Virginie Thévenet
Acting
Biography
Virginie Thévenet was born on January 12, 1954 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for Jeux d'artifices (1987), The Night Wears Suspenders (1985) and Quartet (1981).
Born: January 12, 1957
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
The Adventures of Rosette
A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.
Small Change
The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.
A Good Marriage
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
Full Moon in Paris
Feeling suffocated by a possessive boyfriend, work and suburban life, a young woman starts spending the weekends in her Paris apartment in order to reclaim some of her lost freedom.
A Dirty Story
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
Winter's Child
Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...
Quartet
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
Sophie's Ways
Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.
The Cry of the Owl
Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites him in...
Filmography
as Misia Sert
as Maryse
as Véronique
as Chérubin
as Camille
as The Bride
as Madmoiselle Chardin
as Nathalie
as Sabine
as Lydie Richet
as Martine
as Student 1
as Stéphanie