Béatrice Romand
Biography: Béatrice Romand is a French actress and director. She is best known for her work with director Éric Rohmer in such films as Claire's Knee, Love in the Afternoon, A Good Marriage, Le Rayon vert and Autumn Tale. She also appeared on television in Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre, a German detective show.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 16, 1952
Deathday: N/A
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A Tale of Autumn
1998-09-07
A Tale of Autumn
Overview: Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-07
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A Good Marriage
1982-05-19
A Good Marriage
Overview: Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-19
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Claire's Knee
1970-12-11
Claire's Knee
Overview: On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-11
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Themroc
1973-02-22
Themroc
Overview: Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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The Romantic Englishwoman
1975-06-11
The Romantic Englishwoman
Overview: A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-11
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974-01-24
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Overview: In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-24
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The House of the Yellow Carpet
1983-09-09
The House of the Yellow Carpet
Overview: Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man's visit begins a twisted a nightmare.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-09
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Rosette vend des roses
1985-01-01
Rosette vend des roses
Overview: A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of regular players from Rohmer films. With the help of her friends, Rosette takes advantage of a gullible stranger passing by in order to sell him all her roses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Love in the Afternoon
1972-09-01
Love in the Afternoon
Overview: The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Sex Shop
1972-10-25
Sex Shop
Overview: On the advice of a friend, Claude, married to the charming Isabelle and father of two, decided to transform his library, hardly flourishing, into a sex shop. This change of activity proves to be very lucrative and sharpens his desire to spice up his married life through various erotic experiences. Claude asks his wife to share with him the audacity he dreams of. Soon, the household meets a dentist and his wife and is engaged, without much success, to new discoveries. Isabelle, full of good will, tries to follow her husband ...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-25
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The Green Ray
1986-08-29
The Green Ray
Overview: A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-29
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
1987-02-04
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Overview: Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-02-04
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My Mother
2005-09-06
My Mother
Overview: Having suffered incest from her father from the age of eight to the age of twelve, at forty-five, Beatrice filmed, with two cameras, a long meeting with her mother to try, with the viewer, to understand their story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-06
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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
2005-01-01
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Overview: Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Couple
1986-01-18
Couple
Overview: Couple is a cinematic series of portrait films, which show two persons, who free to do what they wish, in a fixed camera shot of 3:20 minutes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-18
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Portrait de groupe
1986-02-05
Portrait de groupe
Overview: Portrait de groupe is a film series of filmed portraits that shows all kinds of groups gathered under family pretexts, friendly or professional, in a single fixed, wide shot (style: family photo) and silent of 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-02-05
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L'Artifice et le factice
2012-07-19
L'Artifice et le factice
Overview: "L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-19
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Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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The Adventures of Rosette
1983-04-02
The Adventures of Rosette
Overview: A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-02
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