Serge Merlin
Nacimiento : 1932-12-29, Sainte-Barbe-du-Tlélat, French Algeria [now Oued Tlelat, Algeria]
Muerte : 2019-02-16
Historia
Serge Merlin (born Serge Merle; 29 December 1932 – 16 February 2019) was a French actor. He became internationally known for his role in the film Amélie (2001), which received widespread critical acclaim.
On 9 July 2014, Merlin was made a Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters.
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A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").
Portier
Un crítico sin éxito, pero lleno de vanidad, se propone escribir una biografía sobre un anciano pintor ciego que, tras causar furor en el mundo artístico, ha quedado relegado al olvido. El crítico consigue alterar la rutinaria vida del anciano proponiéndole un viaje por Europa para encontrar a su primer amor. Lo que no sabe es que el viejo, en realidad, lo está usando para poder librarse de la férrea custodia de su sobreprotectora hija.
Albert
Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Before he died, his father left a "will" in which he requested that his other son, Pierre, who hasn't been heard from for two years, spread his ashes in Poland. His father's preference comes as a rude shock for Julien, and it opens a chasm inside him, slowly bringing to light an unspeakable secret.
Barkilphedro
Nueva adaptación de la novela de Víctor Hugo del mismo título. (FILMAFFINITY)
Medium
le père de Daniel
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.
Agostini
Un director está preparando una película sobre la vida de Proust. Mientras que realiza el trabajo de escritura revisa algunos de los aspectos más destacados de su vida.
Raymond Dufayel
Amelie no es una chica como las demás. Ha visto a su pez de colores deslizarse hacia las alcantarillas municipales, a su madre morir en la plaza de Notre-Dame y a su padre dedicar todo su afecto a un gnomo de jardín. De repente, a sus veintidós años, descubre su objetivo en la vida: arreglar la vida de los demás. A partir de entonces, inventa toda clase de estrategias para intervenir, sin que se den cuenta, en la existencia de varias personas de su entorno. Entre ellas está su portera, que pasa los días bebiendo vino de Oporto; Georgette, una estanquera hipocondríaca: o "el hombre de cristal", un vecino que sólo ve el mundo a través de la reproducción de un cuadro de Renoir.
Doctor
The story of the rogue sorcerer Simon Magus, re-imagined and set in contemporary Paris.
Robert
A few stories are mixed, but all starts with Claire who one day brings back to Gregoire one of his books found at the university. Gregoire is the tenebrous romantic king, and Claire falls in love with him. But there is also Gregoire's circle, his disturbing neighbour, his maybe crazy grandmother Diane, his former teacher Hugo. And this is mixed up with Sebastien's attempts to seduce Claire then her mother Anne. And also Claire's psychiatrist.
Gabriel Marie
Sobre una plataforma marina perdida en la niebla, el malvado Krank envejece prematuramente, pues carece de una cualidad esencial: la facultad de soñar. Por esta razón, rapta a los niños de la ciudad para robarles sus sueños. Sus compañeros de infortunio son: Irvin, un cerebro que flota dentro de un acuario, la señorita Bismuth y una banda de clónicos. Al otro lado de la niebla, en la ciudad portuaria, se encuentra One, una fuerza de la naturaleza ingenua, pero extraordinariamente valiente, que busca a su hermano pequeño desaparecido.
Victim of a train accident, a man regains consciousness in the house of the woman who shared his compartment.
Napoléon
Toussaint and Madeleine have loved each other from the cradle. They are now sixty. They have reached retirement age and have decided to return to Corsica. Toussaint has spent thirty years underground in the maintenance workshops of the Paris metro system. he is happy, but Madeleine misses Paris with its excitement and, above all, their son, who is a doctor in one of the French capital's major hospitals. Madeleine has such love for her son that Toussaint teases her by saying she should ask the Pope for dispensation in order to marry him. Toussaint and Madeleine return to Balba at the beginning of the winter when the days are short, the village bar is closed and the men too scarce for even a game of cards. The silence is occasionally broken by the village idiot, Napolean, as he ambles about shouting the coming death of Corsica while on patrol of the locked-up houses he's been set to guard...
Grossman
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
Alker
En mayo de 1983, un hombre de 49 años, acompañado de su hijo, viaja al pueblo de su infancia, en Baden. Su deseo es descubrir qué le sucedió en realidad a su madre. Sus recuerdos son muy borrosos y, además, por aquel entonces era demasiado pequeño para comprender lo que ocurría a su alrededor.
En septiembre de 1793, el Comité de Salud Pública, instigado por Robespierre, instaura el "Terror". El hambre reaparece y con ella la revuelta: las cabezas ruedan. Danton regresa a París para oponerse a Robespierre: es el choque entre dos políticos irreconciliables, entre dos fuertes personalidades. La película narra los últimos días de Georges-Jacques Danton: su proceso y su ejecución en la guillotina, junto a sus amigos, por orden del autoritario y dogmático Robespierre.
N°158
Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Greyson
An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny...
A nyomozó
The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.
N°158
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Pair Marsile / Ganelon / Thierry
Francia, Edad Media. Los comediantes que se dirigen en peregrinación hacia Santiago de Compostela recitan La Chanson de Roland a los aldeanos que se van encontrando en las diversas etapas del camino.
Silvio
Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.
Loisa
French TV adaptation of the Golem myth
Jakub Gold
Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and evil, but also between passive and impassive. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the 1943 Warsaw Uprising. It was originally titled Samson, but re-spelled as Sampson upon its American release to avoid confusion with a sword-and-sandal epic of the same name.