Virginie Thévenet
1957 (67 лет)L'Argent de poche
François Truffaut
Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet
Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's awakening interest in girls, couples double-dating at the movies, brothers giving their friend a haircut, a boy dealing with an abusive home life, a baby and a cat sitting by an open window, a child telling a dirty joke, and a boy who develops a crush on his friend's mother.
Small Change
Une sale histoire
Jean Eustache
Michael Lonsdale, Laurie Zimmer
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
A Dirty Story
A Good Marriage
Éric Rohmer
Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
A Good Marriage
Jeux d'artifices
Virginie Thévenet
Myriam David, Gaël Seguin
Elisa and Eric are two teenage war orphans. They change their apartment on the outskirts of the city into a photo-studio to make a living, and they are very devoted to it. The two seem to live like heavenly beings without connecting to the outside world. Their only contact with the exterior is through Jacques, a loyal friend, but he also cuts himself out of any social life. The sister and the brother then take to get in touch with the world by Mrs Jean, a friend of their deceased mother with whom Elisa takes courses of singing. They live in harmony until a young man, whom Elisa falls for, eventually leaves with Eric for the USA and left her brokenhearted alone in France.
Jeux d'artifices
Sam suffit
Virginie Thévenet
Aure Atika, Jean-François Balmer
After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer. After she gets settled, she takes a job at a government office for a while but then decides to have a child, which her obliging roommate makes with her the old fashioned way. He then returns to his usual preference, while Eva explores becoming an artist herself. From time to time in this easygoing comedy, Eva's similarly independent and quirky mother (Bernadette Lafont) shows up.
Sam's Enough
The Cry of the Owl
Claude Chabrol
Christophe Malavoy, Mathilda May
Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites him in...
The Cry of the Owl
La tortue sur le dos
Luc Béraud
Jean-François Stévenin, Bernadette Lafont
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. He tries every remedy known to man and makes up a few new ones in this comedy. All his efforts are futile: he loses his girlfriend and his apartment and has a succession of misadventures until finally, homeless and hospitalized, he rediscovers his inspiration.
Like a Turtle on Its Back
Rosette vend des roses
Rosette
Rosette, Virginie Thévenet
A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of regular players from Rohmer films. With the help of her friends, Rosette takes advantage of a gullible stranger passing by in order to sell him all her roses.
Rosette vend des roses
Les Stances à Sophie
Moshé Mizrahi
Bernadette Lafont, Michel Duchaussoy
Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.
Sophie's Ways
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
Pierre Zucca
Fabrice Luchini, Michel Bouquet
This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
Faustine et le bel été
Nina Companéez
Muriel Catalá, Claire Vernet
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
