French films of 1996
Encyclopedia
A list of film
s produced in France
in 1996
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Film
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s produced in France
France
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in 1996
1996 in film
Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...
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1996
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| 1996 1996 in film Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:... |
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| Beaumarchais Beaumarchais (film) Beaumarchais is a 1996 French biopic film directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc and Sandrine Kiberlain... |
Edouard Molinaro Édouard Molinaro Édouard Molinaro is a French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was born in Gironde, Bordeaux.He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès , My Uncle Benjamin , Dracula and Son , and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles Édouard Molinaro (born 13 May 1928) is a French... |
Fabrice Luchini Fabrice Luchini Fabrice Luchini is a French stage and film actor.-Biography:Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement... , Manuel Blanc Manuel Blanc Manuel Blanc is a French television and film actor.-Selected filmography:* I Don't Kiss * La Rivière Espérance * Beaumarchais * Exit * Two * Vivante * Mes parents... |
Adventure/Biopic | |
| Clubbed to Death Clubbed to Death (film) Clubbed to Death is a 1996 French film starring Élodie Bouchez, directed by Yolande Zauberman, and co-written by Zauberman and Noémie Lvovsky. The film concerns a love triangle that forms between 20-year-old Lola and the couple she encounters at an all-night rave.... |
Yolande Zauberman Yolande Zauberman - Filmography :*Classified People *Caste criminelle *Me Ivan, You Abraham *Clubbed to Death *La Guerre à Paris *Paradise now - Journal d'une femme en crise - External links :... |
Élodie Bouchez Élodie Bouchez Élodie Bouchez-Bangalter is a French actress. She is best known in the United States for her role as Renée Rienne on the fifth and final season of the television show Alias... |
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| Encore Encore (1996 film) Encore is a 1996 comedy-drama film by French director Pascal Bonitzer. The film follows the mid-life crisis of a university professor, played by Jackie Berroyer. The film also stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Laurence Côte, Natacha Régnier, and Hélène Fillières.-Awards:Bonitzer was awarded the 1996... |
Pascal Bonitzer | Romantic comedy | Won Prix Jean Vigo, +2 nominations | |
| Irma Vep Irma Vep Irma Vep is a 1996 film directed by the French director Olivier Assayas, starring Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung in a story about the disasters that ensue as a middle-aged French film director attempts to remake Louis Feuillade's classic silent film serial Les vampires... |
Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:... |
Maggie Cheung Maggie Cheung Maggie Cheung Man yuk is a Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983... |
Fantasy drama | Won KNF Award (Rotterdam 1997) |
| Ponette Ponette Ponette is a 1996 French film directed by Jacques Doillon. The film centers on four-year-old Ponette , who is coming to terms with the death of her mother... |
Jacques Doillon Jacques Doillon Jacques Doillon is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women... |
Victoire Thivisol Victoire Thivisol Victoire Thivisol is a film actress.She first gained acclaim for her role as a child coping with her mother's death in the 1996 film, Ponette and became the youngest actress to win the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival... |
Drama | 9 wins & 3 nominations |
| Ridicule Ridicule Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself... |
Patrice Leconte Patrice Leconte Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:... |
Jean Rochefort Jean Rochefort Jean Rochefort is a French actor, with a career that has spanned over five decades.Rochefort was born in Paris, France. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen He was 19 years old when he entered the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche. Later he joined the Conservatoire National... , Fanny Ardant Fanny Ardant Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures since 1976. Ardant won the César Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her performance in Pédale douce.-Early life:... |
Comedy drama | Nominated for Oscar, +12 wins, +12 nominations |
| Une robe d'été Une robe d'été A Summer Dress is a 1996 short film directed by François Ozon about a lagging gay relationship that is refueled in an unexpected way.-Plot:... |
François Ozon François Ozon François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality.... |
Short | 2 wins & 1 nomination | |
| Three Lives and Only One Death Three Lives and Only One Death Three Lives and Only One Death is a 1996 French film directed by Raúl Ruiz. It was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, and was the penultimate film to star Marcello Mastroianni, before his death in 1996.-Cast:... |
Raoul Ruiz Raoul Ruiz Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino was a Chilean filmmaker.Ruiz spent some years at the Catholic University of Santa Fe, Argentina's cinema school. Back in Chile, he directed his first feature film Tres tristes tigres in the late 1960s, winning the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival... |
Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :... , Anna Galiena Anna Galiena Anna Galiena is an Italian actress, best known to English-speaking audiences for her appearances in Le Mari de la coiffeuse, Jamón, jamón and Being Human.-Movie career:... |
Comedy | 2 wins & 1 nomination |
| When the Cat's Away | Cédric Klapisch Cédric Klapisch Cédric Klapisch , is a French film director.Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII... |
Garance Clavel | Romantic comedy | 1 win & 3 nominations |
| My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument | Arnaud Desplechin Arnaud Desplechin Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director.-Biography:Arnaud Desplechin is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord department... |
Entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival 1996 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:*Francis Ford Coppola *Nathalie Baye *Greta Scacchi, actrice *Michael Ballhaus *Henry Chapier *Atom Egoyan *Eiko Ishioka *Krzysztof Piesiewicz *Antonio Tabucchi... |
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| Thieves Thieves (film) Thieves is a 1996 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve and Laurence Côte. The plot follows a cynical police officer, who comes from a family of thieves, and a lonely philosophy professor, both romantically involved with a self-destructive petty... |
André Téchiné André Téchiné André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors.... |
Entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival 1996 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:*Francis Ford Coppola *Nathalie Baye *Greta Scacchi, actrice *Michael Ballhaus *Henry Chapier *Atom Egoyan *Eiko Ishioka *Krzysztof Piesiewicz *Antonio Tabucchi... |
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| A Summer's Tale | Éric Rohmer Éric Rohmer Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma.... |
Screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival 1996 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:*Francis Ford Coppola *Nathalie Baye *Greta Scacchi, actrice *Michael Ballhaus *Henry Chapier *Atom Egoyan *Eiko Ishioka *Krzysztof Piesiewicz *Antonio Tabucchi... |
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| La Bouche de Jean-Pierre La Bouche de Jean-Pierre La Bouche de Jean-Pierre is a 1996 French drama film directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Denise Aron-Schropfer – Solange* Sandra Sammartino – Mimi* Denise Schrofter... |
Lucile Hadžihalilović Lucile Hadžihalilović Lucile Hadžihalilović is a French filmmaker. She became the first woman to win the Stockholm International Film Festival annual Bronze Horse award for best film for her 2004 film Innocence.... |
Screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival 1996 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:*Francis Ford Coppola *Nathalie Baye *Greta Scacchi, actrice *Michael Ballhaus *Henry Chapier *Atom Egoyan *Eiko Ishioka *Krzysztof Piesiewicz *Antonio Tabucchi... |
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| A Saturday on Earth A Saturday on Earth A Saturday on Earth is a 1996 French drama film directed by Diane Bertrand. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Elsa Zylberstein - Claire* Eric Caravaca - Martin* Johan Leysen - Franck... |
Diane Bertrand | Screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival 1996 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:*Francis Ford Coppola *Nathalie Baye *Greta Scacchi, actrice *Michael Ballhaus *Henry Chapier *Atom Egoyan *Eiko Ishioka *Krzysztof Piesiewicz *Antonio Tabucchi... |
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External links
- French films of 1996 at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- 1990s film at Filmsdefrance.com
- Films by year at Cinema-francais.fr