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Casting (1983)
Character: Man of the cast
A famous director wants to make a film about true love, the kind his grandparents experienced when they lived together for 60 years. For this project, he holds auditions in a commercial real estate office. He asks the actors and actresses he meets to tell him about their conception of Love, with results that differ from those he expected...
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Les Mensonges (2010)
Character: Gilles Descombes
Véronique Richepois, a dynamic woman in her fifties, is a woman who would give God alms without confession. A model bank employee, an exemplary wife, married to an agricultural engineer with whom she has two children, a 21-year-old eldest daughter, who is soon to be married, and a 15-year-old teenager. But Véronique has a dual personality. She gets her clients to take out life insurance policies and arranges for power of attorney over the accounts, which grants her the comfort she dreamed of.
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Personne ne m'aime (1994)
Character: Michel
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.
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Les Inconnus Du Mont-Blanc (1986)
Character: N/A
Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps, rises to 4,810 m and was first climbed on August 8, 1786. Chamonix natives Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard set out on the afternoon of August 7 and returned victorious on the morning of the 9th, after two nights spent outdoors. This film is a staging that reconstructs this great event with all the problems it created and resolved, thus contributing to the emergence of the modern concept of mountaineering. Denis Ducroz, guide and filmmaker, immerses us in the minds and times of these two men, 224 years later.
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Valentin Valentin (2015)
Character: Aymé, la parton du Porte-Pot
In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
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Ensemble, nous allons vivre une très, très grande histoire d'amour... (2010)
Character: Le médecin du GIPN
Dorothée and Nicolas fall in love at first sight. Together, they’re going to live a very beautiful love story... they know it. But life always finds a way to compromise the best resolutions, the best script, and nothing will happen as expected. Nicolas and Dorothée will be carried into a stormy comedy as crazy as their passion for each other…
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L'Heure zéro (2007)
Character: N/A
Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily for the extended clan gathered at a sumptuous waterfront estate in Northern France, Inspector Martin Bataille is on hand to find out not only "who done it" but why.
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Comment c'est loin (2015)
Character: Hotel Manager
After ten years of doing nothing, Orel and Gringe are in their mid 30s and they struggle to finish their first rap album. Their texts are mostly sex jokes and booze stories and reflect the everyday life they have in a small town from France. The problem is that they never really finished a song and when their producers want to meet, they have to face a new challenge : finish their first song in the next 24h. Their old issues, the fear of failure, their alcoholic friends and annoying girlfriends won't help them to do so, or will they ?
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Les Compagnons Du Vide (1989)
Character: Self (archive footage)
"Les Compagnons Du Vide" (The Companions of the Void) is a documentary made in 1989 by Claude Andrieux and Gilles Chappaz, broadcast in two parts on the FR3 program "Montagne." The film explores the history of the mountain guide profession through portraits of mountain guides, showcasing the diversity of this high-risk occupation. It also delves into the intimate relationship between the climbing team and the client, using the example of prestigious guides. The documentary follows these teams on major climbs around Chamonix, on Mont Blanc, and on La Meije in the Écrins massif.
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Les michetonneuses (2020)
Character: L'entraîneur de boxe
A trio of fashion-loving best friends from the Parisian suburbs dabble in sex work while pursuing freedom and luxury goods in the city of love.
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La Mort du Chinois (1998)
Character: Alain
Michel, a children's book author, has always been successful in life until the day his wife leaves him for a Chinese person. Planning on killing his rival, he starts looking for them.
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Bonobo (2018)
Character: Félix
A mosaic of interrelated characters living in the same social housing project and all in search of happiness, forgiveness and meaning.
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Mercredi, folle journée ! (2001)
Character: supermarket manager
Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.
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Anti-Squat (2023)
Character: L'hôtelier
Paris, today. 38 y.o. Inès, mother of teenage Adam whom she is raising alone, is threatened with eviction. She absolutely must get a stable job to find them a place to live. She is taken on 2 months trial at “Anti-Squat,” a start-up company offering temporary housing in empty suburban office buildings. But the rules are very strict and the tenants have no rights. As a manager, Inès must live and sleep in the building to monitor the residents. But children are forbidden... She has two months to go, two months to complete her trial period, two months to start a new life at the risk of losing her most cherished values.
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Ouf (2013)
Character: Hugues
François has everything he could ever want, until he is kicked out of the house by his wife after his umpteenth slip up; after moving back in with his parents, he vows to win her back.
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Vive la République ! (1997)
Character: N/A
A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.
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