Fabrice Luchini

  • Jacques Richard – Le Vivarium AKA Ne [+Extra] (1975)

    1971-1980ArthouseCultFranceJacques Richard

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    Le point de départ du film est une entrevue inédite de Godard en juin 68, où il exprime ses idées et sa démarche cinématographique révolutionnaires. Il prône ainsi le gaspillage de la pellicule et la résistance au cinéma commercial. “Le Vivarium” pose la question: que deviennent les acteurs d’un film si on leur supprime leur texte ou le scénario?Read More »

  • Yves Angelo – Le colonel Chabert AKA Colonel Chabert (1994)

    1991-2000DramaFranceYves Angelo

    Synopsis
    Colonel Chabert is mistaken for dead during the Napoleonic war with Russia. When he returns to Paris some years later, he finds that his wife, Anne, has married the Count Ferraud, and is using Chabert’s wealth to finance Ferraud’s social advancement. When his wife refuses to recognise him, Chabert approaches a lawyer, Derville, to reinstate his honour and his wealth. Unfortunately, Anne Ferraud realises that she risks losing everything if she acknowledges Chabert as her husband, and intends to fight her former husband every inch of the way…Read More »

  • François Ozon – Dans la maison AKA In the House (2012)

    2011-2020DramaFranceFrançois OzonMystery

    A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.Read More »

  • Christophe Honoré – Marcello Mio (2024)

    2021-2030Christophe HonoréComedyFrance

    Chiara is an actress and daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. One summer, she decides to live like her father. She dresses, speaks, and breathes like him with such conviction that others start calling her “Marcello”.Read More »

  • Pierre Granier-Deferre – La couleur du vent (1988)

    1981-1990DramaFrancePierre Granier-Deferre

    Starring Philippe Léotard and Elizabeth Bourgine, with Fabrice Luchini and Jean-Pierre Léaud in smaller parts, “La couleur du vent” (color of the wind) tells the tale of an editor working in a Paris publishing house who falls in love with an author she never met, after reading his manuscript.Read More »

  • Eric Rohmer – Les nuits de la pleine lune AKA Full Moon in Paris (1984)

    Eric Rohmer1981-1990ArthouseDramaFrance

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    Louise lives with Rémi in Marne-la-Vallée. He is an architect, she is an interior decorator. Their lives would be perfect if Rémi were less of a homebody, and if Louise were not such a night owl. Conscious of preserving her independence, Louise rents a pied-à-terre in Paris. Octave, her friend and confidant, is always ready to accompany her during her night prowls. One evening, beneath a full moon, and Octave’s jealous, loving gaze, she succumbs to the charms of a sensual dancer. As day breaks she realises, however, that she would much rather be with Rémi.Read More »

  • Benoît Jacquot – Par coeur (1998)

    Benoît Jacquot1991-2000FrancePerformance
    Par coeur (1998)
    Par coeur (1998)

    unifrance.org” wrote:
    Fabrice Luchini recites from La Fontaine, Céline, Flaubert and other great writers, followed and filmed through his performances by Benoît Jacquot. Alone on stage, Luchini speaks, recites, narrates and acts out some of the finest pearls of French literature.Read More »

  • Benoît Jacquot – Par coeurs AKA By Heart (2022)

    Benoît Jacquot2021-2030DocumentaryFrance
    Par coeurs (2022)

    It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini recites Nietzsche. Both actors are premiering at Avignon’s Festival. When they leave backstage to stand out on stage, they are completely transformed. As everything seems utterly natural, audience does not imagine what happened before. By following their daily lives during the weeks preceding the premieres, Benoît Jacquot brings a singular perspective of the two actors and shows them like we’ve never seen before.Read More »

  • Édouard Molinaro – Beaumarchais l’insolent AKA Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)

    Édouard Molinaro1991-2000AdventureFranceRomance
    Beaumarchais l'insolent (1996)
    Beaumarchais l’insolent (1996)

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    Here is a lavish and charming film about a decade in the life of the multi-talented eighteenth century playwright and political activist. Under the guiding hand of director Edouard Molinaro, Fabrice Luchini gives a polished, witty, and mesmerizing performance as this French patron saint of freedom. Throughout his turbulent life, Pierre-Augustin Caron Beaumarchais swung back and forth between the pinnacles of success and the ignominy of imprisonment. His classic plays, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, were politically critical of the ruling class and corruption in high places. They both landed him in jail. But the resilient Beaumarchais found a new avenue for his creativity as a secret agent in England. There he got involved with an American who persuaded him to run arms for the American colonies. Beaumarchais, The Scoundrel is a convincing parable about the intoxicating enchantments and the spiritual firepower of freedom.Read More »

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