Françoise Berd
Nascimento : 1923-03-02, Saint-Pacome, Québec, Canada
Morte : 2001-08-10
História
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
Uma psiquiatra apontada pela corte é encarregada de avaliar a jovem freira Agnes, cujo bebê foi encontrado estrangulado. Agnes alega que foi uma concepção sem sexo e não se lembra de ter dado à luz.
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
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
Concierge
O filme é ambientado durante a década de 1930: a ocasião é o primeiro encontro entre Mussolini e Hitler. Deixado sozinho em sua casa quando o marido cortiço fascista foge para participar do evento histórico, Sophia Loren inicia uma amizade com seu vizinho misterioso Mastroianni. Como o dia segues em noite, Loren e Mastroianni desenvolver uma relação muito especial que vai alterar radicalmente tanto de suas perspectivas sobre a vida.
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.
