Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor, known to be one of the most prolific in film history. Icon of French cinema, a world star in the same way as Alain Delon or Brigitte Bardot, he has completed over 250 films since 1967, almost exclusively as a lead. Depardieu has worked with over 150 film directors whose most notable collaborations include Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Maurice Pialat, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Ridley Scott, and Bernardo Bertolucci. He is the second highest-grossing actor in the history of French cinema behind Louis de Funès. As of January 2022, his body of work also includes countless television productions, 18 stage plays, 16 records and 9 books. He is known for having portrayed numerous leading historical and fictitious figures of the Western world including Georges Danton, Joseph Stalin, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean Valjean, Edmond Dantès, Christopher Columbus, Obélix, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Josiane Balasko is a French actress, writer, and director. She has been nominated seven times for César Awards, and won twice.
In French, pronouns are inflected to indicate their role in the sentence, as well as to reflect the person, gender, and number of their referents.
Antoine de Caunes is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert. He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes.
"Parlez-moi d'amour" is a song written by Jean Lenoir in 1924 originally intended for Mistinguett. Lucienne Boyer was the first singer to record the song in 1930, and she made it very popular in France, America, and the rest of the world. An English translation was written by Bruce Sievier and is known as "Speak to Me of Love" or "Tell Me About Love".
Michel Blanc was a French actor, writer and director. He is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs. He is frequently associated with Le Splendid, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel and Gérard Jugnot. He also appeared in more serious roles, such as the title role in the Patrice Leconte film Monsieur Hire.
Gérard Lanvin is a César Award-winning French actor. He quit his studies when he was 17 to become an actor. He took on a role in Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine in 1977 on an offer from the actor Coluche. He received the Prix Jean Gabin in 1982 for his role in Une étrange affaire. In 1995 he won a César Award for Best Actor with Le Fils préféré. Other appearances include Une semaine de vacances and 3 zéros. During the 2000s, he returned to the big screen with popular comedies. In 2001, he received the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role with The Taste of Others . He is married to Chantal Benoist, an actress, model and singer who released disco albums in 70s/80s under the name "Jennifer".
The 11th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1985 and took place on 22 February 1986 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault and hosted by Michel Drucker. Three Men and a Cradle won the award for Best Film.
Catherine Jacob is a French film and theatre actress who has won a César Award for her role in Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988), and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Tatie Danielle (1990), Merci la vie (1991) and Neuf mois (1994). She has been two-time president of the Lumières Award. She is known for her voice and her charisma.
Seul... avec vous is the name of the first live album recorded by the Canadian singer Garou. Recorded during Garou's 2001 concerts tour and released on 6 November 2001, this album contains many songs from his debut album, Seul, and other songs from the musical Notre-Dame de Paris, plus a cover version of "Le Monde est stone" in a studio version, which was the only single from this live album. Seul... avec vous met success in the Belgium and France, reaching the top five of the charts.
The 45th Cannes Film Festival took place from 7 to 18 May 1992. French actor Gérard Depardieu served as jury president for the main competition.
Véronique Silver was a French actress.
Bertrand Planes is a French visual artist who lives and works in Paris, France. His artworks often involve subverting and finding new uses for everyday objects.
Manu Lanvin is a French blues rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He's the son of French actor Gérard Lanvin.
Deux sonnets de Jean Cassou is a song cycle for baritone and piano written by the French composer Henri Dutilleux in 1954. He later transcribed or allowed transcriptions of the work for various ensembles.
Vahé-Karnik Khatchadourian better known as Vahé Katcha was a French Armenian author, screenwriter and journalist. Katcha wrote 25 novels and two theatre pieces in addition to a great number of adaptations and screenwriting for a great number of French films. His novel L'Hameçon was adapted for the American film The Hook.
Mary Marquet was a French stage and film actress.
Gérard Le Gouic is a French poet and writer.
Opinion polling on the presidency of Emmanuel Macron has been regularly conducted by French pollsters since the start of his five–year term. Public opinion on various issues has also been tracked.
Xavier Le Tourneur d'Ison, popularly known as Xavier Letourneur, is a French filmmaker and actor. One of the most respected artists in France, he has produced more than 5000 artistic works in cinema, theatre and television.
