Jacques Bonnaffé

Jacques Bonnaffé

Total Credits at Criticker: 30 (Actor)

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    Lucie Aubrac
    Lucie and Raymond's story is one of love, of the French Resistance in World War II, and of life. Cunning, resourceful, and romantic, Lucie risks her life for what the couple believes in. Her efforts to rescue the husband she passionately loves would seem to spring from the fertile imagination of a novelist... but this film is based on a true story. (October Films)
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    Va Savoir
    A romantic comedy which follows three men and three women as they become entangled in each other's lives during a brief run of a play in Paris. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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    Venus Beauty Institute
    This film takes us into this world of beauty and self image and into the lives of four strong, smart women who make their living practicing beauty at a Parisian spa. (Lot 47 Films)
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    Cote d\
    A family's summer vacation on the Mediterranean collapses into hilarious chaos. (Strand Releasing)
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    When the Sea Rises
    A sweet and genuinely off-beat comedy about a 45-year-old actress (Moreau) traveling from one small town to another with her one-woman shoe "Dirty Business." (New Yorker Films)
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    Lemming
    The story of a troubled relationship festering between two couples: young Alain Getty, a home automation engineer, and his wife, sweet Bénédicte; and middle-aged Richard, Alain's boss, who is married to the mysterious Alice.
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    The Page Turner
    Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted piano player. That is why her parents and herself decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, unfortunately she gets distracted by the president of the jury's offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Mélanie becomes the former president of the jury's page turner, waiting patiently to be revenged... (imdb.com)
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    Les Amitiés maléfiques
    A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar
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    La Fabrique des sentiments
    Attractive, educated and successful, Eloïse (Elsa Zylberstein) has it all, except for a long-term, stable romantic relationship. Now in her mid-30s, she can hear a certain clock ticking loudly. So she enrolls in a speed dating program. (imdb)
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    First Name: Carmen
    The story of a woman who falls in love with one of the security guards of the bank she is robbing.
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    Captain Ahab
    In "Captain Ahab," French writer-helmer Philippe Ramos vividly imagines the formative years of the antagonist of Herman Melville's classic "Moby Dick." Told in five chapters, from Ahab's birth to his death at sea, highly stylized period pic has an intimate, rough-hewn feel. (Variety)
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    Jeanne et le garçon formidable
    Jeanne has an appetite for love that can never be satisfied. Olivier gives her butterflies like never before she finally finds herself in love, truly in love. Yet she continues her affairs. Olivier reveals to Jeanne he has AIDS from a bad needle during his heroine use. This however does not scare Jeanne off and her love for him turns her into a new person who wants to care for him, but that is not what he wants. The two share a common friend that is an AIDS Activist but they don't know it. (imdb)
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    Around a Small Mountain
    Biopic based on the life of author Raymond Roussel. (imdb)
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    Les Diables
    Two troubled children struggle to survive on their own while trying to make it across country in search for their unknown parents.
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    Elle a passé tant d\
    A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa (reminds us of the real-life relationship between Garrel and Nico). In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film on-production, as the birth of a child. (imdb)
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    Arthur Rimbaud - Une biographie
    Using "interviews" and eyewitness accounts from his sister and mother, a childhood friend, an employer, the poet Paul Verlaine, and others who knew him, the film constructs a portrait of Rimbaud's turbulent career, drug addictions, and early death, while the camera wanders the settings that were his favorite haunts. (National Gallery of Art)
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    A moi seule
    A young woman sits at a remote bus stop looking at the image of a missing girl. It is her own photograph; eight years ago, Gaëlle was kidnapped and shut away from the world. Now she has to cope with her traumatic experience and her strange new-found liberty. The film takes the viewer back in time to witness her incredible struggle for survival. (mubi.com)
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    Blanche et Marie
    A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it... Chronicle of the occupation and of the resistance through the eyes of the women. (imdb)
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    For a Good Cause
    A French school introduces a campaign to give African refugees shelter for one month at local families. Young Tonin too wants to help but his parents disagree, so he keeps Moussa, an African boy his own age, hidden in their house. (imdb)
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    Je m\
    A fiction. An 11 year old runaway, the oldest daughter of three. An absent mother, an abusive father, a grandmother too pure to imagine what is going on. A field trip, the girl disappears... she has found refuge in a truck; an initiatory journey, a chance meeting, new encounters; a wonderful and tragic road movie with a Scottish truck driver "when love just happens". (imdb)
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    Escalier C
    The critic learns the error of his ways through the catharsis of disturbing life experiences. (allmovie.com/movie/escalier-c-v125321)
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    Fou d\
    1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket that just welcomed it, the head of the dead man tells his story: everything was going so well. Admired priest, magnificient lover, his earthly paradise seemed to have no end. (imdb)
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    Le fils de Joseph
    Summer in Paris. Fifteen-year-old Vincent refuses to join in with his schoolmates torturing rats or selling sperm on the Internet. He lives with his single mother Marie and finally wants to find out who his father is. His investigations lead him to a famous publisher with an obnoxious character. When he meets said publisher's brother Joseph, his life changes in a flash. (Berlinale 66)
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    O Desejado
    João is the spiritual heir (the term he prefers to bastard) of Manuel Brandão, his dying godfather, and at the same time the political leader of a small party of a disintegrating governmental coalition. (imdb)
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    Anton Tchékhov 1890
    In 1890,Russian writer Anton Chekov writes short stories in newspapers to feed his family. He achieves success in the form of Pushkin prize. However, he decides to meet convicts at Sakhalin when one of this brothers die due to tuberculosis.
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    Derrière les murs
    A woman who moves to the countryside to write a new novel discovers a sealed up room on her basement. From there she will find easy to write but as she starts to have hallucinations some girls from the village disappear.
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    L\
    A series of documentaries on artists and scientists.
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    L'heure D (2015) - TV Series
    A collection of author's documentaries on contemporary society.
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    La campagne de Cicéron
    Christian, an unemployed comedian, decides to go to the Corbières to join Nathalie, a young musician. For her part, Christian's wife Françoise visits Hermance, a festival organist, and falls in love with Simon, her former lover.
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    Ainsi soient-ils
    The series follows the lives of five seminarians arriving in Paris' Capuchin Seminary and the power struggle between the seminary head and his superiors in Rome, as well as the dissonance of a medieval religious institution in a modern, secular society.
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