Brigitte Fossey

A look-back at popular French movie "La Boum" (The Party).

A young girl from Rouen dreams about directing movies with Julia Roberts. Overprotected by her mother, she hopes to join a prestigeous cinema school in New York City, but nothing happens as expected, and her dreams are cruelly broken. Denying her fate, she leaves France to New York City, with her nutty-aunt's help, dreaming to give her screenplay to Julia Roberts herself.

Saul escaped the coming Shoah as a child by being sent from Vienna to Brussels by a Kindertransport. Now in 1986, he is on the road to resilience and owner of a Delicatessen dedicated to the "Septième Art" - the movies. With Joakin, his protégé, a young Chilean director, they decide to write the story of Saul's childhood and make it into a film. But love comes knocking at his door and confronts him with his past as a hidden child...

Two down-on-their-luck strangers become improbable companions in misfortune.

Love blossoms when Melody is assigned to track down a reclusive pianist and covince him to play a classical Christmas concert in Vienna.

Setting out on her own, 25-year-old Alice visits several apartments with the help of real estate agent Julien, a married man with children. They soon fall in love. Around the same time, Alice takes work at Julien's wife Marie's tea shop. Charmed by the interest Alice shows in her, Marie lets her guard down and starts confiding in her. In return, Alice, tells Marie about her affair with a married man. Things come to a head when Julien has a car accident and the affair is exposed.

Laura, Eve, Anouch and Yaël are four cousins, very different and very endearing, who have one thing in common: they lie, but always for love! When the first three discover a few weeks before their little cousin's wedding that her perfect fiancé is cheating on her, they vote in unison "Don't tell him"!

August 2011 pageant performance staged by Robert Hossein depicting St. Bernadette's encounter with Mary, the mother of Jesus. Production was filmed at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Lourdes with an audience of 30,000 people.

Violette Castillon, a young Parisian lawyer, goes to the Île de Ré where a criminal named Stany claims her to ensure his defense. In exchange, he will tell her the truth about his father, the late robber José Rocca. The day after Violette's arrival on the island, Stany is attacked, a notable from the region is found hanged and other misfortunes befall the island. While the dead are multiplying around her, Violette is determined to discover the truth.

On vacation in the Luberon, a high ranking civil servant, in love with the good old fashioned thinking, has to put up with a bunch of troublemakers in his haven of tranquillity and prevent them from watering in circles. Wife, child and mother-in-law in the front row, brother-in-law and sister-in-law as bonus gifts. Add to that a terrible heat wave and a mother left alone in her apartment in Paris... The cocktail is boiling, even explosive... with this heat it will be hard to keep it cool.

A young HIV-positive man returns to his birthplace in Québec and tries to live life as fully as possible, rejecting self-pity and alienating his over-protective mother.

The Castle of Olive Trees is the ancestral home of the "Laborie de Sauveterre". Located at "Châteauneuf-du-Pape", it holds many mysteries and legends. Like every summer "Estelle Laborie" goes there to take some time off. But this summer she take an important decision: run from Paris and stay here at the castle definitively. Little does she knows that her arrival will awake a lot of drama and secrets, beginning with this enigmatic "Pierre Séverin" who wants to demolish the castle to the ground, to make an amusement parc "Cigaleland". She will learn unfortunately that this "Pierre Séverin" is also knowned as "Marceau" the little boy of the steward of the castle when her father was the master of the domain. That steward also died in terrible circumstance. However Estelle decides to face this vengeance and save the castle with the aid of archaeologist "Raphaël Fauconnier"...

Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely young man from an Arabic country with an obsession with death? On the other hand, why is the previously cheery Parisian teenager Nathalie Belfond throwing fits and speaking in Arabic? Her strange behavior began with the appearance of a caped and cadaverous man outside her window. Mr. & Mrs. Belfond have their hands full trying to sort this mess out, in this extremely unusual and award-winning comedy which puts a new wrinkle on the vampire mythos.

Eight children of a wrecker live together on a strange island, in a supernatural happiness. Until their little paradise is disturbed when an old lady is discovered murdered there. They then embark on the investigation in search of the truth.

Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.

토마스는 파리최대의 백화점 사장인 어머니, 외할아버지와 함께 행복하게 살면서 온갖 장난감을 다 가지고 있지만, 크리스마스가 다가오자 산타클로스에게 새 장난감을 달라는 편지를 쓴다. 그리고는 산타클로스를 보겠다는 결심으로, 집안의 움직임을 감시하는 온갖 장치를 설치하고 산타클로스를 기다린다. 크리스마스 저녁, 산타클로스가 나타나지만, 그는 백화점에서 파면된 데 앙심을 품은 임시고용자였다. 그가 짖어 대는 개를 죽이는 것을 본 토마스는, 아이들이 자지 않고 산타클로스를 기다리면 마귀를 보낸다던 엄마의 말을 생각하고 떨지만, 반격을 결심하고...

어린 시절 영화가 세상의 전부였던 소년 토토는 학교 수업을 마치면 마을 광장에 있는 낡은 시네마 천국이라는 극장으로 달려가 영사 기사 알프레도와 친구로 지내며 어깨너머로 영사기술을 배운다. 어느 날 관객들을 위해 광장에서 야외 상영을 해주던 알프레도가 그만 화재 사고로 실명하게 되고, 토토가 그의 뒤를 이어 시네마 천국의 영상기사로 일하게 된다. 실명한 후에도 토토의 친구이자 아버지로 든든한 정신적 지주가 되어준 알프레도는 청년이 된 토토가 사랑하는 여자 엘레나의 부모님의 반대로 좌절하자 넓은 세상으로 나가서 더 많은 것을 배우라며 권유하는데...

A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.

In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of a journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) who sets out to discover exactly what happened to the man and whether or not he is still alive. The biggest lead he has is the millionaire's attractive mistress (Brigitte Fossey), and the story takes off from there.

Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans to leave for her place in France. Old wounds between Isabelle and her parents open around Isabelle's life style. It's also apparent that Isabelle's mother, Paula, is unhappy - with her husband and with her youthful hopes dashed when she became pregnant with Isabelle. Unbeknownst to Isabelle, the co-star of the film she's just made has followed her, checked into a nearby hotel, and wants to begin an affair, even though he's married. Can Isabelle sort it out? What's best for Emily?

French film based on the story Der Findling by german author Heinrich von Kleist.

Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.

In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by women - his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his mother Nicole. Living in an exclusively feminine environment, the boy wishes more than anything else to have a masculine presence around. His dream comes true when he meets Jacques, who's madly in love with Nicole and who is about to completely turn the boy's life upside down.

Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party.

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.

여름 방학을 이용해 시골에서 즐기고 파리로 돌아오던 빅은 필립이라는 멋진 젊은이를 만나 마음이 끌리나 역에서 헤어진다. 집에 돌아온 빅은 친구 페네로프를 만나 이야기를 나누다 필립의 패스포드와 바뀐 것을 알고 다음날 페네로프와 필립을 찾아간다. 빅과 필립은 새로운 감회에 젖으며 페네로프는 필립을 보자 첫 눈에 반하나 필립이 빅을 좋아한다는 말을 듣고 충격을 받는다. 한편 빅과 필립은 록 콘써트에 가서 즐기는 등 사귀는 데 어느날 필립의 아파트로 첫사랑 매튜가 찾아와 빅과 필립사이엔 조그만 오해가 생기며 그일로 인해 필립은 시골 어머니에게로 떠난다. 빅이 역으로 달려갔을 때 열차안의 필립과 눈이 마주치며 순간 열차에서 뛰어내린 필립은 빅을 향해 뛰어가 둘은 힘껏 포옹한다.

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. What is missing is truth, specifically philosophical truth. Thus he philosophizes at great length, allowing director Zanussi plenty of room for didactic but little room for warmth. Leading ladies Brigette Fossey and Leslie Caron occasionally melt through the cold logic of Imperative.

Friendships and business do not mix, that's what we find with Theresa, Catherine and Alain, three longtime friends. Freshly graduated, they decided to start their own business, but work is scarce and a fight breaks out between the trio. Separated, married and scattered all over France, the once inseparable trio no longer keep in touch. But four years later, they decided to organize a big party for their reunion which serves as an opportunity for them to put things right and confess everything they have in their hearts.

The story about the life and loves of an amazing woman-Coco Chanel- who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary of all our creative icons.

파리로 전학 온 첫 날, 13살 소녀 빅(소피 마르소 분)은 새로운 친구들을 사귀며 즐거운 학교생활을 시작한다. 이제 막 이성에 눈을 뜨기 시작한 소녀들. 잘생긴 학교 선생님부터 학교 인기짱 남학생까지 그들의 이야기만으로도 시간가는 줄을 모른다. 13살 소녀, 첫사랑을 만나다! 어느 날 친구들의 초대로 가게 된 파티에서 잘생긴 친구 마튜(알렉산드르 스텔링 분)를 만나게 된다. 첫눈에 반한 그녀. 마튜는 디스코에 빠져있는 친구들 틈에서 빅에게 헤드폰을 씌워주며 둘만의 로맨틱한 시간을 만든다. 13살 그녀, 사랑이 어렵다! 사랑이 어려운 13살 소녀 빅, 그녀는 고민 끝에 친구처럼 지내는 할머니 푸펫트(故 데니즈 그레이 분)에게 사실을 고백하고 연애코치를 받는다. 첫사랑 그와의 짜릿한 밤을 위해 할머니와 작전을 짜고 드디어 감행하기에 이르는 데… 빛나고 아름다웠던 시절, 모든 것이 서툴지만 행복했던 이들의 사랑 이야기가 지금 시작된다.

브루노는 막 감방에서 풀려 나와 새로운 인생을 출발하고자 한다. 하지만 그의 첫 장애물은 아버지아의 동거에서 출발된다. 아버지처럼 목공 기술은 있지만 새롭게 직장을 구하는 일은 쉽지가 않다. 인력시장에 나가 일용직으로 받은 일당으로 아버지와 저녁을 먹다가 건너편 창녀들을 끌어들인다. 그 일로 아버지와 다투어 집에서 쫓겨나게 되고 일은 힘들어서 며칠 지나 관두게 된다. 운좋게 서점에 취직하게 되고 거기에서 약물 치료중인 여자를 사귀게 된다. 한편, 아버지와 엄마 친구가 엄마가 죽기 전부터 사귀고 있었다는 사실을 알게 되는데...

They are in their thirties. They have now children, an appartment, a work, cars... and still have loves, dreams and passions. They will meet each other, leave each other, under the eye of their kids.

계시록에나 등장할 법한 빙하시대를 맞은 미래의 지구. 세계에 또다시 빙하기가 닦쳐온다. 식량이 고갈되어 가는 가운데 추위 때문에 안에서만 생활하는 사람들은 긴장과 무료함 때문에 스릴 넘치는 사건을 찾는다. 그결과 생겨난 것이 한사람의 심판을 두고 5명이 서로를 죽이다가 끝까지 살아남는 자가 승리하게 되는 일명 '퀸테트'라는 살인 게임. 이 죽음의 도시에 에섹스란 사나이가 임신한 아내를 데리고 나타난다. 어렵사리 형 프란차의 집을 찾아간 그는 그곳에서 퀸테트의 존재를 알게 되나 관심을 두지 않는다. 그러나 누군가 프란차를 죽이기 위해 설치한 폭탄이 터지면서 죽음의 룰을 모른 채 게임을 즐기던 아내와 살인 표적이던 형이 즉사하고 만다. 분노한 에섹스는 잔인한 승부사가 되어 퀸테트의 룰을 따르기 시작하는데.

A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.

A young man who seems lost, Nicolas, has an appointment with her sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy childhood secret: their mother committed suicide when their father had instructed Nicolas to keep it. Since the father chased him and forbade Juliette to see him.

40대 초반에 세상을 떠난 베르트랑 모랑의 장례식이 거행된다. 장례식에는 베르트랑이 사랑했던 수많은 여인들이 참석한다. 놀라운 여성편력의 베르트랑은 어떤 여성을 만나든 그녀만의 매력을 찾아내고, 진심을 다해 사랑했다. 코믹한 터치의 현대판 카사노바 이야기.

Brigitte Fossey stars as a repressed young nurse who hopes that moving from the city to the country will open up new vistas in her life (thereby reversing the usual country-to-city route of most movie heroines!) She meets and falls in love with bachelor Jacques Serre, likewise a free spirit. Though Fossey and Serre are attracted to one another, both value their freedom too much to make a firm commitment. As they draw closer, the twosome compare their own lifestyles with those of the colorful country folk all around them.

On the hill in Saint-Cloud, in a broad street bordered by residences, a delivery man is going through the back of his van. He prepares the delivery: wine, water, alcohol... After checking the order he routinely loads the crate on his shoulder and strides under his load through a small delivery gate in the wall of a garden, he rings and enters... All the action will take place in one night, a single night, in this bourgeois house in Saint-Cloud.

Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males, fleeing the feminist 1970s. Soon, too, there arrives a squadron of nymphomaniac Amazons.

The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.

In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes, their sadness. Between Mr. Michel, very shy, Mrs. Lebris, a former actress, a former colonial soldier and a few others, a project was soon born. They arm themselves and organize a manhunt from which, voluntarily, no one will come out alive.

This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for them the resistance is simply a continuation of their prior activities. After the war, some of them continue to have a "resistance" mind-set. One of the stories concerns a love relationship between a Polish boy and a French girl who are thrown together because of their war efforts. After the war, they get together and reminisce.

장-클로드와 피에로는 여기저기 떠돌며 여자들을 희롱하고, 금품을 갈취한다. 길을 걷던 둘은 주차되어 있던 멋들어진 차를 훔친다. 신나게 드라이브를 즐긴 두 사람은 차를 돌려 놓으려 하지만, 총을 들고 위협하는 차의 주인과 마주한다. 장-클로드와 피에로는 엉겁결에 차는 물론, 차주와 함께 있던 마리-앙주까지 납치해 달아난다. 두 친구의 어처구니없는 행보에 범상치 않은 여인들이 함께 하게 된다. 블리에가 자신이 쓴 소설을 각색해 영화화했다. 선정적인 성 묘사, 도덕적 모호함으로 논쟁을 불러일으키기도 했다. (2017 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 서머 스페셜 2017)

Mathieu is collected from the hospital by his wife, and dropped of at an apartment. His wife returns home to their son. The next time she sees him, he confesses that he is in love with another woman. This woman, who is identical to his wife, visits him. After making love, she leaves. She then returns. Mathieu shoots her - or does he shoot a mirror?

1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Raphael is obsessed by the death, and wait for it by chasing women and drinking. He first tries to seduce her, but is impressed by her and gives up. But Aurore felt in love with him, and tries not to look as inacessible. A romantic drama, with dispair, cynism, disgust for life and love.

알제리 전쟁이 끝난 후 마르세이유 공항에 도착한 군의관 디노 바령(알랑 드롱 분)은 같은 제대군인 프란스 프로프(찰슨 브론슨 분)를 알게 된다. 한편 이사벨은 죽어가고 있는 자기 아버지를 위해 자기 아버지 소유 병원의 금고를 털고자 한다.

Rural France, the 1890s. Always in motion, Augustin wanders three times. First, as a youth, while a boarder near Bourges, he's lost in the woods and finds a chateau where an engagement party's in progress: there he falls eternally in love with Yvonne and she with him. Back at school, he hears she is in Paris, so he follows in a vain search and meets a woman, jilted by her lover. In the countryside a few year's later, Augustin's friend François finds Yvonne and brings Augustin to her. They marry, but the next day, Augustin leaves to fulfill a youthful promise he made to Yvonne's brother. François comforts the pregnant Yvonne as they await Augustin's return.

Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.

1940년 6월 남프랑스의 농촌 마을에 파리에서 피난오다 공습으로 부모를 잃고 죽은 강아지를 안고 헤매던 소녀 폴레트는 근처 어느 농가에 들어선다. 그곳은 전쟁과는 아무 상관이 없다는 듯 평화롭고 한적한 곳이었다. 그 농가의 아들 미셀은 고아가 된 폴레트를 불쌍하게 생각하고 자기 집으로 데려와 미셀과 함께 강아지를 묻어준 뒤 무덤에 십자가를 세워준다. 살아있는 것이 죽었을 때는 이렇게 묻어주는 것이라고 알게 된 뽈레트는 새든, 벌레든 죽은 동물을 모아 무덤을 만들고 십자가를 세워준다. 무덤은 점점 늘어가고 십자가가 더욱 많이 필요해지자 미셀은 교회 제단에 놓여진 십자가를 훔치려 하고, 거기에 그치지 않고 형의 묘지에서 뽑아온다. 그러던 어느날, 고아수용소로 데려가기 위해 적십자의 조사반이 파견나온다. 이때 아버지는 미셀과 십자가가 있는 장소를 알려주면 폴레트를 그들에게 넘기지 않겠다는 약속을 하지만, 결국 이를 어기고 폴레트는 조사반에 넘긴다. 미셀은 폴레트를 위해 아름답게 만들었던 방앗간의 묘지를 모두 망거뜨리며 울분을 터뜨린다. 한편, 전쟁 고아라는 딱지를 붙이고 혼잡한 정류장 대합실 구석에 서 있던 뽈레트는 어디선가 미셀이라고 부르는 소리를 듣고 계속 미셀과 엄마를 외치며 군중들 속으로 사라진다.