Caroline Chaniolleau Movies
- 1993
- R
In this light comedy, Pierre is a middle-aged man with a twenty-year old wife. The couple is expecting a baby. Some passing discomfort causes him to take Cecile to the emergency room. There he discovers that Isabell, a girlfriend he had been with when he was in his twenties, is the attending physician. In their discussions, he discovers that she has just moved back to France after serving in a humanitarian mission to South America. When he discovers that she is staying at her parent's house, he offers her the use of the spare room in his house. He is undoubtedly somewhat surprised when she agrees to this. Her presence is, naturally enough, disruptive to his domestic arrangements but not for the reasons one might expect. Her biological clock is ticking, and she wants to have a baby. The married couple watch in amazement as this very self-involved woman "interviews" prospective fathers for her child at their home. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Caroline Chaniolleau, Karin Viard, (more)
- 1988
Louise (Elizabeth Bourgine) is a young woman working at a publishing house who develops an unusual affection for submitted manuscript. She breaks up with Serge (Philippe Leotard), the printer who loves her. Louise tells the heartbroken Serge she has fallen in love with the author whom she has never met or even seen. She travels to New York to hunt down the elusive author and ends up in a remote farmhouse in Vermont, where she is greeted by Norma (Anna Massey), the mother of the elusive author. The two women wait for his return in this psychological drama that later becomes a thriller. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elizabeth Bourgine, Philippe Léotard, (more)
- 1987
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manuela de Freitas) both loves and hates him as Joao plays on her wavering emotional state. He is sent to Italy to retrieve wayward family member Antonia (Caroline Chaniolleau), the beautiful young woman with a terrorist boyfriend. Joao is forced to recognize his feelings as the political and amorous climate changes around him. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Luis Miguel Cintra, Caroline Chaniolleau, (more)
- 1986
In this comedy-drama, a young but sterile man suddenly wants to be a father. A friend calls this the "kangaroo complex," because male kangaroos do not have pouches to carry their offspring. So Loic (Roland Giraud, just out of his starring role in Trois Hommes et une Couffin later to be remade in the U.S. as Three Men and a Baby), goes looking for a solution to his "complex." He cannot have children himself because of a bad case of the mumps when he was in his mid-20s. That does not leave many options open to him until he accidentally comes across his old girlfriend with her 6-year-old son and notes that the little boy looks a lot like him. It does not take much to convince him that the boy is his own but once having reached that conclusion, the rest of his plan for new-found fatherhood is loaded with pitfalls. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roland Giraud, Clémentine Célarié, (more)
- 1986
Charles Aznavour and Ugo Tognazzi appear in this comedy about two Jewish merchants in need of cash. They team up with a Seminarian (Andre Dussolier) whose talents lie in opening safes and praying to God for assistance, and they plan one great robbery that will get everyone out of debt. Some viewers might take exception at a few digs against organized religion. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charles Aznavour, Ugo Tognazzi, (more)
- 1985
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after his mother died. The trio move to Paris where they set up an art scam that nets them considerable cash -- something Jean begins to figure out when he joins them for a family reunion. Little by little, he learns that his father is an expert forger, his stepmother's art gallery seems to be involved in the scam, his brother is a derelict and into drugs, his stepmother is a hooker in addition to all of this, and his sister runs an exercise gym for keeping prostitutes in shape. Things get worse -- just when everything seems bad enough, the stepmother is murdered and it is up to Jean to find the killer. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pierre Arditi, Jacques Penot, (more)
- 1978
This provocative film anthology contains nine short fiction and documentary films believed to have had great influence on the development of New German Cinema. Each of the five was directed by a different German filmmaker and are set during the politically tempestuous summer of 1977 in West Germany when terrorism ran rampant. Filmmakers include Fassbinder, Boll, Schlondorff, Sinkel, Kluge (who narrates) and more. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Caroline Chaniolleau
