquillages (translated into English as the punning Cockles and Muscles) also known as Côte d'Azur, is a 2005 French film directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.

Girish Shambu

In an interview for a sub-site of the film criticism website The House Next Door in 2006, Shambu named Pauline Kael's review of Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill, James Monaco's book on the French New Wave (which he read several times before he had ever seen a French film), J. Hoberman's Vulgar Modernism and the website of cinephile Acquarello as having had a formative influence on his interest in film.


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À l'aventure

À l'aventure is a 2008 French film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau.

A Man and His Dog

A Man and His Dog (Un Homme et Son Chien) is a 2009 French film directed by French director Francis Huster, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, based on the 1952 film Umberto D. directed by Vittorio De Sica, and written by Cesare Zavattini.

Abdel Raouf Dafri

Abdel Raouf Dafri (born 13 August 1964 in Marseille and raised near Lille) is a César Award winning French film and television scriptwriter.

André Hardellet

French film-maker Philippe Claudel, Associate Professor of Modern Literature at Nancy 2 University, based his thesis on Hardellet's work, titling it "Géographies d'André Hardellet".

Anouk

Anouk Aimée (b. 1932 as Françoise Sorya Dreyfus), pseudonym of a French film actress

Anton Perich

From 1965 to 1970, he lived in Paris and became close to the group of poets and artist working in the Lettrism group: (Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître), but also with French film underground milieu (Piero Heliczer, Michel Auder, Raphaël Bassan, Slobodan Pajic, Pierre Clémenti).

Buffet froid

Buffet froid is a 1979 French film written and directed by Bertrand Blier, starring Gérard Depardieu, Carole Bouquet, Bernard Blier and Jean Carmet.

Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion

The mansion has been featured in various films including the 1993 Oscar-winning French film "Indochine" starring Catherine Deneuve, 'The Red Kebaya', "Road to Dawn', '3rd Generation' and the critically acclaimed 'The Blue Mansion' in 2009 by Singapore Director Glen Goei of 'Forever Fever' fame.

Christophe Gans

Gans was to write and direct the Capcom video game Onimusha, however, after several setbacks he abandoned it and is now attached to the French film Fantômas.

Clean Slate

Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate), a French film released in 1981

Clouzot

Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), French film director, screenwriter and producer

Colin George

Colin George was also a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during the years 1994-1999, in plays such as Peer Gynt, Coriolanus, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest and a stage musical adaptation of the French film Les Enfants du Paradis.

Fechner

Christian Fechner (1944–2008), French film producer and screenwriter

Georges Dancigers

Georges Dancigers (17 February 1908 Tukums, Russian Empire(now Latvia) – 1 November 1993 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was a Russian-born French film producer.

House of Pleasure

House of Pleasure (film), English title for French film Le Plaisir by director Max Ophüls adapting three stories by Guy de Maupassant (Le Masque, La Maison Tellier and Le Modèle).

Igor Troubetzkoy

His brother, Youcca Troubetzkoy, was an actor in French film during the 1920s and 1930s.

Jean-Pierre Melville

Tim Palmer "Jean-Pierre Melville and 1970s French Film Style," Studies in French Cinema, 2:3, Spring 2003

Katie Kim

She has also scored an original soundtrack for The Seashell and the Clergyman, commissioned by The Cork French Film Festival, which she performed in The Pavilion, Cork in front of a live audience in 2011.

Kurt Großkurth

In the early 1970s he was - again, in small supporting roles - in major international productions such as Ludwig II by Luchino Visconti and Bluebeard of Hollywood director to see Edward Dmytryk and played in the French film The Shadow Line directed by Georges Franju.

L'Appel du silence

L'Appel du Silence is a 1936 French film directed by Leo Poirier based on the life of Charles de Foucauld.

L'autre monde

L'autre monde ("The Other World") (titled "Black Heaven" in English) is a 2010 French film directed by Gilles Marchand and starring Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud and Pauline Etienne.

Lautner

Georges Lautner (1926–2013), French film director and screenwriter

Le Hénaff

René Le Hénaff (1901–2005), French film editor and director

Le Jaguar

Le Jaguar is a 1996 French film directed by Francis Veber starring Jean Reno, Patrick Bruel, Harrison Lowe, and Patricia Velásquez.

Le Libertin

Le Libertin (The Libertine) is a French film, a comedy, directed by Gabriel Aghion, released in 2000.

Les 400 Coups

The 400 Blows, (French: Les Quatre Cents Coups), a 1959 French film directed by François Truffaut

Les femmes s'en balancent

Les femmes s'en balancent is a 1954 French film featuring Peter Cheyney's Lemmy Caution.

Linh Dan Pham

In 2005, Pham made a return to acting with her role in the BAFTA and César winning French film The Beat That My Heart Skipped, opposite Romain Duris for which she was nominated again for the most promising actress César award (and won).

Louis Majorelle

Majorelle's work, particularly the mahogany desk from the Musée d'Orsay, is featured prominently in the 2008 French Film L'heure d'été, released in the US as Summer Hours in 2009.

Løve

Mia Hansen-Løve (born 1981), French film director and screenwriter

Madison Young

MSNBC journalist Brian Alexander devoted a chapter of his 2008 book America Unzipped to her work and art, and French film director Virginie Despentes features Young in her forthcoming documentary, Mutantes.

Mondy

Pierre Mondy (1925–2012), French film and theatre actor and director

Museum of Arts and Traditions of Sevilla

The building has been used several times as a set for films or television shows, including the 1974 American film The Wind and the Lion and the 1985 French Film Harem, where it was used as the British Embassy.

Noir et Blanc

Noir et Blanc is a 1986 French film written and directed by Claire Devers.

Pierre Bachelet

He also did the score for Story of O, another huge success for him and the French film Un crime au paradis.

Pierre François Lacenaire

He is depicted in the French film Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis, 1945), directed by Marcel Carné from a script by Jacques Prévert.

Raphaël Millet

From 2002 to 2006, he was posted as Cultural attaché in the Singapore, where he supervised the programming of the annual French Film Festival, and where he organised the outdoor exhibition Earth from Above (La Terre vue du ciel) by Yann Arthus-Bertrand on Orchard Road.

René Allio

René Allio (August 3, 1924, Marseille – March 27, 1995) was a French film and theater director.

Ricardo Semprun

He is the third of five children of the writer, politician, and former Minister of Culture for Spain Jorge Semprún and the French film-editor Colette Leloup.

Rimsky

Nicolas Rimsky (1886–1941), Russian-born French film director and actor

Rouch

Jean Rouch (1917–2004), French film director and anthropologist

Rudy Coby

Coby's 'four legs' act is said to have inspired the director of the French film, Delicatessen, to include a multi-legged hero in the film after reportedly seeing him on Patrick Sebastien's early show, "Sebastien, c'est Fou!".

Sachs' Disease

La maladie de Sachs (English: Sachs' Disease) is a 1999 French film directed by Michel Deville from a novel by Martin Winckler.

Sarah Tullamore

Tullamore features as the English nurse in the 2008 French film Les Femmes de l'ombre (Female Agents), directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and starring Sophie Marceau.

The Alan Bown Set

In November 1966 Burgess was replaced by Tony Catchpole and in 1967 the band released "Gonna Fix You Good (Everytime You're Bad)" / "I Really, Really Care" and recorded the soundtrack for Jeu de Massacre a French film featuring Jacques Loussier.

The Faithful Heart

Cœur fidèle, a 1923 French film with the English title The Faithful Heart

Tourneur

Maurice Tourneur (1873-1961), French film director and screenwriter

Une sale histoire

Une Sale Histoire (also known as A Dirty Story) is an unusual short 1977 French film of two halves, or two related short films tagged on to each other, by French director Jean Eustache.

Zoo zéro

Zoo zéro is a 1979 French film directed by Alain Fleischer and starring Klaus Kinski.