Dominique BesnehardFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Associate Producer, Casting, Co-producer

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Days of Darkness

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Marc Labreche, Diane Kruger, Sylvie Léonard, Caroline Neron, Rufus Wainwright

Synopsis: A civil servant gradually regresses into a fantasy world while falling for a beautiful movie star (Diane Kruger) in director Denys Arcand's (The Barbarian Invasions) dark comedy. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

6/17/09
Musée Haut, Musée Bas

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Michel Blanc, Simon Abkarian, Victoria Abril, Pierre Arditi, Alfredo Arias, John P. Arnold, Sophie Artur, Helene Babu, Josiane Balasko

Synopsis: With this high-concept, all-star French comedy (it features at least sixteen Gallic marquee names including Michel Blanc and Josiane Balasko), director Jean-Michel Ribes sets out to skewer the pretentiousness of the European art world. It's just a typical, ordinary day at a French art museum, but Read More

11/19/08
My Stars

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Kad Merad, Rufus, Melanie Bernier, Maria de Madeiros

Synopsis: A movie fan finds a way to make himself a presence in the lives of his favorite actresses in this comedy from French writer-director Laetitia Colombani. Robert Lepage (Kad Merad) is a janitor who is part of the cleaning crew at the offices of the biggest talent agency in Paris. Ordinarily, this Read More

10/29/08
Podium

Actors: Benoît Poelvoorde, Julie Depardieu, Marie Guillard, Anne Marivin, Odile Vuillemin

2004
Laisse Tes Mains sur Mes Hanches

Actors: Chantal Lauby, Jean-Pierre Martins, Rossy de Palma, Claude Perron, Alain Chabat

Synopsis: A woman on her own finds herself taking a second chance at love, with hilarious results, in the comedy from France. Odile Rousselet (Chantal Lauby) is a well-regarded if not exactly famous actress whose ongoing midlife crisis kicks into high gear when her teenage daughter, Marie (Armelle Deutsch) Read More

2003
Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Based on the original '60s French comic books by René Goscinny, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre is the big-budget sequel to the 1999 box-office hit Astérix and Obélix vs. Caesar. Empress Cleopatra (Monica Bellucci) makes a wager with Julius Caesar (played by writer/director Alain Chabat) that Read More

1/30/02
Les Filles, Personne S'en Méfie

Actors: Thylda Bares, Nora Rotman, Agnes Soral, Roland Bertin, Georges Corraface

Synopsis: Charlotte Silvera's Girls Can Get Away With Anything is about a young girl who acted in a film. Eight-year-old Judith (Thylda Bares) was plucked from everyday life to act in a film that was made in Paris. After returning home from the experience, she finds that her parents' marriage is on the Read More

2002
Le Prof

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Yvan Attal, Dominique Besnehard, Hélène de Fougerolles

Synopsis: Two teachers find themselves at odds in this drama from France. Hippolyte (Yvan Attal) and Alexandre (Jean-Hugues Anglade) have been friends since childhood; now they're both instructors and assistant principals at the same high school. They're both dedicated to making education exciting and fun Read More

2000
Beaumarchais L'Insolent

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain

Synopsis: This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The story begins in the 1770s with a rehearsal of his "The Barber of Seville." Young friend of Voltaire, Philipp Gudin introduces himself to the great Read More

1996
Little Indian, Big City

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Patrick Timsit, Ludwig Briand, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A jungle boy comes to Paris in this French adventure that while primarily aimed towards children, will be equally enjoyable to adult audiences. The film opens with Steph, an international trader, winging to Venezuela to formally divorce his estranged wife Patricia who left him thirteen years ago Read More

1994
Mensonge

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Didier Sandre, Hélène Lapiower, Marc Citti, Dominique Besnehard

Synopsis: Emma (Nathalie Baye) has been happily married to Charles (Didier Sandre), a hardworking journalist, for over ten years. They have a son, and are considering having another child when she learns that she is both pregnant and HIV-positive at a time when Charles is away. As Emma has never used drugs Read More

1993
Rien Que des Mensonges

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Alain Bashung, Jacques Perrin, Christine Pascal, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Alexandra Kazan

Synopsis: Reviewers declared that the main attraction of this romantic drama was the chance to see the ever-elegant Fanny Ardent in action as a well-to-do woman who wants to put her life in better order. Muriel (Ardent) is married to a philandering publisher, who quite openly entertains mistresses. Read More

1991
La Vie Dissolue de Gerard Floque

Actors: Roland Giraud, Marie-Anne Chazel, Jacqueline Maillan, Clémentine Célarié, Gérard Rinaldi

Synopsis: Advertising executive Gerard Floque (Roland Giraud) has the worst day of his life in this routine comedy. He comes home after losing his job to find his daughter arrested on drug charges and his wife Cecile (Clementine Celaire) in bed with a famous television personality (Gerard Rinaldi). Gerard Read More

1987
L'Été En Pente Douce

Actors: Pauline Lafont, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jacques Villeret, Guy Marchand, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane (Jean-Pierre Bacri) returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas (Pauline Lafont). He must care for his idiot brother Mo (Jacques Villeret) and contend with a greedy garage owner (Guy Marchand) who Read More

1987
Betty Blue

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon, Consuelo de Havilland, Clémentine Célarié

Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue stars Béatrice Dalle as the title character, a mentally unbalanced and sexually aggressive free spirit who becomes involved with Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade), a repairman moonlighting as a writer. The two engage in a variety of sexual encounters, and grow more Read More

11/7/86
The Name of the Rose

Crew: Casting

Actors: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater, Michel Lonsdale, Elya Baskin, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., William Hickey, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William Read More

9/24/86
Paulette

Actors: Luis Rego, Catherine Leprince, Gerard Desarthe, Charles Schmitt

Synopsis: With embarrassing dialogue and a theatrical style, this feature-length comedy is based on cartoon characters and is equally two-dimensional. After some misguided attempts at mixing with the riff-raff, the young rich heiress Paulette (Jeanne Marine) decides to start giving her money away to anyone Read More

1986
La Nuit Porte Jarretelles

Actors: Ariel Genet, Caroline Loeb, Eva Ionesco

Synopsis: This debut directorial effort by French actress Virginie Thevenet is a routine erotic tour through Parisien night spots and the infamous Bois du Bologne with its drag queens. A worldy-wise young woman latches onto her opposite, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or crook Read More

1985
Les Cavaliers de l'Orage

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Gerard Klein, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Wadeck Stanczak, Pinkas Braun

Synopsis: Marie (Marlene Jobert) is a pretty female physician who attracts the strong romantic interest of two brothers during World War I in this uninspired drama by Gérard Vergez. The brothers meet her when she is on duty in Turkey -- one brother is stationed there and the other becomes her ambulance Read More

1984
L'Addition

Actors: Richard Berry, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Farid Chopel, Fabrice Eberhard

Synopsis: This technically impressive throwback to the early days of film noir stars Richard Berry as Bruno, a young actor who seems to get blamed for everything. Spotting a gorgeous female shoplifter (Victoria Abril) in trouble, Bruno decides to help her and gets arrested in her place. While lamenting his Read More

1984
À Nos Amours

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Dominique Besnehard, Evelyne Ker, Anne-Sophie Maillé

Synopsis: Director, co-writer, and star Maurice Pialat brought his typically unblinking New Wave style and interest in socially aberrant behavior to this psychological drama, winner of two Cesars (the French equivalent of the Oscar) for Best Film and Most Promising Young Actress (Sondrine Bonnaire). Read More

1983
Un Etrange Voyage

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Camille de Casabianca, Arlette Bonnard, Dominique Besnehard

Synopsis: A father-daughter relationship is melded, strained, and deepened by a shared angst: the grandmother in the family left her home by train and never arrived at her destination. The father Pierre (Jean Rochefort) is distraught that the police could basically dismiss the issue as inexplicable, and he Read More

1981