Michel BlancFilmography

Musée Haut, Musée Bas

Actors: Michel Blanc, Simon Abkarian, Victoria Abril, Pierre Arditi, Alfredo Arias, John P. Arnold, Sophie Artur, Helene Babu, Josiane Balasko

Synopsis: With this high-concept, all-star French comedy (it features at least sixteen Gallic marquee names including Michel Blanc and Josiane Balasko), director Jean-Michel Ribes sets out to skewer the pretentiousness of the European art world. It's just a typical, ordinary day at a French art museum, but Read More

The Witnesses

Actors: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Julie Depardieu, Johan Libereau

Synopsis: The early days of the AIDS crisis in France provides the backdrop for this powerful, life-affirming drama from writer and director André Téchiné. It's 1984, and Mehdi (Sami Bouajila) is a police detective who, unbeknownst to his wife Sarah (Emmanuelle Béart), is a bisexual who has occasional Read More

Nos 18 ans

Second Wind

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

Les Bronzes 3: Friends Forever

Crew: Screenwriter

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

Je Vous Trouve Très Beau

Actors: Michel Blanc, Medeea Marinescu, Vladimir Yordanoff, Benoit Turjman, Eva Darlan

Synopsis: Michel Blanc stars as Aymé, a grumpy recently widowed farmer, in writer/actress Isabelle Mergault's directorial debut, the romantic comedy You Are So Handsome. When Aymé's work partner and wife dies suddenly in an unfortunate accident, he quickly realizes that he needs someone around to help him Read More

Embrassez Qui Vous Voudrez

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Carole Bouquet, Michel Blanc, Karin Viard

Synopsis: A group of friends and mutual acquaintances embark on a number of vacations -- concealed or otherwise -- for relaxation and unexpected romantic hijinks in French actor/director Michel Blanc's fourth directorial effort, the romantic ensemble comedy See How They Run. While hosting a dinner party Read More

Mauvaise Passe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker, Noah Taylor, Francis Barber

Synopsis: Writer-director Michel Blanc, whose previous works include the acclaimed Marche a l'ombre (1984) and Dead Tired (1994), creates this gritty drama about a middle-aged impoverished French writer in London who becomes a gigolo. The film opens with Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) getting worked over by an Read More

Les Grands Ducs

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Catherine Jacob

Synopsis: Three old French jamons attempt to make a comeback by working in a road-show production of Scoubidou in this hilarious French farce. Also on the tour are the flighty leading actress Carla Milo, and a murderous producer, Shapiron, who knows the show is a stinker and tries to convince Read More

Dead Tired

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

The Monster

Crew: Screenwriter

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

Prêt-à-Porter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More

Toxic Affair

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Clémentine Célarié, Sergio Castellitto, Hippolyte Girardot, Michel Blanc

Synopsis: In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast around for another occupation. When her boyfriend leaves her, she becomes quite hysterical, conjuring up schemes for revenge, contemplating suicide Read More

The Favour, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish

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

Prospero's Books

Actors: John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson, Isabelle Pasco

Synopsis: Puzzle-master Peter Greenaway exposes another aspect of his peculiar obsessions to the filmgoing public. Prospero's Books uses Shakespeare as a foundation and then skips along to define its own lush territory. The books of the title are briefly referenced in The Tempest -- Prospero is a magician Read More

Merci La Vie

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together after discovering sufficient provocations in their lives to deliberately set out to wreak havoc in the world around them. Joelle (Anouk Grinberg) has just been thrown out Read More

Uranus

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Blanc, Florence Darel, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Uranus is set in a post-war French village that has been all but obliterated by the bombing. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays a middle-class family man who agrees to shelter many of those who've lost their homes. The polyglot of political beliefs held by these new tenants sows the seeds of discontent. Read More

Monsieur Hire

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

Strike It Rich

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Molly Ringwald, John Gielgud, Michel Blanc, Max Wall, Simon de la Brosse

Synopsis: Ian Bertram (Robert Lindsay) is a mathematical genius who works as an accountant for a multinational firm based in England. When he meets Cary Porter (Molly Ringwald), who recently started working for the same company, Ian immediately falls in love and quickly proposes marriage. Cary accepts, and Read More

Chambre à Part

Actors: Michel Blanc, Jacques Dutronc, Lio, Frances Barber, Catherine Frot

Une Nuit a L'Assemblee Nationale

Actors: Michel Blanc, Jacqueline Maillan, Jean Poiret, Roland Blanche, Darry Cowl, Sophie Moyse

Synopsis: Walter (Michel Blanc), the leader of a nudist colony, enlists the help of left-wing militant Henriette (Jacqueline Maillan) in this political satire. He feels he has been snubbed by the government when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor. The release of the film coincided Read More

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

Sans Peur et Sans Reproche

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Victoria Abril, Remi Martin, Gérard Darmon, Martin Lamotte, Ann-Gisele Glass, Gerard Klein, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: Bayard (Remi Martin) is a lowly squire who joins the army of King Charles (Patrick Timsit) after he is rejected by the noblewoman Blanche de Savoie (Anne-Gisel Glass). Bellabre (Gerard Jugnot) is the army captain who trains Bayard for the proposed invasion of Naples. Bayard returns a conquering Read More

Tenue de Soirée

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Caroline Sihol

Synopsis: Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier aspects of Parisian life. Gerard Depardieu plays a crude but charismatic thief, whose own gayness does not prevent his commiserating with those of the opposite sex. Miou-Miou Read More

Les Fugitifs

Actors: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Michel Blanc, Maurice Barrier

Synopsis: Francis Veber directs this hilarious comedy about Francois (Pierre Richard), a desperate, novice, bumbling bank robber who takes an ex-con hostage during his attempted hold-up. They are both chased by the police. Jean (Gerard Depardieu) plays the convicted bank robber just released from jail and Read More

Drôle de Samedi

Actors: Francis Huster, Carole Laure, Jacques Villeret, Michel Blanc

Dream One

Actors: Seth Kibel, Jason Connery, Mathilda May, Nipsey Russell, Harvey Keitel

Synopsis: The film tells the tale of the adolescent son of two wealthy socialites who have left him home alone while they go out on the town. At home, the boy begins a series of wild daydreams. He finds himself aboard an elevator that takes him through the Earth and onto another planet. There he finds the Read More

Marche a l'ombre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Michel Blanc, Sophie Duez, Beatrice Camurat

Synopsis: In this standard, light drama about two friends adjusting to change, François (Gérard Lanvin) and his side-kick Denis (Michel Blanc) come back to Paris from the Mediterranean only to find that the jobs they had been promised are illusory -- now they must survive however they can. The two go to Read More

Retenez-Moi... Ou Je Fais un Malheur!

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Michel Blanc, Charlotte de Turckheim, Laura Betti, Maurice Risch

Synopsis: In a comedy that is dead-in-the-water, a disconnected series of events serves as a framework for Jerry Lewis to put on his stock-in-trade mugging act. He plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has Read More

Circulez Y'a Rien a Voir

Actors: Jane Birkin, Michel Blanc, Jacques Villeret, Michel Robbe, Gaelle Legrand

Synopsis: This routine farce is about a lowly police inspector who falls for a sophisticated woman, unaware that she is involved in fencing stolen art. He pursues her with undying diligence until they finally get together -- but by that time they are on the wrong side of the law and in trouble. As usual 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

Le Père Noël Est une Ordure

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Anémone, Thierry Lhermitte, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier

Synopsis: Three workers in a social services office on Christmas Eve find themselves the center of a vortex of rag-tag humanity that all need their professional help, and more. Their visit from Santa Claus does not involve a trip down a chimney, but a walk-in by a somewhat derelict, irascible St. Nick Read More

Like a Turtle on Its Back

Synopsis: The pain of writer's block is examined in this drama that centers around the daily anxieties of a frustrated writer who can't. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Viens Chez Moi, J'habite Chez une Copine

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Michel Blanc, Therese Liotard, Anémone, Christine Dejoux

Synopsis: Based on a successful cabaret theater play, Come to my Place, I'm Living with my Girlfriend features Guy (Michel Blanc) as a carefree and morally challenged gas station attendant suddenly in need of a place to live. It seems his boss caught him trying to cheat his customers, and Guy was thrown out Read More

Ma Femme S'Appelle Reviens

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Blanc, Anémone, Xavier Saint-Macary, Christophe Malavoy, Pascale Rocard

Synopsis: Two single, quiet, and physically plain neighbors in an apartment building meet each other and strike up a friendship - something they both had needed for a long time. As their relationship begins to convert into a romantic pairing, the two go ahead and become lovers. Although that seemed to be Read More

Rien Ne Va Plus

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Eva Darlan, Roland Blanche, Philippe Khorsand, Tonie Marshall

Synopsis: Rien ne va plus, by director Jean-Michel Ribes, is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers Read More

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

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 Font du Ski

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

Cause Toujours... Tu M'interesses

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

L'Adolescente

Actors: Laetitia Chauveau, Simone Signoret, Jacques Weber, Edith Clever, Francis Huster

Synopsis: L'Adolescente (The Adolescent) was the second directorial stint for French film star Jeanne Moreau. This possibly autobiographical piece is set during the early war years. Laetitia Chauveau plays a twelve-year old girl whose future is determined by the events of one long summer holiday in the 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

Pierrot Mon Ami

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Ginette Garcin, Sylvie Joly, Maurice Biraud, Etienne Chicot

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

The Tenant

Actors: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors -- mostly old recluses -- eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous Read More

The Best Way to Walk

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Patrick Bouchitey, Christine Pascal, Claude Piéplu

Synopsis: Also known as The Best Way to Walk, this film was originally released in France as La Meilleure Façon de Marcher. It was the first feature-length effort of François Truffaut associate/disciple Claude Miller. Patrick Dewaere and Patrick Bouchitey head the cast as a pair of teenage summer-camp Read More

Je T'aime, Moi Non Plus

Actors: Jane Birkin, Joe Dallesandro, Hugues Quester, René Kolldehoff, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Two men are driving a refuse truck to a dump site and stop for a hamburger. Krassky (Joe Dallesandro), one of the two, strikes an acquaintance with Johnny (Jane Birkin), the girl who works in the restaurant. They swiftly become lovers. However, Krassky is basically a homosexual, and must Read More

Let Joy Reign Supreme . . .

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: The humanistic actions of Philippe D'Orleans, the cultured gentle regent to young Louis the XV in pre-revolutionary France (1719) are chronicled in this French costumer. Though the regent endeavors to keep his subjects cultured and happy to stop the peasants from rising up, he knows he has no real Read More

La Tortue Sur le Dos

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet, Véronique Silver, Marion Game, Claude Miller

Synopsis: Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer's block. He tries every remedy known to man and makes up a few new ones in this comedy. All his efforts are futile: he loses Read More