Christian Vadim

Christian Vadim

Birth : 1963-06-18, Paris, France

History

Christian Vadim est le fils du réalisateur Roger Vadim et de l'actrice Catherine Deneuve. Il est ainsi le demi-frère de l'actrice Chiara Mastroianni (fille de Catherine Deneuve et de Marcello Mastroianni), le demi-frère de Nathalie Plémiannikov (fille de Roger Vadim et d'Annette Stroyberg), le demi-frère de Vanessa Plemiannikov (fille de Roger Vadim et de Jane Fonda) et le demi-frère de Vania Plemiannikov (fils de Roger Vadim et de Catherine Schneider). En 1983, à l'âge de 20 ans, il fait ses débuts en interprétant un petit rôle dans le film Surprise Party de son père Roger Vadim. L'année suivante Éric Rohmer l'engage pour un rôle secondaire dans son film les Nuits de la pleine lune. Il a un fils, Igor Divetain, né le 18 septembre 1987, avec Hortense Divetain. En 1996, il épouse Caroline Bufalini, une styliste de 24 ans, à la Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun. En 1999, il interprète le jeune Bloch aux côtés de sa mère, Catherine Deneuve, dans Le Temps retrouvé de Raoul Ruizpour qui il joue également dans Combat d'amour en songe en 2000 et Ce jour-là en 2003. Christian Vadim joue aussi au théâtre, dans Le Jeu de la vérité et Le Jeu de la vérité 2 de Philippe Lellouche. Divorcé, il vit avec Julia Livage, chroniqueuse à Télématin. Ils sont les parents de deux petites filles, Lou, née le 5 avril 2010, et Mona, née en janvier 2012.

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Christian Vadim

Movies

Le Voyage en pyjama
Pair et manque
Stage Director
Nothing was supposed to disturb the daily life of these three childhood friends, single and childless in their fifties, used to meet every Sunday evening in their favorite bar to remake the world. However, the arrival of Ludmila will upset their habits and even their certainties. They launch themselves together in a game of strip-roll which will reveal much more than their bodies. Jean was sure to win. Patrick doubted the effectiveness of the hydro-alcoholic gels. As for Simon, did he really not know who SHE was...? Place your bets, nothing goes anymore. Close
Pair et manque
Nothing was supposed to disturb the daily life of these three childhood friends, single and childless in their fifties, used to meet every Sunday evening in their favorite bar to remake the world. However, the arrival of Ludmila will upset their habits and even their certainties. They launch themselves together in a game of strip-roll which will reveal much more than their bodies. Jean was sure to win. Patrick doubted the effectiveness of the hydro-alcoholic gels. As for Simon, did he really not know who SHE was...? Place your bets, nothing goes anymore. Close
The Man Who Sold His Skin
William
To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.
Station Bonne Nouvelle
acteur
Quand sort la recluse
maître Carvin
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
Le temps qui reste
Franck
Un nouveau départ
L'appel de Londres
François
Valentin Valentin
Sergio
In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
Tu es si jolie ce soir
Prosecutor Vadim, who has an uneasy relationship with his glamorous wife Chanéac, vanishes at the time a psycho is offing club girls to the strains of the "Tu es si jolie ce soir" song.
Le Jeu de la vérité
Pascal
Sans maux
The Man
Night Across the Street
Professor Jean Giono
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
My Best Holidays
Jacky
Over this long hot summer, Claude and Isabelle get their marriage back on track, while Bibou and Simon, spend a memorable summer discovering the world of grown-ups.
Crime Is Our Business
Augustin
Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
Boire, Fumer et Conduire Vite
Antonio Vivaldi, un prince à Venise
Goldoni
Le Jeu de la vérité 2
Pascal
Le Jeu de la vérité
Recorded in Theatre de Fontainebleau. The story is about three high school friends in their forties who meet regularly for dinner. One evening, a fourth person is invited, the girl with whom all three were in love in high school. Then begins a part of the Game of Truth where indiscreet questions, sharp spikes and revelations come together. The piece is published by Art & Comedy (2007) and released on DVD.
Princesse Marie
Antoine Léoni
The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.
Trench of Hope
While playing football, two children stumble across the grave of a French WWI infantryman who died in the trenches in 1918. His name was Pierre Delpeuch and in the last days of his life he and his comrades shared an extraordinary human adventure. Exhausted, cut off from the front, huddled in their trench, Pierre and four others bravely stood firm. Facing them was another trench containing five similar exhausted and determined Germans. Their only aim was to resist, whatever the cost, until reinforcements arrived.
A Place Among the Living
Ernest Ripper
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
Jean-Sébastien Bach
A dramatic exploration of the life and struggles of the great composer, J.S. Bach, from his orphaning at the age of nine, through his struggles for the freedom to compose music in a restrictive society, to his eventual recognition after death.
That Day
Ritter
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
Don't Worry, Be Happy
José
With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come home to roost, don't they? As a matter of fact, Désiré gets his due punishment when Manu, his girlfriend, kicks him out of home. At a loss, he finds refuge with Alex, a young actor. He is soon joined by Eduardo, an Italian producer, dumped like him by his wife. While Désiré tries to rebuild himself, the three men decide to write a film script that will be the basis of a vehicle for Alex.
La famille selon Mathieu
Mathieu
What should have been a simple family reunion turns into a settling of scores.
Accords et à cris
Jean-Michel
Anne Versois is both a psychiatrist and a cellist in a small orchestra. She entrusts her instrument to her friend Delphine and goes to prison to conduct a psychiatric examination of the inmate Victor Marchi. While she is interviewing the accused, Delphine's car explodes. She later learns that the explosion is of criminal origin. It was a bomb that blew up the vehicle.
Savage Souls
Le pasteur
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..
Love Torn in Dreams
David / un Pirate
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
Time Regained
Bloch
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.
L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
Audiard
Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Jean-Paul drives away, he picks up a hitchhiker. When the car, stolen by the hitchhiker, explodes, police believe the dead hitchhiker is Jean-Paul. Madeleine takes up with Jean-Paul's brother, Bastien, while Jean-Paul, arriving in Strasbourg, is mistaken for the heir to a fortune. The detective on the case spends more time writing crime novels than investigating real-life crimes.
Un coup de baguette magique
Père Sigur
While Achille sinks into despair after losing his job, Jeanne has an affair with a conductor.
Jalousie
Pierre
Pierre (Christian Vadim) is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille (Lio), an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to her with her oh-so submissive love, and he is playing some games with her head by pretending (usually) to have been playing around with others. Eventually, he encounters another woman who is not so sticky and tells her to buzz off. When they meet some time later, it becomes clear that the relationship meant different things to each of them.
El invierno en Lisboa
Jim Biralbo
Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer.
Mauvaise fille
Michel
Rose, 20, lives in Camargue with her brother Vincent, her elder, and her mechanic father who has never recovered from the departure of their mother when they were children. She serves as the wife and mother to both and, tired of this situation, she wants to go to Marseille to find a job, and then live there.
Full Moon in Paris
Bastien
Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.
College
Marco Poggi
Surprise Party
Christian Bourget
Adventures of a group of youngsters set in a provincial French city in the 1950's.