Juliet Berto
Also Known As: ジュリエット・ベルト, 쥘리에트 베르토, Жюльет Берто
Biography: From Wikipedia Juliet Berto (January 16, 1947 – January 10, 1990) was a French actress, director and screenwriter. A member of the same loose group of student radicals as Anne Wiazemsky, she first appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her, and would go on to appear in many of Godard's subsequent films, including La Chinoise, Week End, Le Gai Savoir, and Vladimir et Rosa. She later became a muse for the French New Wave director Jacques Rivette, starring in Out 1 and Celine and Julie Go Boating. In the 1980s she also became a screenwriter and film director. Her film Cap Canaille (1983) was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1987, she was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. She died of cancer on 10 January 1990. She was 42.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Grenoble, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
Birthday: January 16, 1947
Deathday: January 10, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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La Chinoise
Overview: Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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Weekend
Overview: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-29
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Céline and Julie Go Boating
Overview: Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-18
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Summer Run
Overview: A young American who is not ready for adulthood spends a final summer of freedom backpacking across Europe. He falls in love and, as the summer ends, he must decide whether to stay or return to a far less alluring future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-05
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Sophie et le Capitaine
Overview: Unfinished movie after two weeks shooting in May 1978.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-05-01
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Family Life
Overview: Every Saturday, to the great despair of his wife, Emmanuel finds his daughter Elise, fruit of a first union. A demanding and excessive father in his passions, he went to lay a loving trap for Elise.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-13
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Duelle
Overview: Two enigmatic women, Leni and Viva, separately arrive in Paris, each with a hidden but shared motive. As they navigate the city and their search progresses, various characters become entangled in their conflict, one which increasingly comes to take a fantastical turn. These characters too, driven by their own desires, strive to assert their influence in the struggle. In Paris, drenched in an otherworldly ambiance, an opaque tale of desire and power emerges through mystery and secrets.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-15
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Comrades
Overview: 22 year-old- Yan is trying hard to find his way in life: a job he likes, an ideal. In Saint-Nazaire, his home town, he vegetates, just like his father, an unambitious worker. His fiancée, Juliette, has middle class values and dreams of nothing but a comfortable married life. Dissatisfied, he moves to Paris where he becomes an assembly line worker at the Billancourt Renault car factory. Sick of the working conditions he and his fellow workers have to endure there, he soon turns into a leftist activist...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-11-05
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Le Gai Savoir
Overview: Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-07-12
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A Savage Summer
Overview: In Juan-les-Pins, Serge drops off a hitchhiker, Sylvie, who joins "Théo's gang", a group of students and workers, all young, all broke, improvising their vacations from day to day. Among them, Serge meets Helle, a discreet young girl with whom he quickly falls in love, but whom he can only win over once he's sorted out his many problems with the wrong people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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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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Claro
Overview: In the words of the director, a movie about 'the colonizers in the view of the colonized', the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings throughout Europe and Brazil emphasizing the perception of human life as trance-like experiences and thus offering a view of the human history as a connection of symbolic behavior.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-11-20
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Out 1
Overview: While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-15
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Vladimir and Rosa
Overview: Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activities. Judge Hoffman becomes the character Judge Himmler (played by Ernest Menzer) and the defendants become a microcosms of the French Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-16
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Willing
Overview: A young, unscrupulous director hires an actress and uses the story she tells him of her life to write his screenplay, but fires her and entrusts the leading role to someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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The Middle of the World
Overview: Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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Guns
Overview: The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On the surface, it would seem that these characters are bad guys. In fact, the guns are to be used by a resistance group who hope to continue shipping oil to the West, despite the despotic curbs imposed upon fuel shipments by their leaders.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-18
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Return from Africa
Overview: A young married Swiss couple, Vincent and Françoise, are planning to leave Geneva for Africa. A friend of theirs lives in Algeria and promises them a job there. On the eve of their departure, they receive a telegram cancelling their trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Défense de savoir
Overview: When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-29
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Snow
Overview: Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-20
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Destroy Yourselves
Overview: Detruisez-vous is a ‘primitive’ film which breaks all the rules of film-making. It’s the first Zanzibar film (and predates the very naming of the movement), an attempt to make a film which defies the rules of production, the production line of commerce
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-10
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Mur Murs
Overview: Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-13
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The Conversation Is Over
Overview: The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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Destins parallèles
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Wheel of Ashes
Overview: A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre Clementi protagonist's inner life remains obscure, the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood that offers his temptations appears in harrowing detail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Cap Canaille
Overview: Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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L'escadron Volapük
Overview: This somewhat talky French-language film concerns a goofy bunch of military types and involves them in encounters with a variety of late '60s radicals who spout off a bit. It is notable chiefly because it was about to be subjected to severe censorship for its political content but was saved by the incoming Culture Minister Jacques Duhamel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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A Simple Story
Overview: A documentary filmmaker goes to work on a project about Tunisians who have worked abroad. Many have married French women, and the couples try to adjust to France after many years in Tunisia. The man decides to forego the film in order to address the personal and social concerns of the people trying to cope in their new surroundings. This feature appeared at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-06-07
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Mr. Klein
Overview: Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
Genres: Mystery Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-23
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A Parisian Love Story
Overview: A very unusual love story indeed the one that unites for a while Marie, a young French woman born in Algier, whose dream is becoming a top model and Ali, an Algerian from Clichy, recently released from prison, who hopes to become ... an astronaut!
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-02
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The Razor's Edge
Overview: Samar, a child of the war, finds relief from the chaos around her through Egyptian movies she watches on television. Karim, an artist in retreat from life, remains in his apartment in war-torn West Beirut, confident that he is safe in his familiar neighborhood. An unlikely bond is formed between the two as they face the devastating civil war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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On the Lam
Overview: A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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Bastien, Bastienne
Overview: Catherine (Juliet Berto) is the temporary head of the family while her husband, whom she loathes, is away fighting in the war. Her widowed sister-in-law Suzanne (Anna Prucnal) lives with her, and after awhile it becomes apparent that Catherine loathes her as well. The children in the house are all boys -- Catherine has two sons, twelve and thirteen, and Suzanne also has a twelve-year old. While the relationship between Suzanne and Catherine is coming to a head, Catherine is having an affair with an army officer, and the boys in the family are planning a musical performance for everyone. The crescendo may be barely audible at the beginning, but it builds up to a tragedy at the end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Le Temps D'Anaïs
Overview: An apprentice writer with an odd attitude is arrested for killing his girlfriend's lover.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-02-18
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Slogan
Overview: Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh. His own pregnant wife Francoise usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-07-27
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Overview: As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-17
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Out 1: Spectre
Overview: Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-06-30
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Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-08-22
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The Water Spider
Overview: Bernard is in love with a water spider. He wants to replace his wife Catherine with the spider because she bores him. The spider transforms into a tarantula and later in a mysterious mute girl named Nadie. He falls in love with the girl/spider and finally he has to choose between his wife or the spider.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-11
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The Ministries of Art
Overview: Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-11
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The Big Shots
Overview: Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-31
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Car Cemetery
Overview: The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-30
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Homeo
Overview: Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not something specific that I wanted to say: what the film depicts is above all reality, not fiction. Homeo is, for me, the search for an autonomous cinematographic language, which doesn't owe anything to traditional narrative, or maybe everything. Cinema is, above all, part of a way of life which will become more and more self-assured in the years and century to come. We are part of this change, and that’s why I tried in Homeo to establish a series of perpetual changes, in constant evolution or regress, which tries, above all, to focus on things.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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I. You. They.
Overview: Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed from the outside world. What struck her the most was to find out that her boss had shrunk his wife and kept her in the fridge in order, as he said, to keep her safe from a hostile world!
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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Male of the Century
Overview: The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-12
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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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Paradise Hotel
Overview: A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-15
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Juliet in Paris
Overview: A young student, alone in Paris, is engaged in strange and bloody experiences of which she is both the authorizer and the victim.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Moving-Picture Man
Overview: Happy fun times with a little crew of people driving around to backwater villages to show movies in places where the locals don't get much culture. But all good things come to an end...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-11-11
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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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Damia: Concert in Black Velvet
Overview: Documentary on the singer Damia.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Overview: Camille invites some soldiers to spend a Sunday in the country with her. When they arrive, they find that something is amiss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-20
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Roberte
Overview: Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Cinématon n°441 : Juliet Berto
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-12
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Overview: The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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Delphine and Carole
Overview: In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor representation of women in the public media.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-14
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Juliet Berto, where are you?
Overview: Documentary on the french actress Juliet Berto.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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la fille aux talons d'argile
Overview: Essay film based on the book by the same name by actress and director Juliet Berto.
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Original Language: fr
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L'Homme aux cheveux bleus
Overview: From the first meeting with the critic Louis Marcorelles to his last interview in Cahiers du cinéma, a portrait of Glauber Rocha, a leading figure of Cinema Novo, enriched with testimonies from his close friends such as Juliet Berto and Christiana Tullio Altan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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