Gerard LampsFilmography

The Army of Crime

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stévenin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lola Naymark

Synopsis: A daring band of rebels take on Nazi forces in Europe in this wartime drama from director Robert Guediguian. Born in Armenia, Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) had settled in France by the time World War II broke out; a socialist who stood in fierce opposition to the Axis forces occupying his Read More

Let it Rain

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze, Pascale Arbillot, Guillaume de Tonquedec

Synopsis: Many regard the satirically inclined writer-director-star Agnès Jaoui (Le Goût des Autres) as a European equivalent of Woody Allen. The cerebral comedy Let It Rain represents Jaoui's third effort in the said capacities, and finds her juggling preoccupations with gender politics and class Read More

Tell No One

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: François Cluzet, André Dussollier, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: An innocent man is on the run after he's accused of murder and his spouse seemingly returns from the grave in this thriller from France. Alex Beck (François Cluzet) is a doctor who has slowly been putting his life back together after his wife Margot was murdered by a serial killer. Eight years on Read More

OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefebvre, Constantin Alexandrov

Synopsis: OSS 117: Cairo -- Nest of Spies constitutes the eighth installment in a long-running series of movies about OSS 117 (the government code name for Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath) -- a French super-spy and European equivalent of James Bond. The creation of author Jean Bruce, OSS eventually starred in Read More

The Fox & the Child

Crew: Sound Mixer

Actors: Bertille Noel-Bruneau, Isabelle Carré

Synopsis: A young girl discovers the wonderful world of nature after taking her tentative first steps into the lush forest surrounding her family home in this cinematic fable that marks the first narrative feature film from the production team behind the Academy Award-winning documentary March of the Penguins Read More

The Valet

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry

Synopsis: French farce master Francis Veber (The Dinner Game) combines slapstick laughs with rapid-fire dialogue as he tells the tale of a Parisian valet unwittingly drawn into the affairs of a wealthy industrialist. François Pignon (Gad Elmaleh) is a simple valet employed by a posh Paris restaurant. Read More

Second Wind

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Monica Bellucci, Michel Blanc, Jacques Dutronc, Eric Cantona

Synopsis: Adapted from the same José Giovanni story that spawned Jean-Pierre Melville's classic 1966 film of the same name, director/screenwriter Alain Corneau's nail-biting thriller stars Daniel Auteuil as iconic French gangster Gustav "Gu" Minda and Monica Bellucci as the smoldering Manouche -- whose love Read More

The Price to Pay

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Christian Clavier, Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin, Géraldine Pailhas, Patrick Chesnais

Hunting and Gathering

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker, Françoise Bertin, Firmine Richard

Synopsis: Acclaimed director Claude Berri (Jean de Florette) helms the whimsical romantic comedy Ensemble, c'est tout (Hunting and Gathering, 2007). A box office blockbuster in France, the picture follows the romantic couplings that form in the lives of several lonely Parisian singles. The lead characters Read More

Lemming

Crew: Sound Mixer

Actors: Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, André Dussollier, Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis: The charmed life of a successful young engineer is thrown into chaos following a decidedly uncomfortable dinner with his powerful boss and the man's socially scabrous wife in With a Friend Like Harry director Dominik Moll's twisted, semi-supernatural thriller. Upon relocating to an ultra-modern Read More

Le Grand Meaulnes

Crew: Sound Mixer

March of the Penguins

Crew: Sound Mixer

Synopsis: While many people think of penguins as comical birds who look like they've been decked out in tuxedos, the truth is they're among the strongest and most resilient creatures in the animal kingdom. And they have to be -- each year, the emperor penguins of Antarctica travel through the most punishing Read More

Genesis

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Synopsis: The cycle of life of a handful of different animals is captured on film in a whole new way in this documentary. Using special motion-control photography equipment, Genesis allows filmgoers to view animal behaviors which are too small, too slow, or too difficult to normally be seen with the naked Read More

Look at Me

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Marilou Berry, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Laurent Grévill, Virginie Desarnauts

Synopsis: A talented woman struggles to get out from under the shadow of her father in this comedy. Lolita (Marilou Berry) is the 20-year-old daughter of Étienne Cassard (Jean-Pierre Bacri), a wealthy and well-known editor and writer, and most of the people she meets seem to be more interested in her dad Read More

Grey Souls

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, Denis Podalydès, Marina Hands, Michel Vuillermoz

Synopsis: A series of tragedies befalls a small French town near the front during World War I in Yves Angelo's Grey Souls. As the film opens, the body of a young girl, Morning Beauty (Joséphine Japy) is found on the banks of the river, an apparent murder victim. We then flash back several months. Lysia (Marina Hands Read More

The Last Mitterrand

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert, Philippe Fretun, Anne Cantineau, Sarah Grappin

Stupeur et Tremblements

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Taro Suwa, Bison Katayama, Yasunari Kondo

Synopsis: French director Alain Corneau delves into the painfully irrational world of office politics, which are further complicated by a severe case of culture clash in his 2003 comedy, Stupeur et Tremblements (Fear and Trembling). Based on the similarly titled memoirs of author Amélie Nothomb and her Read More

Immortel Ad Vitam

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Thomas Kretschmann, Linda Hardy, Frederic Pierrot, Thomas M. Pollard

Synopsis: The year is 2095 and the ancient Egyptian gods have returned to Earth to cast judgment on the falcon-headed god Horus in this epic fantasy from comic-book creator Enki Bilal. Given only one week by the gods to preserve his immortality, Horus must search New York City and find both a human host Read More

Holy Lola

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Carré, Lara Guirao, Bruno Putzulu, Frederic Pierrot

Inguelezi

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Marie Payen, Eric Caravaca, Francoise Lebrun, Mar Sodupe, Sophie Barjac

Agents Secrets

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, André Dussollier, Charles Berling, Bruno Todeschini

The Housekeeper

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Émilie Dequenne, Brigitte Catillon, Jacques Frantz, Axelle Abbadie

Synopsis: One of France's most respected filmmakers, Claude Berri here brings viewers the story of Jacques (Jean-Pierre Bacri) a middle-aged sound engineer whose wife has just left him. Living on his own for the first time in years, Jacques decides it's high time to clean up his life, literally and Read More

Bienvenue Chez Les Rozes

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Carole Bouquet, André Wilms, Jean Dujardin, Lorant Deutsch, Clémence Poésy

Synopsis: Francis Palluau's directorial debut Bienvenue Chez les Rozes (Welcome to the Rozes) is a comedy about a hostage situation. Gilbert (Lorant Deutsch) and MG (Jean Dujardin) escape from prison and end up hiding out at the home of Daniel and Beatrice Roze (André Wilms and Carole Bouquet), who are Read More

Mon Idole

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: François Berléand, Guillaume Canet, Diane Kruger, Philippe Lefebvre, Clotilde Courau

Synopsis: Actor Guillaume Canet, best known to American audiences for his work in The Beach, makes his directorial debut with the dark comedy, Mon idole. Canet also stars in the film as Bastien, an ambitious young man working as an assistant to Philippe Letzger (Philippe Lefebvre, who co-wrote the script Read More

Safe Conduct

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Christian Berkel, Marie Gillain, Charlotte Kady

Synopsis: During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate; some filmmakers and technicians simply went along with what their new leaders demanded in hopes keeping themselves and their families safe, while others sought to subvert the messages of Read More

Broceliande

Crew: Sound Mixer

Actors: Elsa Kikoine, Cylia Malki, Alice Taglioni

Synopsis: When an archeology student unearths some ancient Celtic stones in a mysterious forest, she comes face to face with the malevolent supernatural presence behind a spate of recent deaths at her nearby university. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sur le Bout des Doigts

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Marina Hands, Anne-Sophie Latour, Martine Chevalier, Thierry Hancisse, Pierre Charras

Synopsis: Yves Angelo's Sur Le Bout Des Digts (On the Tips of Her Fingers) is a drama about a piano playing daughter and mother. Juliette (Marina Hands) has devoted her entire life into making her teenage daughter Julie (Anne-Sophie Latour) a concert pianist. Julie is exceedingly talented, but her love of Read More

Winged Migration

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: While practically everyone is aware of the fact that birds fly south for the winter, and return home in the spring, few are aware of just how arduous the journey can be. Jacques Perrin, a noted actor and film producer in his native France, decided to document this process, using flocks of birds Read More

Marie-Line

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Muriel Robin, Fejria Deliba, Valerie Stroh, Yan Epstein, Aïssa Maïga

Synopsis: A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for Read More

Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Michel Serrault, Frédéric Diefenthal, Julie Christie, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: The story of a vengeful ghost (which spawned both a popular silent thriller and a mid-'60s TV miniseries that drew record ratings in France) returns to the big screen in this adaptation of the story by Arthur Bernede. A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the Read More

La Chambre des Officiers

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Eric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Derangère, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier

Synopsis: A man who thinks he's found an easy ride through the Army during World War I has his world turned upside down when facial injuries render him unrecognizable in this wartime drama. In the summer of 1914, Adrien Fournier (Eric Caravaca) is an engineer conscripted into the French Army, where he is Read More

Venus Beauty Institute

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffé, Mathilde Seigner

Synopsis: A visually stylish comedy with dramatic overtones from director Tonie Marshall, Vénus Beauté (Institut) looks at the lives of three women who work at a small but successful beauty salon. Angele Nathalie Baye is an attractive woman just edging into middle age who is looking for companionship Read More

The Bridge

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Gérard Depardieu, Charles Berling, Stanislas Crevillen, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed (with Frederic Auburtin) this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man, which stars Depardieu and Carole Bouquet. Mina (Bouquet) is a movie buff with a husband, Georges (Depardieu), who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy (Stanislas Crevillen Read More

It All Starts Today

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi, Nadia Kaci, Veronique Ataly, Nathalie Becue

Synopsis: Ça commence aujourd'hui, a social drama, is Bertrand Tavernier's first major film since winning a César (the Oscar of France) in 1996 for his epic Capitaine Conan. Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once Read More

Le Prince Du Pacifique

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Patrick Timsit, Marie Trintignant, François Berléand

Synopsis: A stuffy French military man is transformed into a legendary Polynesian warrior in this light comic adventure tale. Capt. Alfred de Morsac (Thierry Lhermitte) is a French naval officer who, after distinguishing himself in battle against the enemy in Morocco, is sent to Tahiti in 1914, where his Read More

Scenes De Crimes

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Charles Berling, André Dussollier, Eva Darlan, Camille Japy

Synopsis: As the title would suggest, this film, directed by Frederic Schoendoerffer, is a noirish crime drama about two forensic cops on the trail of serial murderer. Georges Fabian (Charles Berling) and Jean-Louis Gomez (Andre Dussollier) are put on the case when Marie -- the teenaged daughter of a couple Read More

À l'attaque!

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Frederique Bonnal, Jacques Boudet

La Debandade

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Claude Berri, Fanny Ardant, Claude Brasseur, Alain Chabat, Danièle Lebrun

Synopsis: This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann (Claude Berri, who is also the director) a middle-aged auctioneer who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform Read More

C'est quoi la vie

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Eric Caravaca, Jacques Dufilho, Isabelle Renauld, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Licinio Da Silva, Elie Tazartes

Synopsis: In this drama, three generations of the same family work together on a farm in rural France. Elderly Noel (Jacques Dufilho) takes pride in having worked this land nearly all his life. His son Marc (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) now carries most of the responsibilities of the farm (as well as the debts) Read More

Un Soir Après La Guerre

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Chea Lyda Chan, Narith Roeun, Ratha Keo, Sra N'Gath Kheav, Mol Solvanna

Synopsis: Rithy Panh directed this neo-realist French-Cambodian social drama set amid Southeast Asian poverty. In the early '90s, soldiers return to civilian life in Phnom Penh. Living with his uncle, kickboxer Savannah (Narith Roeun) begins a romance with 19-year-old bar girl Srey Poeuv (Chea Lyda Chan) Read More

Voleur De Vie

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Sandrine Bonnaire, André Dussollier, Vahina Giocante, Eric Ruf

Synopsis: Yves Angelo directed this slow-paced French drama adapted from the novel by Steinunn Sigurdardottir about two sisters -- high school literature instructor Alda (Emmanuelle Beart) and her older sister Olga (Sandrine Bonnaire). On an island, the sisters and Olga's 17-year-old daughter Sigga (Vahina Giocante Read More

Dieu Seul Me Voit (Versailles - Chantiers)

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Denis Podalydès, Jeanne Balibar, Isabelle Candelier, Cecile Bouillot, Jean-Noel Broute

Synopsis: In this 122-minute sequel to the 47-minute Versilles -- Rive Gauche (1991), the brothers Bruno and Denis Podalydes provide the central installment of their trilogy of films named after different Versailles train stations. Awkward Albert (Denis Podlydes), a balding nerdy sort, is a soundman working Read More

Mossane

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Synopsis: In this Sengalese melodrama, a beautiful village girl finds herself torn between tradition and modern values. Mossane is only 14 but is considered by the villagers to be an extraordinary beauty. Even her brother is sick with love for her, something her family cures by binding the two naked in a Read More

Nadia et les hippopotames

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Marilyne Canto, Thierry Frémont, Philippe Fretin, Najd Hamou-Medja

Synopsis: The third feature of former documentarist Dominique Cabrera, who is known for his 1997 feature L'autre coté de la mer, this film exposes the oppressive and stifling aspect of society. Single mother Nadia is surviving on welfare while transport strikes are paralyzing France in December 1995. While Read More

Michael Kael Contre La World News Company

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Benoit Delepine, Marine Delterme, Victoria Principal, Mickey Rooney, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: Christophe Smith made his directorial debut with this media satire, set on December 14, 1999, about a TV news network in cahoots with Washington on Operation Crazy Guru -- a plan to get a U.S. president re-elected for a third term. Griffith (Mickey Rooney), head of the Miami-based international Read More

Le Cousin

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Alain Chabat, Patrick Timsit, Samuel Le Bihan, Caroline Proust, Marie Trintignant

Synopsis: Alain Corneau directed this French drama about detectives and informants. After a cop's suicide, detective Gerard (comedian Alain Chabat) acquires his late partner's informant (i.e. "cousin"), Nounours (comedian Patrick Timset), a drug-dealing family man. Ironically, Nounours has a happy family Read More

Marquise

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Timsit, Thierry Lhermitte

Synopsis: A glorious dancer and a beautiful actress, Marquise (originally known as mademoiselle Du Parc) won the hearts of some of mid-17th-century France's brightest lights, including Moliere, the actor Racine and even the Sun King himself, Louis XIV. Beginning with considerable comedy and ending with Read More

Lucie Aubrac

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Roger Milo, Patrice Chéreau

Synopsis: During the French Resistance, Lucie, a courageous wife, struggles to save her husband, Raymond Samuel, from a firing squad. He was arrested after blowing up a train during the war. Lucie is also a freedom fighter who goes by the moniker of Aubrac. She helps free Raymond by directly threatening a Read More

Enfants De Salaud

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Anémone, Nathalie Baye, François Cluzet, Molly Ringwald, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: In a Brussels courthouse, notoriously brutal killer Julius Mandenne stands trial for dismembering a woman and cryptically painting the letter "s" on a wall with her tongue. Attending the gruesome trial are his four illegitimate off-spring, none of whom knew the other existed. With grim Gallic Read More

Capitaine Conan

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Philippe Torreton, Catherine Rich

Synopsis: Bertrand Tavernier directed this hard-hitting anti-war drama. In November of 1918, just as World War I had come to a close, Capt. Conan (Phillippe Torreton) and his men await new assignments in Bucharest. Conan regards himself as a warrior, not a soldier: while a soldier will fight in a war, it Read More

A Couch In New York

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: William Hurt, Juliette Binoche, Paul Guilfoyle, Stephanie Buttle, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: This is a romantic comedy with an analytical edge from noted Belgian director Chantal Akerman. Set in New York, the fun begins when freewheeling French dancer Beatrice and stodgy psychoanalyst Henry Harriston agree to exchange apartments. He will live in her bohemian Paris flat and she in his Read More

Le Plus Beau Métier du Monde

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Michèle Laroque, Souad Amidou, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: A genteel teacher finds himself out of his element when his request to be assigned to a Parisian school lands him in an impoverished, multi-cultural ghetto suburb outside of Paris. There Laurent Monier (Gerard Depardieu) finds himself forced to live in a project apartment and teach classes full of Read More

Au Petit Marguery

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Michel Aumont, Marie Bunel

Synopsis: For 30 years the title eatery has delighted its customers with good family style French cooking, but as with many good things, its time has come and it must close. This semi-autobiographical French drama, adapted from screenwriter/director Laurent Benegui's novel, chronicles the final meal served Read More

Fresh Bait

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Richard Berry, Philippe Duclos

Synopsis: This drama examines three amoral young people living in Paris. 18-year-old Nathalie (Marie Gillain) works in a clothing store and dreams of opening her own boutique in the United States. She shares an apartment with her boyfriend Eric (Olivier Sitruk) and his slow-witted pal Bruno (Bruno Putzulu); Read More

Pas Très Catholique

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Anémone, Roland Bertin, Grégoire Colin, Michel Didym, Denis Podalydès

Synopsis: A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her Read More

Le Sourire

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Richard Bohringer, Emmanuelle Seigner, Chantal Banlier, Nadia Barentin

Synopsis: The unbearable vanity of the human male facing death is one of the subtler themes of this French drama which tells the story of a dying man who finally finds and desires to conquer the perfect sex object. Poor Le Clainche is about ready to keel over from a heart attack. He's already had one and Read More

Les Faussaires

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Marc Barr, Claude Piéplu, Viktor Lazlo, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: This comedy was shot in Tahiti. It focuses on the rocky relationship between Cohn, a local con man, and author Jack Baker who wants to profile Paul Gauguin in an upcoming book. Cohn, an obnoxious crook and pathological liar originally from Paris, has been the bane of the local population for Read More

La Machine

Crew: Sound/Sound 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 Professional

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello, Peter Appel, Michael Badalucco

Synopsis: As visually stylish as it is graphically violent, this thriller directed by Luc Besson concerns Mathilda (Natalie Portman), a 12-year-old girl living in New York City who has been exposed to the sordid side of life from an early age: her family lives in a slum and her abusive father works for drug Read More

Revenge of the Musketeers

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Raoul Billerey, Nils Tavernier

Synopsis: A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise (Sophie Marceau) is the daughter of the famed swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret); while she has a remarkable gift with a blade herself, Eloise is devoting herself to her Read More

Justinien Trouve, Ou Le Batard De Dieu

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Pierre-Olivier Mornas, Ticky Holgado, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Patrice Valota, Roland Blanche

Synopsis: If this engaging costume adventure is perhaps just one notch shy of being a full-fledged swashbuckler, it is only because it so lovingly recreates the era in which its story takes place. In the film, it is 1685 and a baby is being left on the steps of a monastery, but not before the mysterious Read More

The Accompanist

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Yelena Safonova, Romane Bohringer, Samuel Labarthe

Synopsis: Romane Bohringer plays a young pianist ekeing out a living in Nazi-occupied Paris. When her favorite coworker, singer (Yelena Safonova), relocates to London, Bohringer goes along, much to the discomfort of Safonova's possessive husband-manager. The latter role is played by Romane Bohringer's Read More

La Chasse Aux Papillons

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Narda Blanchet, Pierrette Pompom Bailhache, Alexandre Tcherkassoff, Thamar Tarassachvili, Emmanuel de Chauvigny

Synopsis: Otar Iosseliani's comedy of manners is about eccentric old ladies and the equally eccentric guests who visit the ladies' mansion in a Parisian suburb. Though the picture's surrealistic touch, deliberately unhurried pace, and attention to detail are reminiscent of the later works of Luis Buñuel Read More

Sexes Faibles!

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: François Cluzet, Valérie Lemercier, André Wilms, Michel Aumont, Marc Berman

Synopsis: One would think that Maud could divorce her completely unamorous husband: in ten years of marriage, they have never once had sex. In this comedy, based on Tom Sharpe's novel Blott on the Landscape, Maud's husband is the mayor of the town they live in, and she is the hereditary owner of an ancient Read More

Un Coeur Qui Bat

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Dominique Faysse, Thierry Fortineau, Jean-Marie Winling, Steve Kalfa, Christophe Pichon, Daniel Laloux

Synopsis: In this somewhat unusual romance, the two lovers go to bed with one another first (almost before the films opening credits are done) and then spend the rest of the film getting to know one another, while they carry on with their passionate affair. Malo is married to a very pleasant man, an antique Read More

Simple Mortel

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Philippe Volter, Christophe Bourseiller, Nathalie Roussel, Roland Giraud

Synopsis: Stéphane is a linguist whose work in obscure and ancient languages has permitted him to become the only person who knows one of the languages. When all sorts of electronic equipment begin serving as conduits for messages in that very language, messages which are instructing him personally, to Read More

Une Epoque Formidable

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Ticky Holgado, Chick Ortega

Synopsis: Like the factory boss in The Full Monty, Berthier (Gérard Jugnot) is a former executive who finds it easier to pretend to his family that he wasn't fired than to suffer their concern and pity, and possibly the loss of their love. He goes off to "work" each day and returns home with presents for Read More

Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Firmine Richard, Pierre Vernier, Maxime Leroux, Gilles Privat, Muriel Combeau

Synopsis: This easygoing French comedy -- originally and more wittily titled Romuald et Juliette -- is about conservative Parisian yogurt-company CEO named Romuald Blindet (Daniel Auteuil) who by circumstance finds himself drawing closer to his black cleaning woman Juliette Bonaventure (Firmine Richard). A Read More

Printemps Perdu

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Ru Ping

Synopsis: Chinese opera, whether of the Peking variety or not, is a very demanding art-form, requiring decades of study to be even partly mastered. In this film, Yan Yuejun was a Soochow Opera performer who fell afoul of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, and who has served his time undergoing compulsory Read More

The Music Box

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Lukas Haas

Synopsis: Jessica Lange plays an attorney whose affable Hungarian-immigrant father Armin Mueller-Stahl is arrested. He is threatened with deportation for lying about his activities during World War II; part of the charge is that Mueller-Stahl was a Nazi collaborationist, guilty of wartime atrocities. Read More

To Kill a Priest

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joanne Whalley, Joss Ackland, David Suchet

Synopsis: One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint French-American production based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the democracy and labor movement known as Read More

The Little Thief

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Simon de la Brosse, Didier Bezace, Raoul Billerey, Chantal Banlier

Synopsis: From time to time a deceased novelist or artist is sufficiently revered that, as a form of homage, his disciples will take one of his unfinished projects and attempt to bring it to completion. The screenplay for La Petite voleuse was written by Claude Miller, Luc Beraud and Anne Miller based on a Read More

Corentin, Ou Les Infortunes Conjugales

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Roland Giraud, Muriel Brener, Andréa Ferréol, Patrick Chesnais, Olivia Brunaux

Synopsis: When Corentin (Roland Giraud) marries a young woman, he is unable to consummate the marriage in this costumed comedy. He is threatened under church law with seizure of his property and annulment of the marriage unless he can consummate before the eyes of a prying public tribunal. The film is based Read More

Australia

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Tchéky Karyo, Agnes Soral, Hélène Surgère

Synopsis: Widower Edouard Pierson (Jeremy Irons) fought for Australia in World War Two, but he was born (and married) in Belgium. For the past twelve years, he has been living in Australia with his daughter. His occupation as a wool merchant is in keeping with his family's tradition. He is determined to Read More

The Big Blue

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Shenar, Griffin Dunne, Sergio Castellitto

Synopsis: Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy adventure. Jacques (Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo (Jean Reno) are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the Read More

Sweet Lies

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Treat Williams, Joanna Pacula, Julianne Phillips, Laura Manszky, Norbert Weisser

Synopsis: In this comedy, an American insurance investigator goes to Paris to prove that a crippled client's claim is utterly bogus. While there, the detective finds himself seduced by a pair of beautiful women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

À Gauche En Sortant De L'Ascenseur

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Pierre Richard, Richard Bohringer, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Cottençon, Pierre Vernier

Synopsis: Yann (Pierre Richard) has his artistic eye on Florence (Fanny Cottencon), who desires her for more than her aesthetic beauty. His efforts are continually hampered by his neighbors Boris (Richard Bohringer), an insanely jealous layabout and his beautiful wife Eva (Emmanuelle Beart). Michel Creton Read More

Blanc De Chine

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Robin Renucci, Marguerite Tran, Michel Piccoli, Denys Hawthorne

Synopsis: Mathieu (Robin Renucci) is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris in this routine thriller. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody slaughterfest, the key to the mystery lies with the orphan girl (Marguerite Tran) who Mathieu helped to Read More

Les Keufs

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Isaach de Bankolé, Ticky Holgado, Jean-Marie Marion, Patrick Olivier, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: Mireille (Joisane Balasko) is a female cop who leads a crusade against the neighborhood pimp in this comedy drama. She falls for the black detective who is sent to investigate charges of corruption. Their relationship is adversarial before it becomes congenial. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

A Man in Love

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Riegert, Claudia Cardinale, John Berry

Synopsis: A married American actor (Peter Coyote) falls in love with his on-screen flame (Greta Scacchi) while filming an Italian biography of author Cesare Pavese. France's 1987 entry to the Cannes Film Festival, this was the first English-language film for director Diane Kurys. ~ John Bush, All Movie Read More

Buisson Ardent

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jessica Forde, Jean-Claude Adelin, Alice de Poncheville, Simon de la Brosse, Anne Brochet

Synopsis: Julie (Jessica Forde) and her childhood sweetheart Jean (Jean-Claude Adelin) are separated in this uneven but prize-winning romantic drama. When Jean is shipped off to live with his aristocratic father, Julie later becomes engaged to Henri (Simon de la Brosse), a young man from her own social Read More

Le Jupon Rouge

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Alida Valli, Guillemette Grobon, Julien Negulesco

Synopsis: A lesbian love triangle leads to heartache in this erotic emotional drama. Bacha (Alida Valli) is a concentration-camp survivor and human rights advocate who is jealous when her lover Manuela (Marie-Christina Barrault) becomes involved with Bacha's protégé Claude (Guillemette Grobon). ~ Dan Read More

Vent de Panique

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

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

Les Oreilles Entre les Dents

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jeanne Marine, Laurent Gamelon, Fabrice Luchini, Féodor Atkine

Synopsis: In order to cover up the multiple murders they have committed, a gang of killers tries to convince police that a serial killer is on the loose. Victims are found with their ears lopped off and stuffed in their mouths. Criminal psychologist Jean-Paul Blido (Jean-Luc Bideau) is summoned by the Read More

L'Effrontée

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy, Clothilde Baudon, Raoul Billerey

Synopsis: The dreams and naivete of Charlotte, a young, working-class girl (Charlotte Gainsbourg in an award-winning performance) clash with reality as she meets the young pianist she admires (Clothilde Baudon), and a younger pest she would like to shed (Julie Glenn). Charlotte is surrounded by a drab life Read More

La Garce

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Richard Berry, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Jean Benguigui

Finye

Crew: Editor

Actors: Balla Moussa Keita, Ismaila Sarr

Synopsis: Bah (Fousseyni Sissoko) is the son of an African tribal chieftain and his girlfriend Batrou (Goundo Guisse) is the daughter of a military governor ruling over the region where the students live and attend the university. Both students are committed to political activism, and take shared stances Read More