Elisabeth TavernierFilmography

Could This Be Love?

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Bonnaire, François Berléand, Kad Merad, Liane Foly

Synopsis: When wealthy and divorced tech company president Lucas becomes hopelessly smitten by the beautiful artist he has hired to paint a fresco for his enormous office building, he hires a private detective to discover why such a lovely and talented woman is still single. While Roland is a seasoned Read More

The Moustache

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Cylia Malki

Synopsis: "What would you think if I shaved my moustache?" asks Marc (Vincent Lindon) of his wife, Agnès (Emmanuelle Devos), one fateful night as they prepare to visit friends for dinner. She's never seen him without it, but while she goes to do some last-minute shopping, he impulsively shaves the moustache Read More

Red Lights

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard, Charline Paul, Jean-Pierre Gros

Synopsis: A couple's marital woes lead to a terrifying ordeal in director Cédric Kahn's Red Lights. Co-written by Gilles Marchand (Who Killed Bambi?) and Kahn's frequent writing partner Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Red Lights is based on a novel by Georges Simenon. In the film, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Read More

La Confiance Regne

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Cécile De France, Eric Berger, Anne Brochet, Jacques Boudet

Jet Lag

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Jean Reno, Sergi López

Synopsis: Two of the biggest stars of the French cinema bring their contrasting styles together in this lively romantic comedy. Rose (Juliette Binoche) is an emotional makeup artist who is hoping to get out of a bad relationship with her boyfriend, Sergio (Sergi Lopez), by leaving him in Paris and heading Read More

Merci Pour le Chocolat

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Rodolphe Pauly, Michel Robin

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol directed this well-crafted thriller, which recalls the style and themes of his best-known work of the 1960s. Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller (Isabelle Huppert), who has inherited control of a large and successful Swiss chocolate company, remarries well-known musician André Polonski (Jacques Dutronc Read More

La Bûche

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Claude Rich, Françoise Fabian, Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Béart, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: Noted French screenwriter Daniele Thompson makes her directorial debut with this lighthearted romantic comedy. After the December 21st funeral of Yvette's (Francoise Fabian) second husband, she is consoled by the three daughters from her first marriage to Stanislas (Claude Rich), a Russian-Jewish Read More

Woman on Top

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Murilo Benicio, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Mark Feuerstein, John deLancie

Synopsis: Love, sex, and food combine in this sensuous romantic comedy. Isabella (Penelope Cruz) is a master chef who suffers from severe motion sickness, requiring her to be in control of her movements at all times. This need extends to the bedroom, but her husband Tonino (Murilo Benicio), who owns the Read More

Le Vent de la Nuit

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Duval, Xavier Beauvois, Jacques Lasalle

Synopsis: French superstar Catherine Deneuve stars in this downbeat drama about the fine line between love and need. Deneuve plays Hélène, an attractive but aging housewife who keeps a lover, a young artist named Paul (Xavier Beauvois). Hélène is strongly attracted to Paul, but isn't sure if he's interested Read More

Alice et Martin

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Alexis Loret, Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Maguelon

Synopsis: In this romantic French drama, auteur Andre Techine offers an intense, intimate look inside the complex relationship between two emotionally dysfunctional people. Neither Alice (Juliette Binoche) nor Martin (Alexis Loret) seem emotionally healthy enough to sustain a relationship, but somehow they Read More

Place Vendôme

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jacques Dutronc, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Nicole Garcia directed this French suspense thriller set in the posh Paris square of Place Vendôme, where the jewelers district includes the firm run by Vincent Malivert (Bernard Fresson) with his brother, Eric (François Berléand). Although Vincent has a top reputation in the field, his British Read More

Dry Cleaning

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar, Mathilde Seigner

Synopsis: This French-Spanish drama depicts a flat marriage that picks up a few new wrinkles. Nicole (Miou-Miou) and Jean-Marie Kunstler (Charles Berling) have run their small-town dry-cleaning shop for 15 years. When they visit a local night club, they see the brother-sister act of Loic (Stanislas Merhar) Read More

Genealogies of a Crime

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: Raul Ruiz directed this typically eccentric look at the nature of crime, the human mind, and life in the modern world. Solange (Catherine Deneuve) is a defense attorney with a reputation for taking on cases that can't be won -- and proving it by losing them. Her latest lost cause is Rene (Melvil Poupaud Read More

Les Voleurs

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve, Laurence Côte, Benoît Magimel, Julien Riviere, Fabienne Babe

Synopsis: André Téchiné's complex and ambitious crime drama starts with a prologue in which a little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by two strangers bringing home his father's body. The story of the deceased, Ivan (Didier Bezace), and his involvement with car thieves unfolds in flashbacks as Read More

Wild Reeds

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Élodie Bouchez, Gael Morel, Stephane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny, Michèle Moretti

Synopsis: This is a nostalgic French coming-of-age drama from director Andre Techine set in a Provence deeply divided over the war for independence being waged against French colonialism in Algeria. In 1962, Francois (Gael Morel) and Maite (Elodie Bouchez) are best friends and students at a boarding school Read More

Dead Tired

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: A burned out actor begins to question his sanity in this French comedy that stars the writer/director Michel Blanc in a dual role. In the first role Blanc plays himself as an exhausted actor. He has been doing too much TV and too many movies. Odd things begin to happen and Blanc becomes convinced Read More

La Machine

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Didier Bourdon, Natalia Woerner, Erwan Baynaud

Synopsis: This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc Lacroix, a psychiatrist specializing in brain functions, is obsessed with the link between mind and spirit. To find his link he studies the criminally insane. He builds a Read More

The Favour, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Natasha Richardson, Michel Blanc, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: In this hectic farce, Louis Aubinard (Bob Hoskins) is at the bottom of every totem pole he's ever come near, a nebbish and unattractive man who makes a poor living as a photographer of religious tableaux. His sister doesn't respect him and deliberately cooks awful food just to makes his life more Read More

Monsieur Hire

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier, André Wilms, Eric Berenger, Philippe Dormoy, Bernard Soufflet

Synopsis: Lonely and shy bachelor Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc), suspected in the murder of a girl, secretly watches his young, attractive neighbor Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire) through the window. Once, when lightning flashes during a thunderstorm, she notices his face in the window and comes to him to find out Read More

Tatie Danielle

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tsila Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty, Eric Prat, Neige Dolsky, Laurence Fevrier

Synopsis: Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title character, who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets. Eventually, she moves in with her nephew and his vain wife. Soon, her Read More

S'en Fout la Mort

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-Claude Brialy, Solveig Dommartin

Synopsis: The two black men in this tragedy live on the fringes of French society, and come from Africa and the Caribbean. Among the things they share in common is involvement in the illegal sport of cockfighting. The film follows their exploits and daily lives among the poor of France, as they train their Read More

Life Is a Long Quiet River

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Benoît Magimel, Valerie Lalande, Catherine Hiegel, Hélène Vincent, André Wilms, Christine Pignet

Synopsis: Life is a Long Quiet River is the satirically philosophical title for this French domestic comedy. Borrowing a page from The Corsican Brothers, the film begins with a castoff mistress spitefully switching a pair of newborn babies at the maternity ward managed by her doctor lover. As a result, the Read More

Waiting for the Moon

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett, Andrew McCarthy, Bernadette Lafont, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Well into the 1930s, there was an expatriate community of Americans who lived in Paris or the French countryside, and who eventually became influential artists and writers. These included the painter Edward Hopper, the writer Ernest Hemingway, and the musician Virgil Thomson. Writer and poet Read More

Betty Blue

Crew: Costume Designer

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

Bras De Fer

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Christophe Malavoy, Ángela Molina, Mathieu Carrière, Pierre-Loup Rajot

Synopsis: Complex and more cerebral than a wartime action-thriller, this espionage drama focuses on the relationship of two former buddies who were fencing masters before the war and in love with the same woman. Now Delancourt (Bernard Giraudeau) is apparently living a good life managing a gym in a Paris Read More

La Scarlatine

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Brigitte Fossey, Stéphane Audran, Christophe Malavoy, Hito Jaulmes

Synopsis: In this French domestic comedy, a young boy lives in a Paris apartment surrounded by three generations of single women: his mother, her mother, and his great grandma, each with their own ideas on how a boy should be raised. Naturally this is quite confusing for the lad. Things get especially tense Read More

L'Addition

Crew: Costume Designer

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