Françoise Lebrun
Acting
Biography
Françoise Lebrun is a French film and television actress.
Born: August 18, 1944
Place of Birth: France
Known For
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
The Mother and the Whore
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
Woman of the Ganges
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...
At the Top of the Stairs
A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.
Vortex
Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.
The Girl Without Hands
A poor miller gets tricked by the Devil and accidentally sells his daughter for a bit of gold. But Satan can't take her because she's too pure and has wept on her hands. So Satan orders the miller to cut her hands off. It's the beginning of the young girl's journey towards freedom.
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.
Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à Sophie, this film pays tribute to her extraordinary life and artistic odyssey. Her grand-daughters, Anna, Juliette and Solène, revisit the dreams of Bernadette, in the family home in the Cevennes region where they, like her, grew up. Her close friends, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon, reminisce on their artistic and human complicity. Throughout the film, Bernadette Lafont in person, with her inimitable character actress voice, re-evokes a life in cinema marked with insolence, courage and freedom.
Julie & Julia
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Filmography
as Mrs Gautier
as Mme Léonie
as The Grandmother
as Self - Actress
as Rozenn
as Françoise
as Monique
as Catherine
as Françoise Lebrun
as La mère
as Denise
as La Grand-mère
as Narrator (voice)
as Agnès
as Self - Guest
as Elle
as voix-off
as Denise
as Anouk
as Françoise Lebrun
as Françoise
as Madame Florence Patenaude
as Géraud's mother
as Blanche
as Madeline (voice)
as Landlady
as Mother
as La Mère (voice)
as Valentine
as Renée Lefèvre
as Mileva Einstein
as Sarah
as Rose
as Alice
as Françoise
as Françoise
as Self
as Alix's mother (voice)
as Madame de Moni
as Leah
as Isabelle
as Marie-Paule, la femme de chambre
as Self
as Woman 3
as Claire Guibert
as Baker's Mother
as La femme élégante hôtel Betty
as La mère supérieure
as Florence Arp
as Madame Bauby
as Une lectrice
as Germaine Sémouly
as Françoise, Paul's wife
as Psychiatrist
as Rose
as L'infirmière
as Self
as The woman
as Michèle
as Cécile Delvert
as The woman doctor
as Clara
as Augustine jeune
as Voix de la Réception (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Veronika
as La jeune femme