Jacques CometsFilmography

Max & Co.

Crew: Editor

Actors: Lorant Deutsch, Patrick Bouchitey, Amelie Lerma, Micheline Dax, Virginie Efira

Synopsis: Filmmakers Frédéric and Samuel Guillaume team to direct this charming tale of a 15-year-old who sets out to find his long-lost father and instead stumbles into the adventure of a lifetime. Max's father was a famous troubadour named Johnny Bigoude who disappeared shortly after his boy was born. Now Read More

Passe-passe

Crew: Editor

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Edouard Baer, Guy Marchand, Melanie Bernier, Bulle Ogier

Salamandra

Crew: Editor

Actors: Dolores Fonzi, John Cale, Daniel Fanego

Synopsis: A six year old and boy travels with a temperamental and talkative older companion to a remote valley in Patagonia where renegades from all over the world gather to live by their own rules at the foot of the majestic mountains. Alba was living with his grandmother when Inti arrived to take him on Read More

Serko

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jacques Gamblin, Marina Kim, Larissa Batourova, Nicolas Gouraid

Synopsis: His Evenk friend shot dead by the corrupt politician's thuggish supporters, an eighteen year-old Cossack saddles the recently deceased's pony-sized steed and prepares to make the 4,000 mile trip to St. Petersburg in hopes of ensuring that the czar fulfills his promise to protect the indigenous Read More

To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die

Crew: Editor

Actors: Khurched Golibekov, Dinara Droukarova, Maruf Pulodzoda

Synopsis: A young man gets the jolt of masculinity he's been looking for in a dangerous and unexpected way in this dark comedy-drama from Tajikistan. Kamal (Khurched Golibekov) is a nineteen-year-old who has been married to a beautiful girl his age for three months. However, Kamal has been unable to Read More

Sometimes in April

Crew: Editor

Actors: Idris Elba, Debra Winger, Carole Karemara, Pamela Nomvete, Michelle Rugema

Synopsis: When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in the African nation of Rwanda in April of 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history. Over the course of the next 100 days, brother would turn against brother, tearing Read More

Zulu Love Letter

Crew: Editor

France Boutique

Crew: Editor

Actors: Karin Viard, François Cluzet, Nathalie Baye, Judith Godrëche, Bernard Menez

Nearest To Heaven

Crew: Editor

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, William Hurt, Bernard Le Coq, Hélène Fillières, Patrice Chéreau

Synopsis: A middle-aged Frenchwoman is either experiencing delusions of grandeur or the full force of destiny in director Tonie Marshall's 2002 romantic drama Nearest to Heaven (Au Plus Pres Du Paradis). When single non-fiction book author Fanette (Catherine Deneuve) accidentally bumps into former Read More

Angel on the Right

Crew: Editor

Actors: Uktamoi Miyasarova, Maruf Pulodzoda, Kova Tilavpur, Mardonqul Qulbobo, Malohat Maqsumova

Synopsis: Hamro (Maruf Pulodzoda) is a thug--an irresponsible lowlife ex-con who seems to care for nothing but his own fleeting satisfaction. He lives in Moscow, but when he hears that his elderly mother, Halima (Uktamoi Miyasarova), is sick, he returns to his hometown of Asht in Tajikistan. He's not Read More

Lumumba

Crew: Editor

Actors: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Moussa Théophile Sowie, Maka Kotto

Synopsis: Patrice Lumumba was a passionate advocate for freedom in colonial Africa, and when the Belgian Congo was granted independent (and was later renamed Zaire), Lumumba was the new nation's first prime minister. However, Lumumba's dream of freedom and dignity for the people of the Congo made him a Read More

Un Derangement Considerable

Crew: Editor

Actors: Chantal Banlier, Yasmine Belmadi, Jackie Berroyer, Bernard Blancan, Jalil Lespert

Synopsis: Bernard Stora directs this coming-of-age drama about a single-minded soccer player sidetracked by love. Laurant (Jalil Lespert) lives in a crowded little abode with his mother, a pair of half-brothers, and an Arabic-speaking grandmother. Laurent's soccer-playing prowess has garnered the attention Read More

Corps Plonges

Crew: Editor

Actors: Geno Lechner, Jean-Michel Martial, Bob Meyer, Israel Horovitz, Dominic Gould

Synopsis: Raoul Peck directed this French-German-Haitian drama set in Manhattan where medical examiner Chase Dellal (Geno Lechner) isn't happy with the diminishing aspects of her life: Not only does she face political pressures to soft-pedal her testimony, her marriage to a judge (Bob Meyer) is collapsing. Read More

Flammen In Paradies

Crew: Editor

Actors: Élodie Bouchez, Laurent Grévill, Bruno Todeschini, Swetlana Schonfeld, Heinz Buehlmann

Synopsis: Swiss director Markus Imhoof made this Swiss-German-French drama in which a love story, elaborate period details of the year 1912, and an ocean liner all combine to bring Titanic to mind. However, this storyline of switched identities steers a different course. A couple on their honeymoon travel Read More

Enfants De Salaud

Crew: Editor

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

Adultere, Mode D'Emploi

Crew: Editor

Actors: Richard Berry, Karin Viard, Vincent Cassel

Synopsis: This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the results of an important architectual contest they have entered. Unable to handle the stress of waiting, both turn to sexual liason's to ease their Read More

Consentement Mutuel

Crew: Editor

Actors: Richard Berry, Anne Brochet, Adrienne Winling, Christiane Cohendy, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Marine Delterme

Synopsis: Is there such a thing as an amicable divorce? This French drama, explores the subject in depth as it examines the post marital relations between Jeanne, Romain, and their ten year old daughter Mado. Jeanne and Romain had been married ten years before they mutually agreed to call it quits. Mado Read More

Pas Très Catholique

Crew: Editor

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

L'Homme Sur Les Quais

Crew: Editor

Actors: Toto Bissainthe, Patrick Rameau, Jean-Michel Martial

Synopsis: Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, who later went on to become the nation's Minister of Culture, directed this drama that examines the violence and instability of his country's darkest days. In the early 1960s, the corrupt Francois "Baby Doc" Duvalier rose to power in Haiti, and his private army, the Read More

Le Petit Prince a Dit

Crew: Editor

Actors: Richard Berry, Anémone

Synopsis: In this affecting melodrama, a plucky ten-year old, who is the one delight her divorced parents enjoy together, is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. This news doesn't upset her particularly, and she maintains an even keel in the face of her parents' hysteria. On learning of this diagnosis Read More

La Vieille Qui Marchait Dans la Mer

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Serrault, Luc Thuillier, Geraldine Danon

Synopsis: Originally Vielle qui Marchait dans la Mer, this elegiac French comedy is also known as The Old Lady Who Wades in the Sea. Based on a novel by San-Antonio (Frederic Dard), the film stars Jeanne Moreau as an ageing beauty, living with her travelling companion (and ex-lover) Michel Serrault in Read More

Jalousie

Crew: Editor

Actors: Lio, Christian Vadim, Odette Laure, Veronique Delbourg

Synopsis: Pierre (Christian Vadim) is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille (Lio), an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to her with her oh-so submissive Read More

Izkor: Slaves of Memory

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: The maker of this documentary wishes to make the case that the current system of liberal education in Israel focuses on remembrance of the Holocaust to such a great extent that ordinary education is greatly impeded. He is himself a product of that educational system. He draws chiefly upon the Read More

Zanzibar

Crew: Editor

Actors: Fabienne Babe, André Marcon, Francis Girod, Dominique Maurin

Synopsis: In this "inside look" at French filmmaking, Marechal (Francis Girod) - who is a has-been director - a producer, Vito Catene (Andre Marcon) and Camile Dor (Fabienne Babe), a big-name actress, have agreed to make a film about drugs, but don't have a story, financing, or any of the other elements Read More

Vent de Panique

Crew: Editor

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

La Femme Secrète

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jacques Bonnaffé, Clémentine Célarié, Philippe Noiret, Vladimir Yordanoff, François Berléand

Synopsis: In this crime story, Antoine (Jacques Bonnafe) is suddenly called home from the North Sea where he works on an oil rig; his wife's body has been found in the Seine. Not accepting the hypothesis that this was an accident or a suicide, Antoine starts to look into his wife's friends and acquaintances Read More

La Garce

Crew: Editor

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

Le Jeune Marie

Crew: Editor

Actors: Richard Berry, Brigitte Fossey, Zoe Chauveau, Richard Anconina, Daniel Russo

Synopsis: In this comic and perceptive story, Billy mistakes another apartment for his own on the eve of his wedding and wanders in to meet a woman who immediately mesmerizes him, causing all sorts of problems in what used to be an uncomplicated life. After Billy (Richard Berry) and his bride-to-be Nina (Zoe Chauveau Read More

La Cote d'Amour

Crew: Editor

Actors: Danièle Delorme, Mario Adorf, Geneviève Fontanel, Jean-Pierre Moulin

Synopsis: Helle Waver (Daniele Delorme) works in a department store in Nantes, and while she is on vacation at a seacoast resort, she meets a kindred spirit in Louis Zannella (Mario Adorf), who is also in the retail business -- he sells bathroom fixtures and furnishings. Both Helle and Louis are divorced Read More

Nestor Burma, Detective de Choc

Crew: Editor

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jane Birkin, Guy Marchand, Alain Bashung, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Based on a mystery novel by Leo Malet, lead character Detective Burma (comic Michel Serrault) has luxurious office digs - shared with his oddball cat - but he himself is neither as sophisticated or as quick-witted as Malet's literary creation. Director Jean-Luc Miesch (29 years old), has missed Read More

Il Faut Tuer Birgitt Haas

Crew: Editor

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Lisa Kreuzer, Bernard Le Coq, Michel Beaune

Synopsis: Birgitt Haas (Lisa Kreuzer) has become the target of the German Secret Service -- she is a German terrorist and the Secret Service would like her eliminated. To that end, they request some help from their French equivalent, represented by Athanase (Philippe Noiret). His plan is to enlist the Read More