Claude VillandFilmography

Occupation:: Sound/Sound Designer

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Boudu

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Frot, Gérard Jugnot, Constance Dolle, Bonnafet Tarbouriech

2005
Lundi Matin

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jacques Bidou, Arrigo Mozzo, Anne Kravz-Tamavsky, Narda Blanchet, Dato Tarielashvili

Synopsis: Vincent (Jacques Bidou, producer of Raoul Peck's Lumumba and several other films, making his acting debut) lives in a little French town, filled with eccentrics, and he follows the same routine, day in and day out. Up at five a.m. every morning, he takes the car to the bus to work, where he and Read More

2002
Au Coeur du Mensonge

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Antoine de Caunes, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: This thriller from veteran director Claude Chabrol is a tense suspense drama, leavened with sly humor, about the fallout from a shocking crime in a small town. Frederique Lesage (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), the new chief of police in a cozy and fashionable seaside community in Brittany, soon finds Read More

1999
Ça Reste Entre Nous

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Catherine Frot, Sam Karmann, Carol Brenner, Fanny Cottençon, Antoine Dulery

Synopsis: Martin Lamotte made his directorial debut with this French comedy. Building contractor Patrick (Sam Karmann) is unaware that Helene (Catherine Frot), his wife for 15 years, intends to celebrate their wedding anniversary with a surprise party. She's invited friends and relatives to spend the Read More

5/6/98
Les Couloirs Du Temps - Les Visiteurs II

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Muriel Robin, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Bujeau

Synopsis: At $23 million, this sequel cost three times as much as the earlier Les Visiteurs (1993), France's second largest postwar success (with 13.6 million tickets sold). The follow-up features a voiceover summary of the first film while pages flip in an illuminated book. In the 1993 film, a magic potion Read More

2/11/98
The Swindle

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer, Jackie Berroyer

Synopsis: The 50th film from legendary French New Wave writer and director Claude Chabrol is a typically Hitchcockian comic thriller about a pair of con artists. Up to now, the duo of Betty (Isabelle Huppert) and Victor (Michel Serrault) have contented themselves to small scams at hotel conventions, such as Read More

10/15/97
Les Soeurs Soleil

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Marie-Anne Chazel, Thierry Lhermitte, Clémentine Célarié

Synopsis: This gently satirical French comedy centers on the resulting brouhaha that erupts when the preadolescent daughter of a very conservative bourgeoisie couple gets the chance to appear in a raucous music video starring a raunchy, aging female rocker. When pipe-puffing patriarch and solid citizen Read More

4/2/97
Les Couleurs du Diable

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Ruggero Raimondi, Wadeck Stanczak, Isabelle Pasco, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: In this provocative, suspenseful drama, a penniless aspiring painter receives an offer he cannot refuse and ultimately finds himself making a devil's bargain. Essentially a variation on "Faust," the tale is set in Rome and begins at an art show. Like the other artists, Nicolas Morgan hopes that Read More

1/22/97
Ma Femme Me Quitte

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Miou-Miou, Thierry Lhermitte, Line Renaud

Synopsis: Misunderstandings create romantic mayhem in this French comedy. Joanna Martin is an investigative television reporter who has lived happily with prominent lawyer Samuel Bosquier for over 15 years. The trouble begins when her station assigns Joanna to investigate the phony marriage/immigration Read More

1996
Delphine 1 - Yvan O

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Julie Gayet, Serge Hazanavicius, Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia

Synopsis: Done as a parody of reality television shows such as MTV's Real World, this faux docudrama from France also pokes fun at the foibles of modern day monogamy as it spends a year in the life of one young Parisian couple. Delphine works as a proofreader in a publishing house, her live-in lover Yvan Read More

1996
A French Woman

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Gabriel Barylli, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: One woman's conflicting emotions and the whims of fate prevent her from being faithful to the man she loves in this drama. In 1939, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart) marries Louis (Daniel Auteuil) shortly before he is called to duty during World War II. Jeanne does not deal well with loneliness, and she Read More

1995
La Cérémonie

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen

Synopsis: When Catherine Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset) hires mousy and taciturn Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) as a housemaid, she thinks that she found a treasure. Mr. Lelievre (Jean-Pierre Cassel) seems to agree with her, pointing out that the maid just has yet to learn how to serve dinner correctly. Wealthy Read More

1995
À la Folie

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Béatrice Dalle, Patrick Aurignac, Bernard Verley, Alain Chabat

Synopsis: A menage-a-trois between rival sisters and a boyfriend provide the dramatic focus of this French film. The sisters Alice and Elsa have been apart for two years. Alice, a painter, lives in Paris with her lover Franc. Problems for the happy couple ensue when Elsa suddenly appears at their door after Read More

1994
L'Irresolu

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Barbara Schulz, Thiam, Béatrice Agenin

Synopsis: The sexploits of a nerd are chronicled in this French film. Francois is a thirty-five year old playwright working on his autobiographical play "The Indecisive Guy". He is not a terribly interesting man, but he does manage to have a series of great sexual liaisons with a variety of experienced and Read More

1994
La Petite Apocalypse

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jirí Menzel, André Dussollier, Pierre Arditi, Anna Romantowska

Synopsis: In this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished "underground" writer from formerly Communist Poland is driven to unusually desperate measures in order to get his work published. Stan (Jiri Menzel) has been living in the attic apartment of his ex-wife's home, which he shares with a Read More

1993
Delit Mineur

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

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

1993
Betrayed

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, Betsy Blair, John Mahoney

Synopsis: Set in Iowa, Betrayed stars Debra Winger as an FBI agent who infiltrates a Klanlike white supremacist organization. Allegedly a woman of intelligence and perception, Winger throws caution and logic to the winds when she falls in love with local farmer Tom Berenger. Much to her surprise Berenger Read More

8/26/88
Saxo

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Akosua Busia, Richard Brooks, Laure Killing, Clement Harari

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Gilbert Tanugi, who co-wrote the screenplay, this noirish French drama is set within the Paris music scene and centers on the attempts of a dangerously indebted record producer to scrounge up a fortune to pay back the vengeful loan shark who is trying to destroy him. Producer Read More

1988
Sans Peur et Sans Reproche

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Victoria Abril, Remi Martin, Gérard Darmon, Martin Lamotte, Gerard Klein, Ann-Gisele Glass, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: Bayard (Remi Martin) is a lowly squire who joins the army of King Charles (Patrick Timsit) after he is rejected by the noblewoman Blanche de Savoie (Anne-Gisel Glass). Bellabre (Gerard Jugnot) is the army captain who trains Bayard for the proposed invasion of Naples. Bayard returns a conquering Read More

1988
L'Enfance De L'Art

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Clotilde de Bayser, Michel Bompoil, Anne-Marie Philipe, André Dussollier, Yves Lambrecht, Marie-Armelle de Guy

Synopsis: This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with drama students at the Paris Conservatory, making a film (the inner story) about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert. Wallowing in maudlin sentimentality, this feature Read More

1988
La Couleur Du Vent

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Elizabeth Bourgine, Philippe Léotard, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Bisson

Synopsis: Louise (Elizabeth Bourgine) is a young woman working at a publishing house who develops an unusual affection for submitted manuscript. She breaks up with Serge (Philippe Leotard), the printer who loves her. Louise tells the heartbroken Serge she has fallen in love with the author whom she has Read More

1988
Man on Fire

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Scott Glenn, Jade Malle, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Joe Pesci, Paul Shenar

Synopsis: An agent newly retired from the CIA (Scott Glenn) agrees to become an Italian businessman's bodyguard in this adventure film. Things fall apart though, when terrorists kidnap the Italian's daughter and the agent must rescue her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

10/9/87
Au Revoir Les Enfants

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud

Synopsis: Gaspard Manesse plays Julien, an 11-year-old Catholic boarding-school resident during the Nazi occupation of France. He is witness to the courage of his instructors, who defy the German's anti-Semitic policies and quietly enroll Jewish children into the school under assumed names. Manesse Read More

10/7/87
Opera do Malandro

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Edson Celulari, Claudia Ohana, Elba Ramalho, Ney Latorraca, Fabio Sabag

Synopsis: Malandro is a Brazilian musical set in the Rio of the 1940s. Likeable prostitute Fabio Sabag is fired from her nightclub job. Fabio's pimp Edson Celulari vows vengeance upon the girl's odious ex-boss. Celulari sets about to seduce the club owner's daughter Claudia Ohana, but she proves to be no Read More

1/30/87
En Toute Innocence

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Michel Serrault, Nathalie Baye, Francois Dunoyer, Suzanne Flon, André Valardy, Philippe Caroit

Synopsis: When Catherine (Nathalie Baye) is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul (Michel Serrault), the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas (Francois Dunoyer) about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's Read More

1987
Comedie!

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jane Birkin, Alain Souchon

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, two lovers go on vacation to the fellow's summer home in southern France. Once there, the woman becomes quite jealous because she knows that many women have been at this house with him. She herself is not as experienced as he and secretly dreams of having many different Read More

1987
Spirale

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Richard Berry, Claire Nebout, Jean Bouise, Tchéky Karyo, Beatrice Camurat

Synopsis: Jerome (Richard Berry) is the manager of a photography lab who gets involved with the mysterious Simorre (Claire Nebout) in this suspenseful drama. Invited to her yacht in the South of France, Jerome meets the strange entourage that always accompanies Simorre. The trio consists of a former Read More

1987
Il Est Génial Papy!

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Guy Bedos, Marie Laforêt, Valerie Rojan, Isabelle Mergault

Synopsis: A retired musician inherits the care of his ten-year-old runaway grandson in this uneven comedy. Sebastian (Guy Bedos) hires a baby-sitter for his grandson when he gets a gig playing violin in a strip club. The boy tries to set his grandfather up with the sexy sitter. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Read More

1987
Les Mois d'Avril Sont Meurtriers

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Pierre Bisson, François Berléand, Brigitte Roüan

Synopsis: Fred (Jean-Pierre Marielle) follows hired killer Gravier (Jean-Pierre Bisson) in this routine crime drama. He knows Gravier is responsible for a gangland murder but must shadow the killer to provide solid evidence of the crime. The two engage in a psychological game of cat-and-mouse before the Read More

1986
Le Paltoquet

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Moreau, Daniel Auteuil, Richard Bohringer, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Léotard, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: With ingenious camera work, witty dialogue, and a setting that almost never wanders from the cavernous interior of a mod cafe-bar, this drama by Michel Deville has a lot of pluses. A woman (Jeanne Moreau) and a man (Michel Piccoli, the "nonentity" of the title) jointly run the vast cafe and every Read More

1986
Erendira

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michel Lonsdale, Rufus

Synopsis: This tantalizing blend of eroticism and mysticism was adapted from a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Erendira (Claudia Ohana) has a strange and wondrous vision; shortly afterward, her grandmother's house burns down. The grandmother (Irene Papas) gets her revenge by forcing Erendira to become a Read More

1983
Le Quart d'Heure Américain

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Anémone, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Brigitte Catillon, Michel Dussarat

Synopsis: The physical imperfections of Bonnie (Anemone), a woman trying to work her way up the ladder at a radio station, do not stop her from going after Ferdinand (Gerard Jugnot), a reticent, bald, and mild fellow who at first resists Bonnie's overtures, but then slowly seems to change his mind. At Read More

1982
I Sent a Letter to My Love

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Simone Signoret, Jean Rochefort, Delphine Seyrig, Geneviève Fontanel, Dominique Labourier

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Bernice Rubens, I Sent a Letter to My Love stars Simone Signoret as a woman who has reached middle age without truly learning how to live. Responsible for the constant care of her paraplegic brother Jean Rochefort, Signoret seeks a brief respite from her confinement by Read More

1981