René Féret
Biography: René Féret (26 May 1945 – 28 April 2015) was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. His film Solemn Communion, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. In The Man Who Wasn't There (L'Homme qui n'était pas là), his 1987 film adaption of Roderick MacLeish's novel, he played alongside Claude Jade in the leading role of Charles Elaine. Very much an independent creator, Féret made several films around an invented family living in northern France, the Gravets, but based on his own life experience. He often used members of his own family in his films. Féret also turned to marginal individuals, in trouble: a man sent to a psychiatric hospital in Histoire de Paul (1975), a hermaphrodite in Mystère Alexina, old age in Rue du Retrait (2000) and cancer sufferers in Comme une étoile dans la nuit (2009). Later in his career he turned his attention to historical artistic figures (Nannerl, la sœur de Mozart, 2010), Anton Tchékhov 1890 (2015). He work was described as “subtle and possessing great sensibility”. Source: Article "René Féret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 26, 1945
Deathday: April 28, 2015
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L'homme qui n'était pas là
1987-05-06
L'homme qui n'était pas là
Overview: Charles Elaine, a famous actor, becomes the target of a man who wants to apply to him a theory according to which you can make someone crazy by manipulating him. Rella, a beautiful young woman, is designed to drive Charles crazy.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-06
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Solemn Communion
1977-04-27
Solemn Communion
Overview: In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-04-27
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L'Enfant du pays
2003-08-20
L'Enfant du pays
Overview: This tale of childhood and adolescence is told through brief sequences that take place in the life of a modest family from the Pas-de-Calais region during the forties, fifties and sixties. Paul, the main character, who we meet when he’s 5, 13 and 18, is the throughline of this tale told in a fragmentary way well adapted to the scattered nature of memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-20
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Savannah
1988-08-17
Savannah
Overview: Colin and Mailland are small-time crooks on the run who are surprised to find the seven-year-old runaway Savannah is along for the ride. The police and her parents fear she has been kidnapped, and a massive manhunt is launched with orders to shoot to kill the alleged perpetrators. The lovable little girl soon melts the hearts of the crooks, as the trio enjoy an unlikely but sentimental friendship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-17
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East/West
1999-09-01
East/West
Overview: June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-01
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Sarah
1983-04-27
Sarah
Overview: An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous
1975-10-11
Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-11
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The Prodigal Daughter
1981-03-25
The Prodigal Daughter
Overview: A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-25
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Like a Star Shining in the Night
2008-12-03
Like a Star Shining in the Night
Overview: A young couple finds out what love truly means when one of them has a brush with death. When Anne and Marc met, it was love at first sight, and the longer they were together, the more they realized they never wanted to be apart. But not long after they married, Marc's doctor discoveres some unexpected symptoms...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-03
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Couchettes express
1994-08-10
Couchettes express
Overview: Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Bernard, for protection. He suffers from an unknown illness and he is not alone on the run for scholars who want to use him as a guinea pig, but also for Brandeburg, a trader in human organs.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-08-10
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Lumière
1976-03-24
Lumière
Overview: Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, had also finished her relationship with the director and was about to receive an award…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-24
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