Acting
Claude Mathieu is a French stage and film actress.
How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a homosexual... until, aged 30, he meets the woman who, after his mother, will become the other woman in his life. Beyond this story of a heterosexual coming-out, the film tells the tale of an actor who never stopped loving women, maybe even a little too much.
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
The Forest is both a vibrantly spontaneous and brutally funny family drama, and a glorious tribute to acting and theater - in other words, an Arnaud Desplechin film. With Michel Vuillermoz and Denis PodalydĂšs as the nephew and his friend, Adeline DâHermy as the niece, and Martine Chevallier in a stunning performance as the sublimely selfish aunt Raissa.
Paris, sumÂmer 2020. Actors from âla ComĂ©die-Françaiseâ, Franceâs most presÂtiÂgious theÂater, rehearse Christophe HonÂorĂ©âs new play, an adapÂtaÂtion of MarÂcel Proustâs âThe GuerÂmantes Wayâ. When the show is sudÂdenÂly canÂceled, the draÂma group decides to go ahead with it anyÂway, in the name of art and for the joy of actÂing together.
In July 1942, during the Velâ dâHivâ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbaum and her parents, who are Polish Jews, find refuge in a tiny room for the next 765 days. Living conditions are tough and they fear being discovered at any moment. But while her parents sink further into despair, Taubaâs fighting spirit shines through. She finds joy in every little thing, from a piano drawn on the floor, to the views of Paris through an open window. Despite extreme circumstances, she will keep hope until the liberation of Paris, and take back control of her life.
Arnolphe plans to marry AgnĂšs, his ward, a naive and submissive young girl, whom he keeps recluse in a convent. His plans are threatened when Horace confesses his feelings for AgnĂšs.
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Theater play "Les précieuses ridicules" played by the "Comédie française" in 1997.
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of MoliĂšreâs birth on 15 January 2022, Ivo van Hove reunited with the Troupe for their third collaboration, a production of Le Tartuffe ou lâHypocrite, the original version in three acts, banned at its premiere in 1664 and reconstructed thanks to the work of âtheatrical geneticsâ overseen by Georges Forestier and Isabelle Grellet.
At Versailles, the last rehearsal of a play, ordered to moliĂšre by Louis XIV the king. Staged in their own characters, actors and author display their art's conception. It is, too, the opportunity for them to answer by irony to their detractors.
An adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet", staged by Ăric Ruf.
The Venetian performance world is on the alert: an impresario is looking for talent to stage what he defines as the most beautiful opera of his time. Everyone goes there from their pushy little merry-go-round to attract the favors of the character and extricate themselves from misery. But the main interested party hardly seems to be sensitive to these effects.
