Françoise Berd
Nacimiento : 1923-03-02, Saint-Pacome, Québec, Canada
Muerte : 2001-08-10
Historia
Françoise Berd (born Françoise Bernadette Loranger; March 2, 1923 – August 10, 2001) was a Quebec actress and founder of the theatre company L'Égrégore.
Berd played the role of the caretaker in the film A Special Day (Una Giornata particulare) by Ettore Scola (1977), alongside Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
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Soeur Amanda
Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester is coming to town and becomes a slinky, svelte temptress
Sister Thérèse
Una monja (Meg Tilly) asegura haber recibido la visita de Dios y haberse quedado embarazada. Entonces la psiquiatra Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda) decide investigar el caso para llegar al fondo del asunto.
Mme Dupuis
In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this oppressive universe, they created a parallel world: the institution's basement where, in a maze of tunnels, they founded an independent company, with its rituals, spells. A young girl, Agnes, reigns over this underground world that adults seem to tolerate.
Mrs. Lavallé, Théo's mother
Contrecoeur is a film using fantastic realism to talk about psychology, drift and love. Three characters must define themselves in an enclosed space, a truck trapped in a snowstorm, and dream of somewhere else to find each other.
Mme. Zom
A film by Gilles Groulx.
Producer
A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.
Mme Picard
The nightmares of a poor and lonely delivery man.
Mrs. Parslow
In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.
Cécile Gauthier
Charity House Woman
En un mundo futuro, la Tierra sufre una nueva glaciación. La humanidad ha sido diezmada, y los pocos que han sobrevivido ocupan su tiempo en un juego llamado "quinteto". Para un pequeño grupo de ellos, además, el juego es un asunto de vida o muerte.
Concierge
El 6 de mayo de 1938, Hitler visita Roma. Es un día de fiesta para la Italia fascista, que se vuelca en el recibimiento. En una casa de vecinos sólo quedan la portera, un ama de casa, Antonietta, y Gabriele, que teme a la policía por algún motivo desconocido. Al margen de la celebración política, Antonietta y Gabriele establecen una relación afectiva muy especial que les permite evadirse durante unas horas de la tristeza y monotonía de la vida cotidiana.
An Old Maid
The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
Grande Admiratrice de Jeannot
A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
Françoise
In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.
Leslie
Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.
Sa femme
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.
