Dennis Berry
Directing
Biography
Dennis Charles Berry was an American-French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was the son of director John Berry. Berry was born on August 11, 1944 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Last Song (1987), Stargate SG-1 (1997) and Highlander (1992). He was married to Anna Karina and Jean Seberg. He died on June 12, 2021 in Paris, France.
Born: August 11, 1944
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For
Borsalino
In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
La Collectionneuse
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
L'Amour fou
A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.
Jean Seberg Forever
French documentary about the life of American actress and New Wave icon Jean Seberg.
Singapore, Singapore
Singapore. Following the mysterious disappearance of several Marines on leave, the U.S. Secret Service appoints young Art Smith to lead the investigation. Four volunteers decide to assist him in his dangerous undertaking, and prepare to act as bait for the kidnappers.
Paris Does Not Exist
In this film, an artist attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into the future and the past. He returns to his apartment where he sees the vision of a woman who had lived there 30 years ago. His psychedelic hallucinations increase with time. Starring Richard Leduc and Danièle Gaubert with Serge Gainsbourg who also did the score.
Promise at Dawn
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
Anna Karina, Remember
Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her companion in life, Dennis Berry revisits the story of her memories with Jean-Luc Godard and the great directors she knew, her memorable meeting with Serge Gainsbourg, and also, more recently, her career as a singer. With a gaze halfway between mischief and severity, the New Wave's Danish muse embodied a new feminity – deeply linked with women's liberation.
The Great Chase
A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.
Paulina Is Leaving
Paulina leaves the apartment where she lives with her two brothers, Nicolas and Olivier. Her departure is mark by chaotic and sometimes brutal confrontations. Thrust into a world of madness and violence (or is it gaslighting?), Paulina is shuttled from a psychiatric institution to a brothel, while her brothers become resistance fighters in some enigmatic version of France.
Filmography
as Self - Narrator
as Self - Jean Seberg's final husband
as Jean-Marc
as Belle Gueule
as Nono
as Le beatnik
as Olivier
as Dennis-Pylade
as Ange
as Danek
as Charlie