Geneviève Bujold
Nascimento : 1942-07-01, Montréal, Québec, Canada
História
Geneviève Bujold (born July 1, 1942) is a Canadian stage and screen actress, best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress and was nominated for an Academy Award.
She made her TV debut with Le square (1963), a 60-minute TV film based on a play by Marguerite Duras, co-starring Georges Groulx. Her Canadian feature film debut was in Amanita Pestilens (1963).
She appeared in Michel Brault's film Between Salt and Sweet Water (1967), then went to New York to play the title role in a production of Saint Joan (1967) for Hallmark Hall of Fame on American TV. Although she said she preferred film most and television least out of all the mediums, she received great acclaim for this including an Emmy nomination.
In Canada, she starred in Isabel (1968), written and directed by her then-husband Paul Almond. It was one of the first Canadian films to be picked up for distribution by a major Hollywood studio. International recognition came in 1969, when she starred as Anne Boleyn in Charles Jarrott's film Anne of the Thousand Days, with Richard Burton. Producer Hal B. Wallis cast her after seeing her in Isabel. For her performance, she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. It was released by Universal who signed her to a three-picture contract.
Her other film credits include The Trojan Women (1971), Earthquake (1974), Obsession (1976), Coma (1978) with Michael Douglas, Murder by Decree (1979), Tightrope (1984) with Clint Eastwood, Choose Me (1984), and Dead Ringers (1988) with Jeremy Irons.
She had supporting roles in The Adventures of Pinocchio (1995), The House of Yes (1997), Last Night (1998), You Can Thank Me Later (1998), Eye of the Beholder (1999), The Bookfair Murders (2000), Children of My Heart (2001) and Alex in Wonder (2001).
Her later appearances include Jericho Mansions (2003), Finding Home (2004), Downtown: A Street Tale (2004), By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005), Disappearances (2006), Deliver Me (2006), The Trotsky (2009), For the Love of God (2011), Still Mine (2012), Northern Borders (2013), and Chorus (2015).
She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in Saint Joan. She was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award For her portrayal of Irene in Still Mine. She won three Canadian Film Awards for Best Actress for her roles in the films Isabel, The Act of the Heart, and Kamouraska. She won a Prix Gemeaux Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Paper Wedding, and was nominated for Best Actress for her role in the film L'Emprise. She won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Murder By Decree, and was nominated for four more Genie Awards for her roles in Final Assignment, Dead Ringers, My Friend Max, and Last Night.
Gabrielle
A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.
Abiah Kittredge
In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets.
Self (archive footage)
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Saya (voice)
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Sœur Cécile (72 ans)
Montréal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mother who is emotional and too worried. But there is also love at first sight between Sister Cecilia and Father Malachy. Between human love and the love of God, which will prevail? Written by
Self
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Denise Archambault
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Self (archive footage)
Montreal of another time is reborn into screen through images from a hundred of movies and shorts produced by the National Film Board of Canada while at its first four decades of existence. Port activities, musical shows, presence of Church, labors life, hockey fever and the best years of "Red Light" are few of the chapters of this collective family album.
Cordelia
No inverno de 1932, durante a Lei seca, Quebec Bill Bohomme tenta manter protegida sua criação de gado. Com o rigor do inverno Quebec Bil decide se envolver no esquema de contrabando de bebidas da família.
Irène
After spending a decade in prison, Annie returns to her hometown, and tries to reconnect with her now-adolescent daughter Sophie.
Rose Evangelista
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Aimee Levesque
A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
Claire Niveau (archive footage)
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
Katie
Amanda quer vender a casa que herdou da sua avó. Mas quando começa a arrumar as coisas dela, descobre muito mais sobre sua família, reavalia sua vida e seus valores.
Lily Melnick
A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.
Colette Lasalle
Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice arrives in her hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec to commence her investigation. Soon confronted by numerous figures from her past, the unusual weather and inexplicable behavior of the citizens lead Alice to believe that something beyond her comprehension is occurring to her old hometown...
Self
A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine, A toute prendre and Kamouraska: Power of Passion. Amidst the rise of French-Canadian identity and the political struggles of the '60s, Jutra was at the forefront of a group of artists dedicated to social change and attacking taboo.
Self
A documentary about the making of 1976's "Obsession" featuring interviews with director Brian De Palma, stars Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold and more.
Natalie
A girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents.
Margaret Dourie Cantor
Mystery starring Samantha Bond, Linda Kash, Bernd Michael Lade
Dr. Brault
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Joelle
In this Canadian comedy-drama, Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital -- failed writer Eli, neurotic Susan, and successful theatrical producer Edward. An onslaught of one-liners find targets amid sibling rivalries and angst-ridden animosities.
Mrs. Carlton
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Mrs. Pascal
Neste clássico do humor negro, uma mulher mentalmente desequilibrada, que imagina ser Jacqueline Kennedy, envolve-se em uma vingança assassina quando seu irmão volta para casa no Dia de Ação de Graças e revela estar noivo. O problema com sua personalidade se revela menos grave que o do ciúme de seu irmão, mas o que acontece depois deixa claro que ela não é a única perturbada da família.
Suzanne St. Laurent
Suzanne, a single parent and succesful lawyer, returns home to find her daughter missing. About to call the police, she is confronted by a disembodied voice warning her that if she attempts to leave or seek help, her daughter will die. Suzanne discovers she is being monitored through surveillance cameras operated by the tyrannical voice. The voice informs her that in order for her daughter to live, Suzanne must commit suicide. In a race against time Suzanne must think of a scheme to get a message to the outside world...
Leona
Um velho carpinteiro solitário cria um boneco de madeira para lhe fazer companhia. Quando ganha vida, Pinocchio comporta-se como um verdadeiro traquina e envolve-se em várias confusões.
Self
A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends, fellow actors and crew members who have worked with him over the years.
Marie-Alexandrine Brabant
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
Irene Betts
A teenage boy coming to grips with his mother's insanity forms an unlikely friendship with a classmate on the run for murder.
Eva
Nos anos 50, adolescente tem de superar a morte da mãe, enquanto é obrigado a mudar com o pai e a madrasta para uma fazenda. Mas seus sentimentos podem ser amenizados (ou não) quando passa a se envolver com uma mulher mais velha.
Rick's Mother
Crazy Los Angeles. Work is an hour away, down a crammed six-lane freeway. It is always sunny, but the sun looks like a sickly blemish on the smog. Everyone's out to look beautiful and make money. And a kid named Rick fits right in. The Gaspé coast. Work is five minutes away on a tractor seat. When the sun shines, the ocean is set ablaze, and the scent of pine fills the crisp country air. People here just try to make ends meet, but they know how to laugh from the gut and to show each other they care. This is were Rick's father James grew up, but Rick has never been here. When Rick learns that he has inherited the ancestral farm, and that his father wants him to go to Gaspé to bury the uncle who left Rick this legacy, an extraordinary odyssey begins. Father and son start out as different from each other as Gaspé and Los Angeles, but in the process, Rick discovers manhood and James discovers fatherhood.
Marie Aubriac
Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer.
Rachel Roux
When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to a man named Harlan Erickson, a long-lost brother of the town's leading citizen.
Madeline
Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He arrives from the City to find that his mother has finally left his alcoholic and abusive father and now lives among the Indians, Guy's childhood friends and neighbours. He also discovers friction between the white farmers and the local Indians, now faced with the choice of selling or retaining their land. A choice made harder by poverty. Guy's boyhood friend, Tom Redfox, leads those Indians who wish to keep their land. Against the background of ensuing confrontation, Guy becomes reacquainted with his estranged parents, his childhood friends and old values, leading to a tragedy that affect the whole community.
Claire Rocheleau
A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.
Claire Niveau
Os gêmeos idênticos Beverly e Elliot, brilhantes ginecologistas canadenses, pesquisam a fertilidade feminina em sua clínica particular. A atriz Claire Nivean, que não tem filhos, procura auxílio na famosa Clínica Mantle. Diagnosticada por Beverly como possuidora de um útero tricervical, Claire deve perder a esperança de engravidar. O arrogante Elliot fica fascinado pelo masoquismo da atriz e dorme com ela. Como é costume deles compartilharem as pacientes, encoraja o irmão a tomar seu lugar. Os dois passam a se revezar nas visitas a Claire, mas o tímido Beverly se apaixona pela atriz e, influenciado por ela, começa a usar drogas.
Libby Valentin
Nos anos 20, o artista plástico Nick Hart luta para sobreviver do seu ofício numa comunidade de expatriados americanos em Paris, onde acaba se envolvendo com uma rica colecionadora num obscuro esquema de falsificação de obras de arte.
Wanda
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.
Nancy
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
Beryl Thibodeaux
Em Nova Orleans o detetive Wes Block (Clint Eastwood) é colocado no caso de um serial killer que tem como vítimas mulheres jovens e belas, as quais ele estupra e mata. As mortes assumem um caráter pessoal quando o criminoso escolhe pessoas conhecidas de Wes como vítimas, sendo que até mesmo suas filhas estão na mira do assassino. Paralelamente Wes, que é divorciado, se envolve com Beryl Thibodeaux (Geneviève Bujold) e ela também se torna uma provável vítima.
Clara
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
Elizabeth Beaufort
In the 19th century, a wealthy Northern woman marries a Louisiana plantation owner and then becomes suspicious about his first wife's death.
Nicole Thomson
An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat.
Bernadette Lafleur
Quando um avião transportando vários animais faz um pouso forçado em uma ilha deserta, a única chance de escapar é converter o avião em um barco.
Quando Noah Dugan concorda em levar a missionária Bernadette Lafleur e sua carga de animais para uma ilha remota, é só porque ele está fugindo de uma dupla de bookmakers. O que nenhum deles sabe é que dois dos jovens estudantes da Miss Lafleur se juntaram clandestinamente aos animais e que o rádio transistor da Srta. Lafleur interferiu nos instrumentos do avião e agora eles todos estão fora do rumo. Após um pouso forçado em uma ilha remota, Dugan, Bernadette, Bobby e Julie descobrem que não estão sozinhos. Juntamente com dois soldados japoneses que estão encalhados na ilha desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial, eles devem transformar o avião em um barco navegável se eles quiserem voltar para casa. Quando Bobby e Julie insistem que não podem deixar os animais para trás, o avião convertido realmente se torna uma segunda Arca de Noé.
Annie Crook
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Dez casos. Agora 12. Por que pacientes jovens e saudáveis são submetidos para cirurgia no Boston Memorial Hospital e terminam ligados a uma máquina? A Dra. Susan Wheeler quer saber.
Jeanne Leroy née Perriere
Claude Lelouch's Another Man, Another Chance begins in France in 1870. Napoleon III has just lost the war against Prussia and left the country in poverty. Young Jeanne (Genevieve Bujold) falls in love with photographer Francis (Francis Huster), who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild west, they build up a small photo shop. Meanwhile animal doctor David (James Caan) lives on his lonesome farm together with his unlucky wife. It takes years and two tragic accidents until Jeanne and David meet. She has already decided to return to France as soon as possible, but love, and fate, have other plans.
Maritza
A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.
Elizabeth Courtland / Sandra Portinari
Após o sequestro e morte de sua esposa,um homem encontra uma segunda chance numa mullher que se parece muito com sua esposa. Mas tudo se complica quando decidem se casar.
Jane Barnet
A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
Cleopatra
Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.
Marie-Charlotte Pontalec
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
Denise Marshall
Um jovem sismologista, usando os ensinamentos de um especialista, prevê um tremor de ampla magnitude em Los Angeles, mas ninguém lhe dá a devida atenção. A vida das pessoas e de todos os moradores da cidade será tragicamente atingida pelo maior terremoto que a cidade já viu e, apesar de pequenos tremores prenunciarem a catástrofe, a população não pressente a tragédia que está para acontecer.
Élisabeth
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.
Sagueney
A woman with a troubled past is saved from drowning in a river and brought to a strange community hidden in the woods.
Cassandra
In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, fears being enslaved by her Greek masters, while Helen of Troy risks being executed. Astyanax also becomes the focus of the Greeks' attention as the last male heir of the Trojan royal family.
Martha Hayes
A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
Writer
Short film about the underground part, both geographical and social, of the city of Montreal, through the obsession of a business magnate for a young woman.
Short film about the underground part, both geographical and social, of the city of Montreal, through the obsession of a business magnate for a young woman.
Anne Boleyn
O rei Henrique VIII (Richard Burton) apaixona-se pela jovem Anna Bolena (Geneviève Bujold). Casado com Catarina de Aragão, que não lhe deu um herdeiro homem, não mede esforços para ficar com Anna, rompendo com a Igreja Católica e criando a Igreja Anglicana. Mas Anna também não consegue lhe dar seu tão esperado filho homem. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Isabel
A woman believes she is beginning to lose her mind when she begins seeing ghosts and spirits.
Geneviève
A young singer-songwriter abandons his life in his hometown and moves to the city to make it big. He achieves fame, but it comes at a price.
Charlotte
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.
Coquelicot
Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, Charles é enviado à uma cidade da França para desativar uma bomba colocada lá pelos alemães. No entanto Charles é perseguido por alguns alemães e vai parar em um hospício onde os presos se convencem de que ele é o “Rei de Copas”. Sentindo-se na obrigação de ajudar os loucos, ele decide levá-los para fora da cidade.
Music
This short 1966 documentary dedicated "to all victims of intolerance” depicts the dawn of skateboarding in Montreal. A new activity frowned upon by police and adults, skateboarding gave youngsters a thrilling sensation of speed and freedom. This film - the first Canadian documentary ever made about the sport - captures the exuberance of boys and girls having the time of their lives in free-wheeling downhill locomotion.
Nadine Sallanches
Um grupo de espanhóis refugiados na França tenta organizar protestos contra o governo em Madri. Sua rede está sob constante ameaça pela polícia espanhola e alguns deles foram recentemente presos. O personagem principal Diego (Yves Montand) dedicou toda a sua vida à batalha, mas ele se sente afastado para sempre. Ele não encontra seu lugar nem em seu país adotivo (França) nem no amor. Mas este filme não é sobre a história, é sobre estilo. Alain Resnais tem uma abordagem original neste filme e isso é o que faz com que esse filme valha a pena ser assistido. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Geneviève
Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them the sweet intensity and disillusionment of first love.
Geneviève
A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spite of the stylistic peculiarities of the filmmakers, we find in each of them the same desire not to affirm anything, not to judge, but to quite simply show.
In this short fiction film, Marie has been living in the midst of a nightmare since the accident of Bernard, her brother. Clinging excessively to this handicapped being, she wants to take charge of it. Étienne, her fiancé, has no taste for sacrifice. He reproaches Marie for languishing in her adolescence. Love will prevail. In a definitive gesture, Marie will free herself from the bonds that still held her back to her childhood.
Sophie Martin
A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard.
Woman (uncredited)
Em 1890, o Cancan ainda está na moda, mas nem os shows da dançarina Lola ajudam o Café Le Paravent Chinois a sair da decadência. Henri, amante de Lola e dono do Café, tem a idéia de popularizar a dança no bairro boêmio de Montmarte. Ele conhece Nini, uma lavadeira com o dom natural da dança. Os problemas começam quando Lola fica enciumada com Nini.
