Mélanie Baxter-Jones
Acting
Biography
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Place of Birth: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France
Known For
Accusé
Six stories about six people facing accusations in court.
Strange Gardens
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
The Children of the Marshland
The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.
Les Wriggles à la cigale
Cinq drôles de bonhommes rouges qui chantent en racontant des histoires avec pour seul instrument... une guitare. Impossible de ne pas rester l'oreille accrochée aux textes tant ils sont remplis de réalité parfois violente, satirique, politique ou absurde. Un travail de mise en scène hallucinant et un véritable spectacle théâtral.
Piste noire
In the Alps, a caravan burns, enclosing a seasonal worker in its flames. Emilie Karras, a young gendarme from Lyon, originally from Les Clairies, leads the investigation, forced to collaborate with Major Servoz, a disillusioned local gendarme.
The Ideal Palace
Follows Joseph Ferdinand Chavel a French postman who built a palace in the French countryside over 33 years.
All Our Desires
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. Under Claire’s influence, Stéphane discovers a new lease of life and at last finds a cause that is worth fighting for...
Cold Beds
On a winter night in a ski resort in the French Alps, Mona, a young Italian seasonal worker, has locked herself out. She is struggling in the cold while looking for shelter. Her nighttime journey takes her near an unknown presence.
Les Têtes givrées
Alain, a former mountain guide, decides to change his life and become a teacher. He finds himself faced with colorful ninth graders who are not interested in anything. Seeking to motivate them and bring them together, Alain decides to organize an outing... in the bowels of a glacier. The students discover a breathtakingly beautiful world of ice. The idea that this glacier could disappear is unbearable for them. Trained by Alain, the students throw themselves body and soul into a crazy project: to prevent the glacier from melting and nothing can stop them!
Fierce
A young corporate executive is kidnapped from his apartment. He wakes up in the middle of a forest only to be stalked by a mysterious hunter.
Filmography
as Inès' mother
as La gérante du Tremplin
as Conductrice
as Le policiet de l'accueil PJ
as Rosalie Cheval
as L'aide à domicile
as Skier
as (Voice)
as Juge affaire familiale
as L'infirmière
as Nurse
as Infirmière
as Preppy Patron
as La maîtresse de maternelle
as Self (segment "Et...merde !")
as Emile's daughter in 1944
as Fiona
as Catherine