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Jessica Forde

Jessica Forde

Acting

Biography

Jessica was born in London, Great Britain. Her father is British, her mother French. She has both British and French nationalities. She works as a stills photographer since 2003 taking advantage of her previous experiences as an actress and her passion for photographic techniques. Her first film as an actress, Eric Rohmer's Four adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, set her sights on the cinema. She has acted in French, Italian and English with over thirty directors, notably Eric Rohmer, Jacques Doillon, Jean-Jacques Beinex, Josiane Balasko, Carlo Mazzacurati, Raul Ruiz, Tsui Hark... And with actors such as Michel Piccoli, Patrick Timsit, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mickey Rourke, Richard Berry, Daniel Auteuil... Jessica has a passion for storytelling in it's various forms. In the passed years she has been especially focusing on photography, documentary, and cinema techniques. She enjoys working alongside different cinematographers and so, forging her own eye to framing and lighting. She has directed 3 short films and one 52 minutes documentary. - IMDb Mini Biography By: By: J.Forde

Known For

Lucy
6.5

A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

Lucy

2014
Bastille Day
6.3

Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.

Bastille Day

2016
Love at First Sight
6.5

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Love at First Sight

1992
22 Bullets
6.7

A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

22 Bullets

2010
Double Team
5.2

A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.

Double Team

1997
Overdrive
6.1

Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

Overdrive

2017
Equals
6.1

A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.

Equals

2015
Betty Blue
7.2

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

Betty Blue

1986
Magic in the Moonlight
6.5

Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

Magic in the Moonlight

2014
Une femme en blanc
9.0

A young surgeon returns to her hometown to work in the local hospital. The relationship to her ex-lover, a well-known chief-surgeon, flames up again but not with happy consequences. The old friends become rivals in personal and professional fields.

Une femme en blanc

1997
Adults in the Room
6.5

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.

Adults in the Room

2019
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
7.4

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

1987
Cinématon
4.9

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.

Cinématon

1978
Modì
9.0

The life of Amedeo Modigliani, a painter and a genius.

Modì

1989
My Life Is Hell
5.8

The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.

My Life Is Hell

1991
A Soul Split in Two
6.8

Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can't explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe – that's her name – warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?

A Soul Split in Two

1993
L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
5.1

The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction

2001
Il prete bello
4.0

In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.

Il prete bello

1989
The Prude
4.9

Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses in his troupe act out different aspects of his daughter's character. Unfortunately, this is not adequate preparation, for when Manon does show up, nothing goes quite as he imagined...

The Prude

1986
Mamirolle
3.7

Delphine meets Manuel. Fragile and elusive, the young man escapes him. Manuel leaves the city to flee his illness, a cancer. Delphine goes in pursuit and plunges into a world of dark encounters.

Mamirolle

2000