Monique Chaumette
Acting
Biography
Monique Chaumette (born 4 April 1927) is a French actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1958. She was married to Philippe Noiret from 1962 until his death in 2006. Source: Article "Monique Chaumette" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: April 4, 1927
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
The Two of Us
Toussaint and Madeleine have loved each other from the cradle. They are now sixty. They have reached retirement age and have decided to return to Corsica. Toussaint has spent thirty years underground in the maintenance workshops of the Paris metro system. he is happy, but Madeleine misses Paris with its excitement and, above all, their son, who is a doctor in one of the French capital's major hospitals. Madeleine has such love for her son that Toussaint teases her by saying she should ask the Pope for dispensation in order to marry him. Toussaint and Madeleine return to Balba at the beginning of the winter when the days are short, the village bar is closed and the men too scarce for even a game of cards. The silence is occasionally broken by the village idiot, Napolean, as he ambles about shouting the coming death of Corsica while on patrol of the locked-up houses he's been set to guard...
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.
The Confession
In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran long a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with his wife. However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. Unclear what his offense is, agents for the totalitarian regime interrogate and torture him, aiming to use their unending power to gain a false confession for these supposed crimes against the state.
La Grande Bouffe
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.
A Sunday in the Country
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
The Sleeping Car Murders
Six people travel by overnight train from Marseilles to Paris. When they arrive, one of them, a young woman, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police, led by Inspector Grazzi, investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one among them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the others start turning up dead. It's up to the remaining two to solve the case, lest they become the next victims.
The Widow Couderc
The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.
The Judge and the Assassin
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
The Lacemaker
Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.
Filmography
as Margot
as Frau Rosenthal
as Madeleine, Nathalie's grandmother
as Nora
as Fanny
as la mère de Robert Badinter
as La Gouvernante
as Madeleine
as Gisèle Laumière
as Martin's mother
as Mother François
as Colette
as Mercedes
as Mme Labbé
as Marthe's mother
as Laura
as La mère de Louise
as Louise
as The mother
as Henriette
as Mrs. Béligné
as Lise Paulet-Dauchy (40 ans)
as La femme de l'horloger
as Honorine
as La mère de Louise
as Yvonne, governess of Pontcallec
as Sister Lucie
as Mrs. Torrini (uncredited)
as Madeleine
as Marie-Berthe
as Déborah
as Françoise
as Lise's Friend
as Virgin Mary
as Mme Moujon
as Mme Rivolani
as Narrator (voice)