Jeanne BalibarFilmography

The Girl From Monaco

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise Bourgoin, Stéphane Audran, Gilles Cohen

Synopsis: A bodyguard hired to look after a lawyer ends up protecting the man from himself in this breezy comedy from France. Bertrand Beauvois (Fabrice Luchini) is a successful fiftysomething attorney who's hired to represent Edith Lasalle (Stéphane Audran), who has been charged with killing a man with Read More

The Duchess of Langeais

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli, Barbet Schroeder

Synopsis: Guillaume Depardieu, Jeanne Balibar, and Michel Piccoli star in director Jacques Rivette's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. The story begins as grieving French general Read More

Sagan

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Pierre Palmade, Lionel Abelanski, Jeanne Balibar, Denis Podalydès

Synopsis: Acclaimed filmmaker Diane Kurys pays homage to another French woman of the arts in this screen biography of internationally celebrated writer Francoise Sagan. As the film opens, it's 1954 and Sagan (played by Sylvie Testud), still in her teens, has become a literary celebrity overnight with the Read More

The Joy of Singing

Actors: Marina Fois, Lorant Deutsch, Jeanne Balibar, Nathalie Richard, Julien Baumgartner

Synopsis: A missing USB stick housing some volatile uranium secrets serves as the catalyst for insanity in director Ilan Duran Cohen's cartoonish, madcap caper. Eve (Evelyene Kirschenbaum) is a vocal coach who gives lessons out of her home. Constance (Jeanne Balibar), Anna (Caroline Ducey), and Julien Read More

J'aurais voulu etre un danseur

Clean

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Don McKellar

Synopsis: A woman throws herself into a last-ditch struggle to conquer her demons in this gritty drama from director Olivier Assayas. Lee Hauser (James Johnston) is a faded rock star who lives with his wife, Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung), the former host of a European music video show, in a small town in Read More

Code 46

Actors: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Jeanne Balibar, Om Puri, Essie Davis

Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, a married man investigates a counterfeiter and ends up the perpetrator of an ethical crime in Code 46, the latest film from prolific British director Michael Winterbottom. Set against the backdrop of a technologically advanced Shanghai, where people are only allowed Read More

Saltimbank

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Jean-Marc Barr, Micheline Presle, Michèle Moretti

Toutes Ces Belles Promesses

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Bulle Ogier, Eva Truffaut, Renaud Bécard, Valérie Crunchant

Synopsis: French filmmaker Jean-Paul Civeyrac directs the drama Toutes Ces Belles Promesses (All the Fine Promises), loosely based on the novel Hymnes à l'amour by Anne Wiazemsky. Jeanne Balibar stars as Marianne, a young Paris cellist mourning the recent death of her mother. When she discovers that her Read More

Marguerite, telle qu'en elle-meme

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Marguerite Duras, Jean-Luc Godard

Une Affaire Privée

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Marion Cotillard, Samuel Le Bihan, Aurore Clément, Dr. Robert Hirsch

Synopsis: A throwback detective attempts to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of a young Parisian student named Rachel in this noirish mystery from director Guillaume Nicloux. His life a smoky and meaningless haze of women and seedy investigations, private eye François Maneri (Thierry Lhermitte) Read More

17 Fois Cécile Cassard

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Romain Duris, Jeanne Balibar, Ange Ruze, Johan Odeiro-Robles

Synopsis: Directed by Christo Honore, 17 fois Cecile Cassard stars Beatrice Dalle as Cecile, who is having a terrible time getting over the accidental death of her husband, Thierry (Jerome Kircher). Hoping to find solace, Cecile drives to Toulouse and rents a room in a seamy hotel. Within days, Cecile has Read More

Le Stade de Wimbledon

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Esther Gorintin, Anna Prucnal, Ariella Reggio, Paul-Jean Franceschini

Synopsis: Directed by Mathieu Amalric, a well-respected actor who has starred in such acclaimed French exports as Olivier Assayas' Late August, Early September and Arnaud Desplechin's My Sex Life, Wimbledon Stadium is an adaptation of a novel by Italian author Daniele Del Giudice. Its narrative revolves Read More

Va Savoir

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Jacques Bonnaffé, Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles

Synopsis: A romantic comedy from acclaimed French director Jacques Rivette (La Belle Noiseuse), this film centers on three men and three women whose lives converge during the run of a play in Paris. The star of the play, Camille (Jeanne Balibar), is returning to Paris after leaving her stuffy boyfriend Read More

Avec tout mon amour

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Bruno Todeschini, Dominique Blanc, Dominique Reymond, Montserrat Salvador

Ça Ira Mieux Demain

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Danielle Darrieux, Isabelle Carré

Synopsis: A screwball comedy that covers one week in the lives of a group of Parisians, Ca Ira Mieux Demain relies on chance encounters between its characters to propel its plot. Included amongst the characters are two girls, Annie (Sophie Guillemin) and Marie (Isabelle Carre); Marie's mother Elisabeth Read More

Sade

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Grégoire Colin

Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil stars as the infamous Marquis de Sade, who at the beginning of Sade, is serving a sentence in Paris' grim Saint Lazarde prison. The year is 1794, and Sade is being persecuted for his steadfast atheism, which runs counter to the beliefs of Robespierre, France's terrifying Read More

The Comedy Of Innocence

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Nils Hugon, Charles Berling, Edith Scob

Synopsis: A woman begins to wonder if her young son is who she thinks he is in this psychological suspense story. Ariane and Pierre (Isabelle Huppert and Denis Podalydes) are the busy parents of a nine-year-old son, Camille (Nils Hugon). Camille feels neglected by his hard-working mom and dad and often Read More

Late August, Early September

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, Jeanne Balibar, Alex Descas, Arsinée Khanjian

Synopsis: Olivier Assayas directed this French drama, examining several relationships over a year's span, capturing varying textures and shades of feeling between people from late August of one year until early September of the next. Gabriel (Mathieu Amalric) and Jenny (Jeanne Balibar) separate, despite the Read More

Dieu Seul Me Voit (Versailles - Chantiers)

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

Trois Ponts sur la Rivière

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Mathieu Amalric, Thomas Badek, Andre Baptista, Sara Paz

Synopsis: Arthur (Mathieu Amalric) is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire (Jeanne Balibar). He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Having just made Read More

Mange Ta Soupe

Actors: Jean-Yves Dubois, Adriana Asti, Jeanne Balibar

Synopsis: In this comedic slice-of-life, a young man who has been away for a long time comes back home to visit his mother, an egocentric literary critic consumed by the world of books. His sister is pretty much wrapped up in herself, his father is a journalist and somewhat of a dreamer, in short, no one in Read More

J'ai Horreur De L'Amour

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Quentin Chatelain, Laurent Lucas

Synopsis: Taking a droll look at modern love, this complex, dark comedy centers on the relationships between Parisian doctor Annie Simonin and two very different male patients. Thirty-four years old and divorced, she has just been temporarily abandoned by her vacationing receptionist and doesn't quite know Read More

My Sex Life (...Or How I Got Into an Argument)

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: In this satiric comedy-drama from France, Paul (Mathieu Amalric) is an assistant professor of philosophy disenchanted with teaching and distracted enough that he can't (or won't) finish the dissertation that would allow him to become a full professor. Esther (Emmanuelle Devos) has been his Read More

La Croisade d'Anne Buridan

Actors: Judith Cahen, Joel Luecht, Serge Bozon, Fabrice Barbaro

Synopsis: This French drama is comprised of a brief feature and a short film. The tale is set in Paris' Latin Quarter on the Left Bank. Anne is a young intellectual and filmmaker in search of answers to difficult questions such as "What do you do with your desires?" and "what constitutes a political act Read More