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'Marital Home') is a 1970 romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut, and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade. It is the fourth in Truffaut's series of five films about Antoine Doinel , and directly follows Stolen Kisses (1968), depicting the married life of Antoine (Léaud) and Christine (Jade).
François Truffaut's film, Day for Night, won the award in 1974. France has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [nb 1] since the conception of the award in 1956. France has been one of the most successful countries in the world in this category, and more than half of their Oscar submissions have achieved ...
Cohabitation is a system of divided government that occurs in semi-presidential systems, such as France, whenever the president is from a different political party than the majority of the members of parliament.
The Sleeping Car Murders (also known as The Sleeping Car Murder, French title: Compartiment tueurs) is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot. It stars Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner and Pascale Roberts. [1]
Alice Guy explained in her memoirs: "As actors, my friends, a screaming baby, an anxious mother leaping to and fro into the field of focus, and my first film, La Fée aux Choux, was born.” Since that one-minute length of film cost as much as Alice’s salary for a week, she apparently decided not to reshoot after the mother jumped in.
Cousin Cousine received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, a César Award nomination for Best Film, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and the U.S. National Board of Review Award as one of the Top 5 Foreign Films of the Year. [5] In 1989, an English-language remake was released, Cousins.
The Unfaithful Wife (French: La Femme infidèle) is a 1969 French–Italian crime drama film written and directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Stéphane Audran and Michel Bouquet. [1] The story follows a businessman who discovers his wife has been unfaithful.
Just Before Nightfall (French: Juste avant la nuit) is a 1971 French crime drama film written and directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Stéphane Audran and Michel Bouquet. Based on the 1951 novel The Thin Line by Edward Atiyah , it follows a married businessman who, after killing his mistress, tries to ease his conscience by confessing to ...