Caroline CellierFilmography

Jean-Philippe

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Johnny Hallyday, Guilaine Londez, Antoine Dulery, Elodie Bollee

Synopsis: A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'état is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he's not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice (Fabrice Luchini) lives a deadly dull life in the Read More

Le Plaisir

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Francois Renaud, Julie Gayet, Mathieu Kassovitz, Caroline Cellier

Synopsis: Director Nicolas Boukhrief, who debuted with the 1995 Up Yours, returned with this French-Italian-Luxembourgian-Belgian drama in seven segments. In a variation on Schnitzler's La Ronde, each segment introduces a character seen in the next episode: In the opening, a murderer strangles a woman. A Read More

Didier

Actors: Alain Chabat, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Gélinas, Caroline Cellier, Michel Hazanavicius

Synopsis: In this French fantasy-comedy, a magical moonbeam turns a dog into a man's best friend. Annabelle (Caroline Cellier) is a reporter who is sent on an overseas assignment and doesn't think it would be such a great idea to bring Didier, her Golden Retriever, along, so she leaves the pooch in the care Read More

Hommes, Femmes: Mode d'Emploi

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Bernard Tapie, Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: A feather-light and funny musing on the nature of love, fate and starting over, Claude Lelouch's comedy begins with the meeting of Fabio Lini, an actor turned undercover Paris cop and the notorious lawyer-cum-businessman Benoit Blanc . Both have come to the same clinic to have their ulcers Read More

L'Elève

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Caspar Salmon

Synopsis: Based on a story by Henry James and set in the late 19th century, this complex and irony-laced French costume drama chronicles the convoluted relationship between young Morgan and his highly intelligent tutor Julien. When the 25-year-old Julien is first hired, teen-aged Morgan objects. A power Read More

Farinelli

Actors: Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Caroline Cellier, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: The performer known as Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi (and played in this film by Stefano Dionisi), was famous in the 18th century as the world's greatest castrato, a male singer whose testicles were removed in childhood so that he would retain the high, clear voice of a child while gaining Read More

Delit Mineur

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Claude Brasseur, Niels Arestrup, Christopher Thompson, Macha Meril

Synopsis: Adultery and the possibility of patricide provide the motives behind this French drama, set in a Parisian suburb. Claire is in her earlier forties and is married to Claude, an alcoholic whom she once passionately loved. Together they have a young daughter and 15-year old Guillaume. Claire is Read More

Le Zebre

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Caroline Cellier, Christian Pereira, Annie Gregorio

Synopsis: In his work as a notary, Hippolyte has registered prenuptial agreements entrusted to him by hopeful young couples and divorce settlements by unhappy older couples. He has often seen the spark of romance wither and die among his clients and the people in his life, and he is determined not to allow Read More

La Contre Allee

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Jacqueline Maillan, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: Marie has always been somewhat independent and is considered by some to be a bit of a tomboy. Though she is not quite a teenager, her photographer father has no qualms about leaving her alone for a while when he has to go off on an assignment. One day, while she is walking along, she gets run down Read More

L'Année Des Meduses

Actors: Valérie Kaprisky, Bernard Giraudeau, Caroline Cellier, Jacques Perrin, Béatrice Agenin

Synopsis: This standard erotic thriller set in St. Tropez involves an unusual ménage à trois first there is Claude, a mother approaching 40 who is also approaching a liaison with the second and pivotal figure in the trio; Romain (Bernard Giraudeau), a Don Juan who is not above pimping on occasion and Read More

Vent de Panique

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Bernard Giraudeau, Olivia Brunaux, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Charlie Dingo

Actors: Guy Marchand, Caroline Cellier, Laurent Malet, Niels Arestrup, Maurice Barrier

Synopsis: Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life insurance policy in this shadowy drama. He finds Georgia is married to the crooked cop William (Niels Arestrup), who has his eye on the insurance Read More

Grand Guignol

Actors: Guy Marchand, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Galabru, Olivia Brunaux

Synopsis: A traveling theater troupe is divided by the romantic unrest of several couples in this sometimes macabre and uneven comedy drama. Baptiste (Guy Marchand) is the troupe's director who finds his creativity has been drained and who is in the process of splitting with his actress-wife Sarah (Caroline Cellier Read More

Poker

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Pierre Arditi, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Jacque Mathou

Femmes De Personne

Actors: Marthe Keller, Caroline Cellier, Fanny Cottençon, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Femmes De Personne is a French "feminist" film that comes off as slightly misogynistic (not to mention misanthropic) at times. Is it possible to be happy in business and still be happy in bed? The four leading ladies, all successful career women, don't seem particularly blissful. On the contrary Read More

Poulet Au Vinaigre

Actors: Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Caroline Cellier, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: In a routine murder mystery based on a novel by Dominique Roulet, a cruel, wheelchair-bound invalid (Stephane Audran) who consistently terrorizes her teen son Louis (Lucas Belvaux) into abject obedience, is threatened with the loss of her home by a conniving trio who want her property as part of a Read More

P'tit Con

Actors: Bernard Brieux, Guy Marchand, Caroline Cellier, Eric Carlos, Philippe Khorsand

Synopsis: Director Gérard Lauzier shoots diatribes at "liberals" from his own conservative perspective in this movie about a rebellious teenager leaving his bourgeois parents. Humor lightens the theme more than once, as when the besieged father -- after listening to a garbled harangue on Marx from his Read More

Surprise Party

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Michel Duchaussoy, Robert Hossein, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: Although written and directed by the well-known Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), this movie about life and love among a group of high schoolers on vacation in the countryside has nothing to distinguish it beyond the typical couplings and uncouplings found in other movies in the same genre. Read More

Mille Milliards de Dollars

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Caroline Cellier, Anny Duperey, Jeanne Moreau, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: A young jounalist (Patrick Dewaere) stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is Read More

Certaines Nouvelles

Actors: Micheline Presle, Gerard Lartigau, Bernadette Lafont, Roger Hanin

Les Fougeres Bleues

Actors: Françoise Fabian, Jean-Marc Bory, Gilles Segal, Caroline Cellier, Francis Perrin

Synopsis: The novelist Françoise Sagan is the director of this romance, which chronicles the interactions that take place between a married couple, and their ladies' man friend and a girl of his during a hunting trip. The playboy family friend had once had a brief liaison with the wife while her husband was Read More

Une Femme un Jour

Actors: Melane Brevan, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Henri Garcin, Gilles Bony

Synopsis: In the wake of a heart-wrenching divorce, a young mother turns to her adoring lesbian friend for comfort. They have a brief relationship, but she is unable to face her own probable lesbianism, and soon retreats to the safety of a conventional marriage. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Mariage

Actors: Rufus, Bulle Ogier, Marie Déa, Bernard Le Coq, Caroline Cellier

Synopsis: Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage, in this tragicomic French film by director Claude Lelouche, best known to U.S. filmgoers for his Oscar-winning film A Man and A Woman. Henri (Rufus) and Janne (Bulle Ogier) are first seen on their Read More

L'Emmerdeur

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: Proof of the success of French filmmaker Edouard Molinaro is the fact that several of his home-grown hits have been remade as American films. The most recent example of this is 1996's The Birdcage, a highly profitable reworking of Molinaro's La Cage aux Folles (1978). The director's 1973 comedy A Read More

Les Aveux les Plus Doux

Synopsis: This drama is based on a 1953 one-act play by Georges Amaudi. It details the confrontation between a determined young criminal and two brutal policemen who are bent on exacting a confession from him. The young criminal and his partner were caught after they attempted to rob a circus ticket booth. Read More

Que la Bête Meure

Actors: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac, Marc di Napoli

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol directs the tense psychological thriller Que la Bête Meure (This Man Must Die). When his young son is the victim of a hit-and-run car accident, writer Charles Thenier (Michel Duchaussoy) is determined to find the killer. Obsessed with avenging his son's death, he carefully records Read More

La Vie, l'Amour, la Mort

Actors: Amidou, Caroline Cellier, Janine Magnan, Catherine Samie, Marcel Bozzuffi

Synopsis: The title Life Love Death (originally La Vie, L'amour, la Mort) pretty much runs the gamut of the subject matter which normally appeals to French filmmaker Claude Lelouch. Awaiting execution for murder, Souad Amidou reflects on the events leading up to this sorry contingency. It seems that Amidou Read More