France Roche
Acting
Biography
France Roche is a French journalist, film critic, television producer and presenter, actress, born April 2, 1921 in Saint-Tropez and died December 14, 2013 in Paris 10th. She has also written books and film scripts, adapted plays and acted in films. She collaborated in particular with: Ciné Mondial (1941-1944), Cinévie and especially Cinémonde of which she was editor-in-chief, magazines devoted to cinema; Marie France then France-Soir, as head of the cinema page of Pierre Lazareff's daily newspaper. The newspaper then has a circulation of more than a million copies and can have three or four editions per day. She is the “Madame Cinema” of the most powerful French newspaper; the ORTF, as part of the broadcasts: Five columns on the front page, where she notably carries out an interview with Brigitte Bardot, Cinépanorama (programs on cinema, notably on the Cannes festival), Thirty years of silence (on the stars of silent cinema) and Headliner: long interviews with Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Renaud (1966), Jean Marais (1968), Arletty, Annie Girardot (1969), Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse (1970), Michel Piccoli (1971), Jeanne Moreau (1972)…; Antenna 2: called by Jacqueline Baudrier, she becomes deputy editor-in-chief and editorialist, head of the culture department. She is the specialist in cinema, entertainment and fashion on the television news (1969-1986) within the framework of which she notably presents live every day during the Cannes Film Festival a column on the films in competition. She also interviews Woody Allen in the show Woody Allen or the Funniest Anhedonist in the World (1979). She then participated in the shows Sexy Folies created by Pascale Breugnot (1986) in which she advised viewers on the telephone then J'aime à la Folie devoted to the Avignon Festival (1987-88): Canal Jimmy, where, at the request of Michel Thoulouze and Pierre Lescure she hosts T'as pas une idées, a trans-generational show in which a guest, born in the 1950s to 70s, is questioned by young people from the 1990s (1991-2001); CinéCinéma, where she presents the show Ciné-ciné court dedicated to short films; France Inter where she is a columnist for Pierre-Yves Guillen in the show Piment Rose. France Roche is the author of several film scripts, notably with Michel Audiard, whom she discovered and starred in around fifteen films between 1950 and 1958. She was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1961. France Roche's career presents an atypical profile. Familiar with the general public until around 1965, she then took on executive functions more in the background, with less visibility, before returning to the screens from 1986. Such a long eclipse, although only apparent, and her return, have at the time created astonishment. She was the wife of François Chalais then of Gilbert de Goldschmidt, with whom she has a son: Frédéric, born in 1959.
Known For
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Cinépanorama
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Nulle part ailleurs
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Reflets de Cannes
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
French Cancan
A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
Male Hunt
At the Conservatory of Vienna the students only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter.
School for Love
Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two children. He tells Chistine he will tell all to her husband and demand her freedom. Christine learns that her husband has been carrying on a romance of his own and they have a meeting.
Adorable Creatures
He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a certain amount of money from wealthy ladies. Having given up on touching little Marie, he fell into the clutches of fashionable decorator Loina. Both love money, both go for it. Their characters bind them together. So much so that when Loina falls on hard times, Gueule d'ange would fly to help her. A loyal friend stops him. Loina leaves. Distraught, the handsome boy looks inward. It's time for him to settle down.
Pleasures and Vices
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Famous Love Affairs
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Love and the Frenchwoman
Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect supports his in-depth reflection on the city and its necessary adaptation to modern life with plans, drawings and images, particularly Paris, whose revolutionary development dreamed of by Le Corbusier is exhibited here. Its first projects will remain at the stage of a model: the modernization plan for the city of Algiers. Some will be created by other architects: Ministry of Education in Rio de Janeiro, UN Palace in New York. From the post-war period in less than 10 years, Le Corbusier created large housing units in Marseille, Nantes, a chapel in Ronchamps, a factory in Saint-Dié, a town in Chandigarh in India. Through diagrams, the architect presents his theory of the "radiant city", the mathematical key modulor of his work as well as his project for reorganizing the countryside, industrial and urban cities into a grouping around a cooperative system.
Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Without Leaving an Address
Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.
Matrimonial Agency
A young woman leaves her hometown and husband to explore Paris, where she becomes entangled in a rivalry between a doctor and a novelist in high society.
The Lions Are Loose
A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with archival footage and clips from his films. It offers a deeper understanding of the career of the man whom Jean Gabin swore by from the mid-1950s onward, and whom films such as "Les Tontons Flingueurs" immortalized.
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.
A Girl in a Pocket
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.
Nuit d'ivresse
The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris.
The Irony of Money
An English governor in India, deceived by his wife, proposes to him either to accuse the lover of embezzlement, or to condemn her to end her days as a prostitute in the rue des Bouches Peintes. She chooses the second solution...
La Rue des bouches peintes
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. The second concerns the brutal broad daylight murder of innocent young Yvonne.