Patrick Bruel
Nascimento : 1959-05-14, Tlemcen, Oran, France [now Algeria]
História
Patrick Maurice Benguigui (born 14 May 1959), better known by his stage name Patrick Bruel, is a French singer-songwriter, actor and professional poker player.
Patrick is the son of Pierre Benguigui and Augusta Kammoun, daughter of Elie and Céline ben Sidoun.
In his youth, Bruel aspired to be a football player, but decided instead to pursue singing after seeing Michel Sardou in 1975. His first success came as an actor, in 1979's Le Coup de sirocco. He continued acting in films, on television, and in the theater while pursuing his singing career. His first single, "Vide" ("Empty"), released in 1982, was not a success, but the follow-up, "Marre de cette nana-là" ("Fed up with that chick"), was a hit.
In 2003, just before his partner, the writer and playwright Amanda Sthers, gave birth to his first child, Oscar, on 19 August, he changed his name to Bruel-Benguigui, combining his stage name with his birth name. On 21 September 2004, he wed the then 26-year-old Sthers; it was his first marriage. His second child, Léon, was born on 28 September 2005. The couple separated in 2007.
As of 2004, Bruel has acted in more than forty television and film productions, and has made five studio albums and several live albums. In 2002, Bruel released Entre Deux, a double CD of classic chanson that features duets with Charles Aznavour, Jean-Louis Aubert, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Alain Souchon and Renaud, among others. It sold two million copies and made Bruel France's best paid singer of the year. At the beginning of 2005, in response to the South Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, Bruel wrote the song "Et puis la terre" with Marie-Florence Gros, with whom he had begun a long-term collaboration in 1998, to benefit the Red Cross. His latest album, "Des souvenirs devant", was his fourth chart-topper in France.
Bruel is a world-class professional poker player. He won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 1998 for the $5,000 Limit Hold'em event. As of 2009. he has earned more than $900,000 in tournament play, of which his ten cash winnings at the WSOP account for $411,659. He also comments on the World Poker Tour in France.
In April 2020 he announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19.
Bruel has been a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 1993.
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This exceptional documentary, rich in anecdotes and revelations thanks to the rare testimonies of his family (his wife, his sister...) and his closest friends (such as Patrick Bruel, Kad Mérad or Pascal Obispo), you will discover all the secrets of the man behind this extraordinary artist. With a career spanning 35 years, over 15 million albums sold and hits that have become cult favorites, Florent Pagny, the emblematic coach of the show The Voice, is in the pantheon of French song. However, you will discover that he almost lost everything several times... How did he get up each time to build this immense career? And above all, how did he overcome the ordeal of the announcement of his cancer?
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Gilles Fontaine
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.
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César Montesiho
Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) e César (Patrick Bruel) são dois grandes amigos, daqueles que nutrem um forte laço desde os tempos da infância. Por uma ironia do destino e um mal-entendido, César acredita que Arthur irá morrer dentro de pouco tempo, vítima de câncer. Com o objetivo de transformar os últimos momentos do amigo em algo muito especial, ele decide ficar ao seu lado para que possam fazer juntos tudo o que o outro deseja, enquanto isso é possível. O único detalhe que César ainda não sabe que é justamente ele o paciente terminal e Arthur reluta em contar e estragar a felicidade do amigo. Dos mesmos criadores do sucesso Qual o Nome do Bebê? (2012).
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Alongside his impertinent puppet, ventriloquist Jeff Panacloc celebrates Christmas with humour, surrounded by personalities from music, cinema and TV hosts.
Vincenzo
Vincent was born near Paris, but has cut off every link with his roots. Maria, fifteen years younger, grew up in Ostia, but no longer sees her family. Together they form a couple that does not seem to need anyone. They lead a secluded life in contemporary Rome, indolent and distracted. Furthermore, Vincent and Maria are good at blending in with their environment. When they return home, they make love with the passion of young lovers in a suburban apartment that she has carefully furnished. Yet, on closer inspection, their everyday life betrays what lies behind their seemingly normal appearance: a project carried out by him with a clear determination and accepted by her only by virtue of unconditional love. A plan to help couples who cannot have children. Maria decides that it is time to create a real family. This choice has an inevitable consequence: the rebellion against Vincent, the man of her life.
O cardiologista Harry Rosenmerch (James Caan) deixa sua família para criar porcos em Israel, onde faz amizade com um rabino (Tom Hollander). De longe, ele mantém uma relação difícil com seu filho David, que recentemente se assumiu gay, com a ex-esposa Monica (Rosanna Arquette) e com a filha Annabelle (Efrat Dor). Em certo momento, Monica descobre um câncer em estado avançado e decide relembrar a história de amor que viveu com Harry no passado.
Roman
Durante um período de ocupação nazista na França, os jovens irmãos judeus Maurice e Joseph embarcam em uma aventura para escapar dos nazistas. Em meio a invasão e a perseguição, eles se monstram espertos, corajosos e inteligentes em sua escapada.
Ange
Apesar de algumas dores nas costas, depois de uma noitada, Ange Pagani um arquiteto bem sucedido e mulherengo está tendo um dia perfeitamente normal. Até que uma mulher muito agitada chamada Gabrielle aparece em seu escritório, alegando que seu filho teria engravidado a sua filha. O problema é que, Ange não tem filho! Ele faz de tudo para evitar Gabrielle, mas por algum motivo, encontra-se irresistivelmente atraído por esta mãe solteira causando estragos em sua vida. Quando o bebê nasce, Ange sente a sensação da paternidade, enquanto Gabrielle, tenta manter sua vida da mesma forma. Uma relação familiar que envolve todos, e eles descobrem algo que nunca sentiram, o Amor Incondicional.
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Lambert
Esta comédia mostra um encontro inesperado entre Judith, uma mulher que vive abertamente a sua sexualidade mantendo casos com diversos homens, e Lambert, um viciado em sexo que tenta justamente pensar em outra coisa e conter os seus desejos. Mas quando Judith passa a trabalhar como assistente no consultório de Lambert, a situação não vai ficar muito fácil para nenhum dos dois.
Philippe Dupin
Iris (Emmanuelle Béart), uma socialite francesa, contrata como “Ghost Writer” sua tímida irmã Josephine (Julie Depardieu), pesquisadora especialista em Idade Média. O sucesso do livro faz de Iris famosa e desperta a transformação da irmã.
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On Saturday, November 24, 2012, Celine Dion appeared in the TV special 'Celine Dion : le grand show', broadcast live on the French channel France 2 and hosted by Michel Drucker and Veronic DiCaire, at the Studios d'Aubervilliers, near Paris, France.
Vincent
Com mais de quarenta anos de idade, Vincent (Patrick Bruel) vai ser pai pela primeira vez. Radiante, ele é convidado pela irmã e o cunhado para jantar, em companhia de sua esposa e de um amigo de infância. Enquanto a esposa não chega, os amigos começam a fazer perguntas sobre a paternidade, até chegar à inevitável questão sobre o nome do bebê. Quando Vincent finalmente anuncia o nome escolhido, o caos se instala na família
Victor
Alice (Alice Taglioni) é uma mulher bonita e apaixonada pelo seu trabalho como farmacêutica, seu único problema é que continua solteira. Ela se refugia do mundo com a paixão por Woody Allen, chegando ao ponto de recomendar seus filmes às pessoas que procuram a farmácia em busca de algum medicamento e até mesmo conversar com o diretor, em seus pensamentos. A família de Alice insiste em lhe arranjar pretendentes, mas ela constantemente ignora os apelos da família para que se case. No entanto, o encontro com Victor (Patrick Bruel) pode mudar a sua vida...
Vincent
Com mais de quarenta anos de idade, Vincent (Patrick Bruel) vai ser pai pela primeira vez. Radiante, ele é convidado pela irmã e o cunhado para jantar, em companhia de sua esposa e de um amigo de infância. Enquanto a esposa não chega, os amigos começam a fazer perguntas sobre a paternidade, até chegar à inevitável questão sobre o nome do bebê. Quando Vincent finalmente anuncia o nome escolhido, o caos se instala na família.
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On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that would sum up all the earlier ones. D'un film à l'autre is hence a kind of anthology of the films produced Les Films 13 since the 1960s (short and feature films written and directed for the main part by Claude Lelouch), a best-of of half a century of cinema, going from Le Propre de l'homme to What Love May Bring. A biography in images of a filmmaker as admired as he is criticized. In reality, D'un film à l'autre is more than a series of film excerpts, interviews, and making-of documents (some of which possess an undeniable historical value, like that from A Man and A Woman, or the final performances of Patrick Dewaere).
Dans l’œil des Enfoirés est le vingt-et-unième album des Enfoirés, enregistré lors de leurs sept concerts à l’Arena Montpellier du mercredi 26 janvier au lundi 31 janvier 2011.
Dan Hayoun
Um dos cinco irmãos que havia se afastado da família retorna, agora perseguido por um bando de traficantes. Ele revela um segredo, selando a união dos irmãos que juntos buscam vingança pelo assassinato do pai.
Alain
Os chamados amigos em um jantar acabam agindo como uma família disfuncional.
Maxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
David Levin
Durante a criação do Estado de Israel em 1948, o envolvimento de dois jovens amigos norte-americanos, um de origem judaica e o outro de origem árabe, leva-os das ruas de Nova York para a Terra Santa, onde arriscam as suas vidas e realizam incríveis sacrifícios para que possam lutar por aquilo em que acreditam.
Jacques Sibaud
Uma juíza investiga executivo suspeito de se envolver em esquema de fraudes. Conforme avança, sua investigação a leva ao alto escalão do governo e ela se perde em um mundo de suborno e corrupção.
Nelson
Mikel Lejarza, também conhecido como "Lobo", foi um agente dos serviços secretos espanhóis que conseguiu se infiltrar na ETA entre 1973 e 1975. Ele levou à queda de cerca de 150 ativistas e colaboradores, incluindo os membros mais proeminentes dos comandos especiais e os principais Liderança. A "Operação Lobo" foi um golpe para a organização terrorista no momento em que seus ataques sangrentos estavam se tornando a desculpa perfeita para os setores mais involucionistas do regime de Franco tentarem impedir o estabelecimento da democracia.
Alex
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair with a man whom she hadn't seen in twelve years.
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Jacques
Lucie, who works as a white-hot fashion model, exhibits a dominant, often controlling, "Type A" personality, whereas identical twin Marie consistently projects a backward, reserved, laconic and unassuming attitude. When Lucie receives a covetable French recording contract, a significant problem stands in her way: the inability to sing. Marie possesses the voice of an angel, however, and quickly jets off to Paris to stand in for her sister, unannounced - little realizing the dangerous and even violent string of consequences that she is igniting.
Laurent
A woman, scared by motherhood and her new born baby, runs away from her home and family to find a shelter at her upstairs neighbour's place.
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Martin
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.
Patrick Bruel
In this French comedy-drama, actor Angelo Bastiani installs satellite dishes when not auditioning for films. After being told he's not convincing enough for a role in a gangster flick, Ange dons a mask and stages a parking-lot holdup, terrifying the film's director and casting director to prove his point.
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Sam Bellamy
In this French crime film, set during the time of the Gulf War, an elderly German tourist is murdered in Paris by junk dealer Joseph Katz (Pinkas Braun), a friend of Paris detective Sam Bellamy (singer Patrick Bruel). Romantically involved with the victim's daughter Emma Guter (Isabella Ferrari), Bellamy covers up the crime he witnessed. Joseph then mysteriously vanishes, and Bellamy heads for Berlin where the victim's possessions are auctioned. After Bellamy finds the source of the well-hidden traffic in art stolen by Nazis from French Jews, he discovers a Nazi war criminal is blackmailing past associates. Incorporating background from journalist Hector Feliciano's Lost Museum, the film is adapted from Guy Konopnicki's novel, Pas de Kaddish pour Sylberstein (No Kaddish for Sylberstein).
François Perrin
A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin he's fascinated with. He follows Perrin to his flat and although Perrin is not very enthusiastic about so much interest in his person, he lets the shaman spend the night in his flat. After an official meeting on the next day being part of the PR campaign the shaman suffers from a heart attack. Hardly being able to speak and laying in a hospital bed he demands to see Perrin. The latter is not very interested in meeting the shaman again. However it looks like it is to late for animosities as the shaman and Perrin seem to be tied mentally somehow since they've met in the elevator.
Louis
Sabrina é filha do chofer da rica família Larrabee. Ela passa dois anos em Paris e volta como uma mulher sofisticada, atraindo a atenção de David, o caçula dos Larrabee, por quem sempre foi apaixonada. Linus, o mais velho, tenta impedir o romance.
Le premier orateur
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life - but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories - Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life - are told in parallel until they come together in the end when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students.
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Julien Segal
A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.
Cristophe Vade
A young French police inspector, Christophe Vade, is assigned to investigate some mysterious murders in a village in the Swiss Alps. His superior is a man named Thurston, who uses some unorthodox methods to fight crime. Vade’s investigations lead him to a wealthy industrialist, Gardella, a dangerous and powerful man.
Philippe
Philippe e Daniel vão de férias para o sudeste da Ásia, onde se encontram com Hans, um morador da região que atua como guia. Antes de partirem de volta para Paris, os dois dão a Hans de presente o haxixe nativo que sobrou. Um ano e meio depois, um advogado da Anistia Internacional aparece e informa que Hans foi preso por posse de drogas logo após a partida deles e agora foi condenado à morte. Philippe e Daniel têm a chance de ajudar Hans confessando suas ações às autoridades, compartilhando a culpa pelo crime e aceitando os termos da prisão. Pressão adicional é aplicada pela ex-namorada de Hans, com o argumento de que a vida em jogo é a vida de Hans. Phillipe e Daniel afirmam que suas vidas estão em jogo também.
Simon Atlan
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
Séraphin Monge
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month old baby, was spared. Whilst Sébastien is being seduced by Charmaine, Dupin is killed by someone else. Sébastien’s next victim, the miller Didon Pujol, is also murdered before he has a chance to take his revenge. Sébastien realises that someone is watching his every move and is going to extraordinary lengths to protect him. But who, and why..?
Mozart
On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?
The musician
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
Wanis
In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.
Frédéric
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.
Dany
Three times divorced, a man consoles himself with another version of success, that of money.
Le guitariste du métro
Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York.
Pierre-Marie Labrouche
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.
Philippe
The students of a prestigious law school try their best to mess things up.
François
Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night guards to occupy his insomnia. That's how he is brought one night to help a neighbor, Nadine Foulon, victim of discomfort in the elevator. It turns out that Nadine is also going through a difficult time, since her companion, Terry, a singer-guitarist, has left her. A professional photographer, she can not forget it and has since oscillated between depression and bulimia. Gathered by their pains of heart, these two beings will, with the wire of the confidences, become more intimate ...
Chanteur d'un groupe de banlieue
Paulo Narboni
A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France.
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