Dominique LavanantFilmography

Les Bronzes 3: Friends Forever

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot

Synopsis: Six of France's greatest screen comedians reunite in this long-awaited sequel to the classic box-office hits Les Bronzes and Les Bronzes Font du Ski. Skirt-chasing Popeye (Thierry Lhermitte) has settled down and married beautiful Graziella (Ornella Muti), and together they run an upscale resort Read More

Désiré

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Fanny Ardant, Béatrice Dalle, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Based on a play by Sacha Guitry this romantic French comedy of manners sparkles and bubbles like freshly uncorked champagne. Set in Paris before the dawn of the Jazz Age and centers on the exploits of sexy, womanizing butler Désiré after he begins working for former actress and current mistress of Read More

The Monster

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Michel Blanc, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: Grossly mistaken identity provides the impetus in this Italian farce. Loris is an anti-social fellow with a high sex drive. During a party he is pointed towards an "easy mark." Unfortunately he approaches the wrong woman. When he discovers his mistakes, he nervously apologizes for the attempted Read More

L'Ombre du Doute

Actors: Mireille Perrier, Alain Bashung, Sandrine Blancke, Emmanuelle Riva, Josiane Balasko, Luis Issermann

Synopsis: Eleven-year old Alexandrine (Sandrine Blancke) may be making something more out of what is happening in her family than is really there, but she appears to be afraid to be touched by her father (Alain Bashung), and gets really edgy when her mother (a nurse) has to work late. When one of her Read More

Les Amies de Ma Femme

Actors: Christine Boisson, Catherine Arditi, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: In this somewhat broad comedy, guaranteed to offend (at a minimum) feminists and homosexuals, Albert has always dreaded visits by his beloved wife's five highly dysfunctional girlfriends, who are forever complaining about the absence of any real men for them to date or marry. When he loses his Read More

La Fracture du Myocarde

Actors: Sylvain Copans, Nicolas Parodi, Cecilia Rouaud, Delphine Gouttman, Lucie Blossier

Synopsis: When the mother of 12-year-old Martin suddenly dies, his schoolmates rally 'round to keep the authorities from finding out lest they send the fatherless youth to the dreaded local orphanage. This off-beat French drama, chronicles their efforts that begin with a midnight burial of the poor woman's Read More

Quelques Jours Avec Moi

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Vincent Lindon

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's A Few Days With Me (Quelque Jours avec Moi) stars Daniel Auteuil as the emotionally disturbed heir to a supermarket empire. Auteuil's mother Danielle Darrieux tries to give her son some purpose in life by assigning him the task of reinvigorating one of the supermarket chain's least Read More

Un Jeu D'Enfant

Actors: Dominique Lavanant, Laura Morante, Jean Carmet

Je Hais les Acteurs

Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: This adaptation of Ben Hecht's novel is a satire that unfolds as a mystery story. A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty Read More

Rendez-Vous

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Lambert Wilson, Wadeck Stanczak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Juliette Binoche teams with Lambert Wilson in this erotic drama. Binoche plays Nina, the young lady friend of timid Paulot (Wadeck Stanczak). Though she intends to be true to Paulot, Nina falls hard for his roommate, Quentin (Wilson), a thoroughly self-centered actor who performs in live sex Read More

Agent Trouble

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Catherine Deneuve, Tom Novembre, Pierre Arditi, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: Amanda Weber (Catherine Deneuve) is a museum employee who seeks to discover how and why her nephew (Tom Novembre) was murdered in this dull thriller. She knows her nephew was witness to a government project in which a busload of tourists were killed by a mysterious poisonous gas. Alex (Richard Bohringer Read More

L'Oeil Au Beurre Noir

Actors: Julie Jezequel, Smain, Pascal Légitimus, Martin Lamotte, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: Racism and the games people play with it aren't unique to the U.S. by any means. In this French comedy, Rachid, a nice-looking Arab boy, plays with the pervasive fear of non-whites in Paris by having two friends approach pretty girls while looking as sinister as they can, so that he can "rescue" Read More

Soigne Ta Droite

Actors: Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Villeret, Les Rita Mitsouko, François Perier, Jane Birkin, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard wrote, directed, and starred in this offbeat comedy. He appears as a bumbling cinematographer who drops film cannisters as he rushes to a screening, and he and others board a plane helmed by a pilot who is reading a self-help book about suicide. A philosophical narration Read More

Paroles Et Musique

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lambert, Richard Anconina, Jacques Perrin, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: This routine French melodrama features Catherine Deneuve) as Margaux, an unhappily married recording-company executive with two children at home who starts an affair with Jeremy (Christophe Lambert), one of the singers she promotes through her company. Margaux's husband is away in New York working Read More

Three Men and a Cradle

Actors: Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: A trio of inept bachelors receives an unexpected lesson in the challenges of fatherhood when a young infant turns up on their doorstep in this popular, appealing French comedy. The child was unknowingly fathered by one of the roommates, but the mother, who had relationships with each man, leaves Read More

Les Freres Petard

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, Michel Galabru, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, Manu (Gerard Lanvin) and Momo (Jacques Villeret) are two men who are at first unwittingly involved in a drug deal, but then get quite wittingly involved when they realize that there may be some money to be had in the sale of illegal substances. Once they decide to launch into Read More

Mort un Dimanche De Pluie

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Cerise Leclerc

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Joan Aiken, this is a routine story of a psycho looking for revenge. "Cappy" Bronsky (Jean-Pierre Bisson) is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand (Jean-Pierre Bacri). Many years after the accident Read More

Kamikaze

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Dominique Lavanant, Michel Galabru, Riton Liebman, Kim Massee

Synopsis: A short and strange storyline emboldens this thriller with sci-fi overtones by Didier Grousset. Albert (Michel Galabru) is an electronics genius who gets the ax from his company and then goes over the edge. At first he packs off to his attic, turns on the television, and opts for vegetating. But Read More

Le Debutant

Actors: Francis Perrin, Christiane Jean, Julien Guiomar, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: In this semi-autobiographical comedy by Francis Perrin, he plays a character partially based on himself in the guise of Francois Veber, a lowly electrician from the provinces who finds success as an actor in the Comedie-Francaise. Veber/Perrin goes to study acting at the Paris Conservatoire and Read More

Billy Ze Kick

Actors: Francis Perrin, Zabou, Dominique Lavanant, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: "Billy ze Kick" is the nickname of a character in a bedtime story, told by a French police inspector to his little daughter. For the purposes of the plot (it can't possibly be in the interests of proper child psychology), Billy is a make-believe serial killer! Shortly afterwards, three young girls Read More

Les Nanas

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Dominique Lavanant, Macha Meril, Anémone, Clémentine Célarié, Odette Laure, Catherine Samie

Synopsis: This suavely-fashioned film with an all-female cast focuses primarily on three women and the man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman (Marie-France Pisier) with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It Read More

Le Mariage Du Siècle

Actors: Anémone, Thierry Lhermitte, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Aumont, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: Weak in script and plot, this comedy about the differences (or not) between royalty and the commoners that toil for a living has little to recommend it. Princess Charlotte (Anemone) is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) has taken a bet that he Read More

Le Leopard

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Dominique Lavanant, Marius Weyers, Max Megy, Nini Crepon

Synopsis: In this French drama, a Secret Service agent becomes a novelist after he is forced to retire. He writes about experiences he had as a spy in his novel. Adventure ensues when he and his editor, also a writer, whom the ex-spy regards as too stuffy for his own good, wind up in Africa where they must Read More

La Smala

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Josiane Balasko, Dominique Lavanant, Maurice Risch

Synopsis: In a satire on family values that tends to pass off human cruelty as amusing, this story about an odd family of five children, a father, grandmother, and neighbor is not particularly laugh-provoking. When the mother of this "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure Read More

Papy Fait de la Resistance

Actors: Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Gérard Jugnot, Martin Lamotte, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: In this uneven take-off on some reluctant resistance fighters in World War II, a family of musicians find themselves the unwilling hosts of a segment of the German High Command when their Paris mansion is taken over by the occupying forces. What happens next is a series of individual skits, cameo Read More

Debout les Crabes, la Mer Monte!

Actors: Martin Lamotte, Veronique Genest, Virginie Thévenet, Richard Bohringer, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: The action in this attempt at farce and drama starts moving when a prostitute just out of prison overwhelms a young man with her charms in their shared train compartment and ends up getting invited to his home. Once there, other than inducing some unusual behavior in the members of the family, she Read More

Attention, Une Femme Peut En Cacher une Autre

Actors: Miou-Miou, Roger Hanin, Eddy Mitchell, Charlotte de Turckheim, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: The French My Other Husband (Attention! Une Femme Peut en Cacher une Autre) would eventually suffer the indignity of an American TV-movie remake, which will go unnamed here to protect the guilty. The original film is a sprightly vehicle for the delectable Miou-Miou. Thanks to her resourcefulness Read More

Entre Nous

Actors: Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Guy Marchand, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: French filmmaker Diane Kurys directs the period drama Coup de Foudre (distributed in the U.S. as Entre Nous), adapted from a book she co-wrote with Olivier Cohen. The semi-autobiographical story is based on the life of the director's mother. Lena (Isabelle Huppert) is a Jewish refugee from Belgium Read More

Y'a-t-il Un Francais Dans la Salle

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Marion Peterson, Jacques Dutronc, Dominique Lavanant, Jacqueline Maillan

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Frederic Dard who also co-scripted with director Jean-Pierre Mocky, this satire on French politics is centered around an official whose earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any Read More

Hotel des Amériques

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot, Josiane Balasko, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: The beautiful Helene (Catherine Deneuve) works in a hospital as an anesthesiologist and so when she accidentally hits Gilles (Patrick Dewaere) while driving her car, she can jump out and know exactly what to do to make sure he is not seriously hurt. The two start off a relationship based on this Read More

Les Hommes Preferent les Grosses

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Ariane Larteguy, Luis Rego, Dominique Lavanant, Daniel Auteuil

Synopsis: This comedy features large French woman, Balasko, who, when dumped by her fiance, moves in with a silly model. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

La Boum

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau, Denise Grey, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: La Boum stars Sophie Marceau as a 13-year-old French girl, coping with domestic problems. Her parents, played by Claude Brasseur and Brigitte Fossey, are on the verge of a marital breakup. This is coupled by a traumatic move to Paris, and Marceau's problems in adjusting to her new surroundings and Read More

Pourquoi Pas Nous

Actors: Aldo Maccione, Dominique Lavanant, Maurice Biraud

Le Cheval D'Orgeuil

Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Lesache, François Cluzet, Dominique Lavanant, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: Based on a popular novel by Pierre-Jakez Helias, Horse of Pride is set in a hardscrabble peasant community in Brittany. Covering the years 1908 through 1918, the film concentrates on the lives, customs and aspirations of the community's populace. The visuals are complemented not by dialogue but by Read More

Inspecteur la Bavure

Actors: Coluche, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Lavanant, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: In one of Coluche's earlier films, the late French comedian stars in this standard comedy by Claude Zidi as the inept police inspector, Michel Clement. The senior Clement was a spectacular policeman, and Michel finds it particularly difficult to try and walk in his father's footsteps without Read More

A Little Romance

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Arthur Hill, Sally Kellerman, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard

Synopsis: The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman stepfather (Arthur Hill) and her promiscuous mother (Sally Kellerman). Mom is currently enamored with pretentious-filmmaker David Dukes, and it is on the set of Dukes' latest Read More

Cause Toujours... Tu M'interesses

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Blanc, Jacques Francois

Les Bronzés Font du Ski

Actors: Marie-Anne Chazel, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko

Courage Fuyons

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu, Robert Webber

Synopsis: Martin (Jean Rochefort) is a coward who is swept up in the revolt by French students in May, 1968 in this Gallic comedy of errors. He helps the rioters destroy his own auto as his wife and children watch the proceedings in disbelief. Martin wakes up in a student commune and sees the beautiful Eva Catherine Deneuve Read More

La Gueule de L'autre

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Andréa Parisy, Bernadette Lafont, Curd Jürgens

Synopsis: Michel Serrault plays a double role in this lighthearted comedy. An ineffectual actor is called on to portray his look-alike cousin, a prominent politician who is driven into hiding after he learns of an assassination plot. Jean Poiret plays the political consultant who recruits the uncured ham Read More

Les Bronzés

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Gérard Jugnot, Christian Clavier

Synopsis: Six vacationers from France find themselves on the sunny shores of Africa in a vacation village where organized fun is the order of the day. Spoofing such faddish getaways as "Club Med," the story focuses on the trials of a married couple who can't quite live up to their ideals of an "open" Read More

Comme La Lune

Actors: Sophie Daumier, Anna Gaylor, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Marco Perrin

Synopsis: After he leaves his wife and daughter for a butcher-shop owner, one would imagine that Roger had been as foolish as he was going to be. However, before he can marry the shopkeeper, she runs off with an old friend of his, who leaves behind his own mistress. Roger takes up with this his friend's Read More

Vous N'Aurez Pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine

Actors: Coluche, Dominique Lavanant, Jean Jacques, Michel Blanc, Martin Lamotte, Gérard Lanvin

Synopsis: In this satire, Coluche plays an inept king of France who is continually in danger of overthrow or murder by his scheming court and is kept on the throne by the efforts of his Musketeers, who also serve by wringing extra taxes out of the already hard-pressed population. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More