Françoise Vatel
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Françoise Vatel.
Known For
La P..... sentimentale
A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Photographer Henri Barbier is lured by his old friend Barbara to fake the theft of her jewels. It turns out that he is suspected of murder and extortion, while Barbara and her lover are the culprits, which is eventually revealed.
The Cousins
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.
Sound and Fury
This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.
Brigitte and Brigitte
Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.
The Smugglers
Two young women leave claustrophobic city life behind and move to a small border town. There they meet a border guard, involved in smuggling to and from the country. Both women fall for him, resulting in jealousy.
The Comedy of Work
Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an employment agency. Françoise is secretly in love with Sylvain, so in order to keep him close she convinces her employer to give Sylvain a job he doesn't want, instead of Benoit who not only wants it but also has the right qualifications.
An Overcooked Steak
Though a piece of meat figures in this film the real subject is, before you judge something not just a steak, think twice, as for instance the way two people in a situation present themselves to each other.
Black Earth
Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing".
Filmography
as Mother of Jean-Roger
as Une amie de Françoise
as Narrator
as Mimi
as La charcutière
as Brigitte
as Francine
as Brigitte
as Une pensionnaire (sketch "La Fermeture")
as Caroline
as Odette
as Narrator (voice)
as Nadine
as Daisy
as Martine
as Marie-Titi
as Brigitte Lambert aka 'Bichette'