Aurore Clément Filmography

On War

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Asia Argento, Guillaume Depardieu, Clotilde Hesme, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: A filmmaker going though a midlife crisis stumbles into a new way of examining life in this comedy-drama from France. Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric) is a movie director who has lost touch with his muse and is desperate to come up with an idea for his next picture. While visiting a funeral home as he Read More

Marie Antoinette

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne

Synopsis: Writer and director Sofia Coppola puts a new spin on the life and times of one of Europe's most infamous monarchs in this lavish historical drama which fuses a contemporary sensibility with painstaking recreations of the look of the 18th century. Born to Austrian nobility, Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst Read More

La Demoiselle d'Honneur

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément, Bernard Le Coq, Solene Bouton

Synopsis: The master of French suspense joins forces with the queen of English suspense fiction for this tense tale of the treacherous love affair between a disturbed bridesmaid and an unsuspecting young man. Philippe (Benoit Magimel) lives in a quiet French town with his hairdresser mother Christine (Aurore Clément Read More

Little Jerusalem

Actors: Fanny Valette, Elsa Zylberstein, Bruno Todeschini, Hedi Tillette DeClermont Tonnerre, Sonia Tahar

Synopsis: An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world in director Karin Albou's incisive meditation on religion, philosophy, and the weight of romance on the mind of a growing girl. Read More

My Brother Is Getting Married

Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Aurore Clément, Cyril Troley, Nguyen Quoc Dung, Delphine Chuillot

Synopsis: The bittersweet story at the heart of this feature begins years prior to the film's outset, when two once-in-love Swiss parents decided to adopt a Vietnamese little boy, Vinh (Quoc Dung Nguyen), as a foster child for themselves and a foster sibling for their biological children. In time, issues Read More

Happily Ever After

Actors: Yvan Attal

Synopsis: Writer, director, and actor Yvan Attal takes another look at the ups and downs of love and monogamy in this biting romantic comedy. Vincent (Yvan Attal), Fred (Alain Cohen), and Georges (Alain Chabat) are three Parisian men in their early forties who are coming to the unfortunate realization that Read More

Bon Voyage

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal, Grégori Derangère, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: The last frantic days before the Germans seized France in 1940 provide an unlikely backdrop for this dark comedy. Viviane (Isabelle Adjani) is a glamorous and well-known film actress who attracts the attentions of many men -- often many she has no interest in knowing. One night, at a reception Read More

Tomorrow We Move

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Natacha Régnier, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: Director Chantal Akerman helmed this offbeat comedy about a mother and daughter who find themselves living together again for the first time in many years. Still reeling emotionally from the recent death of her husband, Catherine (Aurore Clément) has chosen to leave her old home and move in with Read More

Une Affaire Privée

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Marion Cotillard, Samuel Le Bihan, Aurore Clément, Dr. Robert Hirsch

Synopsis: A throwback detective attempts to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of a young Parisian student named Rachel in this noirish mystery from director Guillaume Nicloux. His life a smoky and meaningless haze of women and seedy investigations, private eye François Maneri (Thierry Lhermitte) Read More

La Repentie

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Sami Frey, Samy Naceri, Aurore Clément, Catherine Mouchet

Synopsis: When an indistinct woman named Charlotte (Isabelle Adjani) leaves a train station in hopes of changing her life forever, she's followed by a mysterious stranger with ill intentions. After recovering a bag hidden adeptly within the women's bathroom, Charlotte re-enters the station, this time Read More

Apocalypse Now Redux

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Francis Coppola had more than his share of production difficulties while shooting his epic-scale Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now, including disastrous weather conditions, problems with his leading men (Harvey Keitel was fired after less than two weeks on the project and was replaced by Martin Read More

Trouble Every Day

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret

Synopsis: Two strangers share a strange and terrible bond in this stylish horror tale that juggles sex and graphic bloodshed. Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo) is a strange man with a forbidding nature who has just married lovely but nervous June (Tricia Vessey), and they've decided to go to Paris for their Read More

Faites comme si je n'étais pas là

Actors: Jérémie Renier, Aurore Clément, Johan Leysen, Sami Bouajila, Alexia Stresi

Synopsis: The 400 Blows meets Rear Window in this low-key French thriller directed by Olivier Jahan. Suffering because of the death of his father and the emotional distance of his mother, high-school student Eric (Jeremie Renier) kills time by obsessively spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes Read More

Les Ames calines

Actors: François Berléand, Laetitia Coti, Valérie Donzelli, Laure Duthilleul, Aurore Clément

Tanguy

Actors: Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Eric Berger, Helene Duc, Aurore Clément

Synopsis: The director of the celebrated black comedy Tatie Danielle, Étienne Chatiliez returns to the realm of dark humor with Tanguy. When their eponymous son is born, Paul and Edith Guetz (André Dussolier and Sabine Azema) are so besotted with the new arrival that they make him the fateful promise he can Read More

La Captive

Actors: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovere, Françoise Bertin

Synopsis: Inspired by Proust's short story La Prisonniere, renowned filmmaker Chantel Akerman creates this challenging meditation on love, desire, and obsession. The film opens with grainy Super-8 footage showing Ariane (Sylvie Testud) and her female friends rollicking on a beach. Now Ariane lives in third Read More

Love Me

Actors: Christine Boisson, Aurore Clément, Julie Depardieu, Johnny Hallyday

Synopsis: Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis impersonators, and sailors longing to live and work in Taipei. Sandrine Kiberlain, Johnny Hallyday, and Julian Sands are just a few of the many cast members. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Jet Set

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Lambert Wilson, Ornella Muti, Ariadna Gil, Bruno Solo

Synopsis: In the working-class Paris suburb of Montreuil, Jimmy's (Bruno Solo) restaurant, the Bombay Bar, is on the verge of being closed down by creditors. Jimmy is despondent -- the fact that his wife is about to have a baby isn't helping matters -- when he and his business partner Fifi (Lorant Deutsch) Read More

For Sale

Actors: Sandrine Kiberlain, Sergio Castellitto, Jean-François Stévenin, Chiara Mastroianni, Aurore Clément

Synopsis: Letitia Masson wrote and directed this tale told in flashbacks as a detective tracks a young woman. After France Robert (Sandrine Kiberlain) steals cash and then leaves Marseilles nightclub owner Pierre (Jean-Francois Stevenin) at the altar, he still yearns for her, so he puts private investigator Read More

Nous Sommes Tous Encore Ici

Actors: Aurore Clément, Jean-Luc Godard, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: Especially made for fans of arthouse fare, this intellectually challenging work from writer/director Anne-Marie Mieville offers a heady mixture of ancient and modern philosophical conversation and humor. The film is comprised of three segments. The first is an updated rendition of Plato's Read More

Facciamo Paradiso

Synopsis: Based on a short story from Giuseppe Pontiggia's popular Italian book Vite di uomini non illustri (Lives of Non-Illustrious Men), this comedy chronicles the many lively phases in the life of Claudia Bertelli, who lived between 1949 and 2011. Born to former radicals turned conservative Read More

Mon Homme

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Sabine Azéma

Synopsis: A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French drama. Marie (Anouk Grinberg) has no real need for a pimp, being a self-reliant, unabashed woman so fond of her job as a hooker that she is able to convince strangers to Read More

Joe & Marie

Actors: Estelle Vincent, Gay Etgar, Mathias Gnädinger, Viktor Lazlo, Rufus

Synopsis: This modern drama focuses on interracial, adolescent love between opposites. Marie is a fourteen year old beauty. The daughter of a black woman and a failed alcoholic writer, Marie has dropped out of school to live a life of petty crime. When she accidently meets Joe, a nerd from a conservative Read More

Marie

Actors: Marie Gillain, Alessandro Sigona, Aurore Clément, Sabrina Leurquin, Stephane Ferrara

Synopsis: This European road movie chronicles the misfortunes, hopes, and dreams of a troubled teenage girl alone in a cruel world. Life for Marie has always been hard, but lately things have gotten worse. Her former boyfriend committed suicide. She is pregnant by her current one, her mother is forcing her Read More

Du Poulet

Actors: Aurore Clément, Jean Carmet

Pas D'Amour Sans Amour

Actors: Evelyne Dress, Patrick Chesnais, Jean-Luc Bideau, Aurore Clément

Synopsis: After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva (Evelyne Dress) begins to consider ways that she could take active steps to get some action going in that area. Unfortunately, none of the men she currently knows Read More

Maigret et le Corps Sans Tete

Eline Vere

Actors: Marianne Basler, Monique Van de Ven, Michael York, Thom Hoffman, Aurore Clément

Synopsis: Those whose impressions of the Netherlands are dominated by the very hip modern city of Amsterdam may be unaware that for centuries the country was noted for a pervasive bourgeois stodginess that exceeded anything that Henrik Ibsen ever said about the Norwegian middle class of his time. In 1889 Read More

La Fuite Au Paradis

Actors: Aurore Clément, Fabrice Josso, Jacques Perrin, Ines Sastre

Fuga Dal Paradiso

Actors: Fabrice Josso, Ines Sastre, Horst Buchholz, Aurore Clément, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: In this post-apocalpytic adventure story, narrated by Van Johnson), Teo (Fabrice Josso) lives underground in a cave with his father, who is a member of a ruling clan. Except for people within a family, all contacts between citizens are supposed to be electronic. However, Teo manages to contact and Read More

Stan the Flasher

Actors: Claude Berri, Aurore Clément, Richard Bohringer

Synopsis: Claude Berri, who usually participates in films by directing them, here returns to the screen as an over-the-hill lothario, much given to quoting Shakespeare, who occasionally goes around naked under his raincoat and exposes himself to strangers, who are usually not interested in his primitive Read More

Gemini: The Twin Stars

Actors: Gene Patrick, Thomas Knock, Dennis Moynahan, Mark Folger

Synopsis: On the run in Switzerland from a drug bust, Matthew finds an unexpected (but very welcome) patron in the wayward wife of a U.S. senator, who cavorts rather insistently with the handsome young man while her husband remains in Washington. Before long, the young man is eager to escape from his new Read More

Comedie d'amour

Actors: Michel Serrault, Annie Girardot, Aurore Clément, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Carel

Synopsis: The very busy actor Michel Serrault lends his talents to the depiction of a monstre sacree of French literature, the extremely repugnant but very clever Paul Leautaud, who was famous for his rude, clever observations and his epigrams. Although unkempt and very mean, his rapier-like wit and strong Read More

Mosca Addio

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski, Aurore Clément, Francesca Ciardi, Anna Galiena

Synopsis: Liv Ullmann plays real-life Jewish dissident and astronomer Ida Nudel in this historical biography. Ida is denied papers to emigrate after her lover Yuli (Daniel Olbrychski) is release from a labor camp. When Yuli and Ida's sister Elena (Aurore Clement) receive their papers, Ida rides with them on Read More

Suizo - Un Amour En Espagne

Actors: Jurg Low, Aurore Clément, Silvia Munt, Alfredo Mayo, Luis Barbero

Synopsis: This engaging drama is about an introspective, shy Swiss journalist. Told in a series of flashbacks, Hans (Jurg Low) remembers when he went to Spain to cover the nation's reaction to the fascist Franco's death. Hans' own father had gone to Spain as a part of the International Brigade, and while Read More

Festa Di Laurea

Actors: Aurore Clément, Lidia Broccolino, Nik Novecento

Synopsis: The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman fuel the action in this comedy by Pupi Avati. It is 1950 and the coastal town of Rimini is about to experience another influx of the monied elite who come to wile away their time in elegant Read More

Le Livre de Marie

Paris, Texas

Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Hunter Carson

Synopsis: Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in desperate need of water, when he stumbles into a bar and collapses. A German doctor of dubious credentials finds a phone number in Travis' wallet, which belongs to his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell). Walt is Read More

Les Années 80

Actors: Amid Chakir, Aurore Clément

Synopsis: All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping mall where people audition for an upcoming show. Afterward, they are seen going through the grueling routines of learning the music and rehearsing. Read More

Sur

Actors: Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Icíar Bollaín, Lola Cardona, Rafaela Aparicio

Synopsis: El Sur (The South) is the story of Estrella (Iciar Bollain), a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North. Estrella maintains a sentimentalized attachment to the region of her birth, an attachment manifested in her love for her father (Omero Antonutti). The girl's Read More

Invitation Au Voyage

Actors: Laurent Malet, Nina Scott, Aurore Clément, Mario Adorf, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: After his twin sister is killed in an accident, her distraught brother (Laurent Malet) jams her corpse in a cello case and hits the road. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Les Fantomes du Chapelier

Actors: Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette, Aurore Clément, Christine Paolini

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, based on a Georges Simenon novel, a homicidal maniac goes on a killing spree beginning with his wife, whom he kept in the cellar. He then kills six of her aged friends and is preparing to murder a seventh when the intended victim dies naturally. As a substitute, he murders Read More

Toute Une Nuit

Actors: Angelo Abazoglou, Natalie Akerman, Michele Blondeel

Synopsis: The English-language title of Toute Une Nuit is All Night Long, but don't confuse this film with the like-titled 1981 Gene Hackman-Barbra Streisand comedy. Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman uses a fragmentary approach to explore a series of personal relationships among a largely nonprofessional Read More

L'Amour des Femmes

Actors: Heinz Bennent, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Marc Bory, Jean-Pierre Malo, Aurore Clément

Synopsis: Although there are women in the lives of the three main protagonists -- a middle-aged architect, his construction designer, and a journalist -- the women are not as crucial to the men's search for an identity as the title might suggest. When the three men run into a former professor of the Read More

So Wiet Das Auge Reicht

Actors: Bernd Tauber, Aurore Clément, Jürgen Prochnow, Antonia Reininghaus, Hans Michael Rehberg

5% de Risque

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Aurore Clément, Pierre Michael, Fernand Guiot

Cinq Pour Cent De Risque

Actors: Pierre Michael, Bruno Ganz, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Aurore Clément

Aimee

Actors: Aurore Clément, Bruno Cremer, Jean Sorel, Francine Bergé

Buone Notizie

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Ángela Molina, Aurore Clément, Paolo Bonacelli, Ombretta Colli

Synopsis: A junior executive (Giancarlo Giannini) is exasperated with his sexually repressed wife (Angela Molina) in this black comedy dripping with satire. The couple later ends up in bed with the man's mistress (Ombretta Colli) for a menage a trois. The man is pestered by his frantic friend Gualitiero (Paolo Bonacelli Read More

Caro Papà

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Aurore Clément, Andrée LaChapelle, Stefano Madia, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Dear Father and Dear Papa are the English-language titles for the Italian domestic drama Caro Papa. Vittorio Gassman plays a flint-hearted industrialist who thinks as little of destroying his business partner as he does of cheating on his wife. Gassman's son is an apparently weak-willed lad, who Read More

Lovers and Liars

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Aurore Clément, Renzo Montagnani, Laura Betti, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: A presumptuous American actress falls for a handsome Italian banker before embarking on the misadventure of a lifetime in this comedy of errors starring Goldie Hawn and Giancarlo Giannini. Anita (Hawn) is an American actress vacationing in Rome. When the free-spirited screen star sets her sights Read More

Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna

Actors: Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Lea Massari, Magali Noël, Helmut Griem

Synopsis: Anna (Aurore Clement) is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents with her, despite her obvious Read More

Le Crabe-Tambour

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Dufilho, Odile Versois

Synopsis: Le Crabe Tambour (The Crab Drum) stars Jacques Perrin as the title character. An officer in the French navy, Perrin has earned his nickname through his habit of beating his chest a la King Kong after consuming a crab dinner. Stories of this eccentric but courageous warrior remain in circulation Read More

Le Juge Fayard Dit le Sheriff

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Aurore Clément, Philippe Léotard, Michel Auclair, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: Fayard (Patrick Dewaere) is a magistrate of the French courts, who is unusually enthusiastic in seeking justice. For instance, when his girlfriend is trapped in a store-front bordello, he has no qualms about arranging (and joining) a police raid on the place. This stunt earned him the nickname Read More

Caro Michele

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Delphine Seyrig, Aurore Clément, Marcella Michelangeli, Lou Castel

Synopsis: Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would Read More

Lacombe Lucien

Actors: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Loewenadler, Therese Giehse, Stephane Bouy

Synopsis: With a superb music score by Django Reinhardt, this is a Louis Malle film about the German occupation of France. Based on his own experiences in France during the occupation, Malle's film does not paint a pretty picture of the French Resistance and eventually he emigrated to America because of the Read More