Françoise Hardy
Also Known As: فرانسواز هاردی
Biography: Françoise Madeleine Hardy (17 January 1944 – 11 June 2024) was a French singer-songwriter who was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure in French yé-yé music and became a cultural icon in France and internationally. In addition to her native French, she also sang in English, Italian, and German. Her musical career spanned more than 50 years, with over 30 studio albums released. She also represented Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest 1963. Born and raised in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, Hardy made her musical debut in 1962 on French label Disques Vogue and found immediate success through the song "Tous les garçons et les filles". Drifting away from her early rock and roll influences, she began to record in London in 1964, which allowed her to broaden her sound with albums such as Mon amie la rose, L'amitié, La maison où j'ai grandi, and Ma jeunesse fout le camp.... In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she released Comment te dire adieu, La question, and Message personnel. During this period, she worked with songwriters such as Serge Gainsbourg, Patrick Modiano, Michel Berger, and Catherine Lara. Between 1977 and 1988, she worked with producer Gabriel Yared on the albums Star, Musique saoûle, Gin Tonic, and À suivre. Her 1988 record Décalages was publicized as her final album, although she returned eight years later with Le danger, which reinvented her sound as harsher alternative rock. Her following albums of the 2000s — Clair-obscur, Tant de belles choses, and (Parenthèses...) — saw a return to her mellow style. In the 2010s, Hardy released her final three albums: La pluie sans parapluie, L'amour fou, and Personne d'autre. In addition to music, Hardy landed film roles as a supporting actress in Château en Suède, Une balle au cœur, and the American production Grand Prix. She became a muse for fashion designers such as André Courrèges, Yves Saint Laurent, and Paco Rabanne, and collaborated with photographer Jean-Marie Périer. Hardy developed a career as an astrologer, having written extensively on the subject from the 1970s onwards. She was also an author of fiction and non-fiction books from the 2000s. Her autobiography, Le désespoir des singes...et autres bagatelles, was a best-seller in France. As a public figure, Hardy was known for her shyness, disenchantment with celebrity life, and self-deprecatory attitude, which were attributed to her lifelong struggles with anxiety and insecurity. She married French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc in 1981. Their son, Thomas, also became a musician. Hardy remains one of the best-selling singers in French history and continues to be regarded as an important and influential figure in both French pop music and fashion. In 2006 she was awarded the Grande médaille de la chanson française, an honorary award given by the Académie française, in recognition of her career in music. Hardy died of cancer in Paris in June 2024, aged 80. ... Source: Article "Françoise Hardy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Deathday: June 11, 2024
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Grand Prix
Overview: The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Tour d'Eurovision
Overview: Documentary about the first five decades of the Eurovision Song Contest
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-05-14
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Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose
Overview: Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose is a 1968 American television special hosted by Princess Grace Kelly guiding the public through a tour of Monte Carlo. She encounters other celebrities such as Françoise Hardy, Terry-Thomas, Gilbert Bécaud, David Winters and his troupe the David Winters Dancers, who all perform musical numbers. We also meet her husband Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Françoise Hardy, une icône
Overview: Françoise Hardy is one of the rare artists who keeps an intact aura and arouses such a fascination throughout her career with all generations. Her androgynous figure, her exceptional photogeny and her hieratic allure have inspired photographers and fashion designers alike and seduced the greatest rock stars such as David Bowie and Mick Jagger. This documentary film, rich in archives, skillfully mixes songs and confidences. It takes us on a fascinating journey through time, from the yéyé period to today, and into the artist's feelings.
Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-12-01
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Dutronc, la vie malgré lui
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-15
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Somebody Told Me About Carla Bruni
Overview: A documentary tracking the life and career of the model-musician turned first lady of France.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
Overview: A short making of feature about the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grande Prix
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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La Lucarne magique
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-04
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Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Overview: The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evasions. Her childhood, her parents, her beginnings, the rumors, her love affairs, her marriage, her son, her successes, her farewells, her return, her mourning. The journey of an extraordinary popular icon who never stopped fighting. The courage of an artist who never gives up. "Sheila, toutes ces vies-là" is also a journey through time. 60 years of pop music, punctuated by numerous archives, personal films, timeless hits and illustrations by Marc-Antoine Coulon. But also 60 years of fashion, through a legendary wardrobe (her TV show outfits) that Sheila invites us to rediscover.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-24
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Françoise Hardy : tant de belles choses
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-06-01
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The Doves
Overview: The lives of two families in Montreal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-15
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Françoise et Udo...
Overview: This is the story of a meeting between a man and a woman. In a train, an Austrian singer and a French teacher exchange on their past, their character, and fall in love. Their journey is made in music. The opportunity to evoke Georges Brassens, Annabel Buffet, Eugène Ionesco…
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Overview: An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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What's New Pussycat?
Overview: A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-22
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Émilie Jolie
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-24
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The Barbarian Invasions
Overview: In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-24
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A Bullet Through the Heart
Overview: A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην καρδιά) is a 1966 Franco-Greek film directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet. Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-02-23
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Europa canta
Overview: Little Europe, a town in the American West, is chosen as the site for a European Music Festival to be internationally broadcast via television. The peace of the village is put in jeopardy when it comes to electing judges because the dormant antagonisms of the descendants of Italian, Spanish, French and Germans will be awakened, but the good sheriff easily resolves the dispute. Then the problem becomes more acute when the lawyer Betty, a comely young lady, who is late in coming to the event because she was seized by the henchmen of an industry bully who wants to influence the victory of one of his favorite songs.
Genres: Comedy Western Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-09
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Masculin Féminin
Overview: Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-22
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The Discreet Françoise Hardy
Overview: Sensitive lookback on Françoise Hardy's career and life.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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I ragazzi dell'Hully Gully
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-30
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Oh Les Filles!
Overview: What if French Rock were born with Edith Piaf? From sweet sixties pop to today's gender-indifferent anthems, from feminist rebels of the seventies to fashion icons of the social media age, from Françoise Hardy to Christine & The Queens, via Vanessa Paradis, Catherine Ringer, Charlotte Gainsbourg and many more, Oh Les Filles! tells the untold story of French female rock stars. Narrated by Clémence Poésy, this groundbreaking documentary combines interviews and iconic footage to radically reverse perspectives and give the patriarchy a kick!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-03
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High Pressure
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-02
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Vadim Mister Cool
Overview: As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and prolific father... Roger Vladimir Plémiannikov, a.k.a. Roger Vadim, tried everything until his death in 2000. Portrait of a man at the cutting edge of fashion and trends.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-28
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De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Overview: Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-03-27
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La Génération Salut les copains
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Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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Bonjour la France
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-21
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Gainsbourg and His Girls
Overview: Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his life: Juliette Gréco, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, Régine, France Gall, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bambou... An intimate portrait of the man who could not live without them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-18
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Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone
Overview: Thirty Italian singers from the sixties sing their hits.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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