Sylvie Testud Filmography

La Vie en Rose

Actors: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allegret, Marc Barbé, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Writer/director Olivier Dahan (Crimson Rivers II) helmed La Vie en Rose, the screen biopic of tragic French songstress Edith Piaf. Marion Cotillard portrays Piaf, the superstar once raised as a young girl by her grandmother in a Normandy bordello, then discovered on a French street corner -- as a Read More

Eat, For This is My Body

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Hans Dacosta Saint-Val, Catherine Samie, Jean Noël Pierre

Synopsis: Set in his native Haiti, director/screenwriter Michaelange Quay's sophomore feature is a poetic, taboo-shattering meditation on the flow of power between black and while centering on a pale woman (Sylvie Testud) 's bizarre relationship with numerous dark-skinned children. As a group of young black Read More

Words in Blue

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Camille Gauthier, Sergi López, Mar Sodupe, Cedric Chevalme

It's Our Life!

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Josiane Balasko, Eric Cantona, Michel Muller, Catherine Hiegel

Synopsis: Two women try to pass along what they've learned about life, love and work to a handful of kids with unexpected results in this French comedy. For years, Blanche (Josiane Balasko) and her husband ran a diner in a small village in France, with their daughter Louise (Sylvie Testud) coming aboard to Read More

The Legacy

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Stanislas Merhar, Olga Legrand, Pascal Bongard, George Babluani, Leo Gaparidze

Synopsis: A long-standing dispute between two families comes to a strange resolution in this offbeat drama. Celine (Olga Legrand) is a twenty-something woman from Paris who receives word that she has inherited an aging castle in the Georgian village of Tbilissi. Curious about the estate that's now hers Read More

Stupeur et Tremblements

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

Tomorrow We Move

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Natacha Régnier, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: Director Chantal Akerman helmed this offbeat comedy about a mother and daughter who find themselves living together again for the first time in many years. Still reeling emotionally from the recent death of her husband, Catherine (Aurore Clément) has chosen to leave her old home and move in with Read More

Filles Uniques

Actors: Sandrine Kiberlain, Sylvie Testud, François Berléand, Roschdy Zem, Vincent Lindon

Synopsis: French filmmaker Pierre Jolivet directs the offbeat comedy Filles Uniques (Sole Sisters). Upper-class attorney Carole (Sandrine Kiberlain) meets working-class Tina (Sylvie Testud), who has been arrested twice for shoplifting expensive shoes. The two women start up an unlikely friendship after Tina Read More

Dedales

Actors: Lambert Wilson, Sylvie Testud, Frédéric Diefenthal, Michel Duchaussoy, Edouard Montoute

Synopsis: The psychological thriller Dedales (Labyrinth), written and directed by René Manzor, concerns a psychiatrist treating a serial killer. Frederic Diefenthal portrays a police investigator with ESP who eventually plays a part in arresting Claude (Sylvie Testud), an unhinged woman who allows random Read More

Dead Man's Memories

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Miguel Guilherme, Klaus Pohl, Ana Bustorff, Rita Blanco

Synopsis: Markus Heltschel writes and directs the whodunit Der Glässerne Blick (Dead Man's Memories), a co-production of Austria and Germany. Prolific French actress Sylvie Testud stars as Alice, a music student from Vienna who travels around Lisbon. Portuguese actor Miguel Guilherme plays the detective Read More

The Château

Actors: Paul Rudd, Sylvie Testud, Didier Flamand

Synopsis: Two siblings with practically nothing in common are brought together by a real estate deal that threatens to leave them even more at odds than they were before in this semi-improvised comedy. Graham (Paul Rudd) and Rex (Romany Malco) are about as different as two brothers can get -- Graham is Read More

A Loving Father

Synopsis: A father and his estranged son hit the road under less than ideal circumstances in Jacob Berger's 2002 film A Loving Father. Famed novelist Leo Shepherd (Gérard Depardieu) has just been notified, via his daughter Virginia (Sylvie Testud), that he is to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Read More

Jedermann's Fest

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Juliette Greco, Sylvie Testud, Redbad Klynstra, Alexa Sommer

Synopsis: Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale. Originated in parts of England, the myth of Jan Jedermann ("John Everyman") deals with a rich Read More

Les Femmes... ou les Enfants d'Abord...

Actors: Sergi López, Marilyne Canto, Sylvie Testud, Sacha Bourdo, Jean-Jacques Vanier

Synopsis: French filmmaker Manuel Poirier directs the comedy drama Femmes... ou les Enfants d'Abord... (Women or Children First). Middle-aged Tom (Sergi Lopez) lives in Brittany with his wife, Sylvie (Marilyne Canto), and their children. He leads a very tedious existence that may be headed toward a mid-life Read More

Un Moment De Bonheur

Actors: Isild Le Besco, Malik Zidi, Vincent Bonnafous, Catherine Davenier, Olivier Gourmet

La Captive

Actors: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovere, Françoise Bertin

Synopsis: Inspired by Proust's short story La Prisonniere, renowned filmmaker Chantel Akerman creates this challenging meditation on love, desire, and obsession. The film opens with grainy Super-8 footage showing Ariane (Sylvie Testud) and her female friends rollicking on a beach. Now Ariane lives in third Read More

Murderous Maids

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Isabelle Renauld, Dominique Labourier, Jean-Gabriel Nordmann

Synopsis: Based on the same infamous murders that inspired Jean Genet's play The Maids, and the earlier film Sister My Sister, this French drama explores the difficult family life, professional pressures, and forbidden bond that in 1933 led sisters Christine and Lea Papin to murder the mother and daughter Read More

In Heaven

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Xaver Hutter, Merab Ninidze

Synopsis: In Heaven concentrates on the sensitive period between childhood and adulthood. The plot revolves around three friends with personal ambitions who must face the less pleasant aspects of reality. The story is told from the point of view of 17-year-old Csiwi, a loner who spends his evenings driving Read More

Karnaval

Actors: Amar Be Abdallah, Sylvie Testud, Clovis Cornillac, Martine Godart, Jean-Paul Rouve

Synopsis: Karnaval is set against a backdrop of intolerance and hostility in the gloomy Northern French city of Dunkirk. The story is set during carnival time, when the citizens let themselves loose for six weeks of partying, carousing and having a good time. The film centers on Larbi (Ben Abdallah), an Read More

La Chambre Obscure

Actors: Jackie Berroyer, Mathieu Demy, Caroline Ducey, Melvil Poupaud, Hugues Quester

Synopsis: Caroline Ducey, who previously gained fame by bearing it all in the 1999 dour erotic drama Romance, stars in this drama set in the 14th century. Alienor (Ducey) is provincial lass who puts her skill with herbal cures to use by healing the festering boil on the king's leg. He rewards her with Read More

Puenktchen und Anton

Actors: Elea Geissler, Max Felder, Juliane Köhler, August Zirner, Meret Becker

Synopsis: This German family film was based on a book by Erich Kaestner, whose work was previously adapted for the screen in the films Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap. Ten-year-old Annaluise (Elea Geissler), nicknamed "Puenktchen," is best friends with Anton (Max Felder) despite the difference Read More

Beyond Silence

Synopsis: A young woman struggles with her unusual relationship with her mother and father in this drama from Germany. Laura (Tatjana Trieb) is a bright young girl whose parents, Martin (Howie Seago) and Kai (Emmanuelle Laborit), are deaf and dumb. Living in a small town in Germany, where International Sign Read More

Flammen In Paradies

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

Maries Lied

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Bastian Trost, Martin Feifel, Veronica Quilligan, Jean-François Perrier

Synopsis: This drama is set in 19th century Prussia and looks at the life and dreams of a teenage girl. The year is 1813 and 16-year old Marie is not leading a happy life. She is regularly beaten by her governess and ignored by her mother. Her mother's friend, a merchant, comes to call with his shy nephew Read More

Eternelles

Actors: Julien Cottereau, Sylvie Testud, Christian Barbier