Jeanne Goupil Movies
Quand Tu Descendras du Ciel director Eric Guirado follows up his feature filmmaking debut with this drama about a grocer's son who returns to the village where he was born in order to take over his father's business. Ten years ago, Antione (Nicolas Cazalé) left his family behind and moved to the big city. Now, after discovering that his father (Daniel Duval) has suffered a heart attack and that the family grocery store will soon be forced to shut down, Antoine heads back to the French mountain town at the behest of his brother François (Stéphan Guérin-Tillié). It seems that few folks save for his mother (Jeanne Goupil) are happy to see Antoine return, though the meandering 30-year-old has brought city friend Claire (Clotilde Hesme) along to keep him company during his stay in the country. Though it remains to be seen whether Antoine and Claire will ever become anything more than friends, the free-spirited sprite is more than happy to help out when it comes to making the rounds with the mobile store that services the local villages. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, (more)
This drama examines three amoral young people living in Paris. 18-year-old Nathalie (Marie Gillain) works in a clothing store and dreams of opening her own boutique in the United States. She shares an apartment with her boyfriend Eric (Olivier Sitruk) and his slow-witted pal Bruno (Bruno Putzulu); she pays the rent while they stay home and watch crime movies on television. All three are looking for a fast and easy way to make some money, so together they devise a plan. Nathalie will hang out in nightclubs, meet prosperous-looking men, and go home with them. Once she's inside their apartments, she'll let in Eric and Bruno, and they'll rob the place of cash and valuables. The plan works well at first, before things go wrong one night and Eric commands Bruno to kill their victim. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, (more)
- 1982
In this sci-fi film a suicidal salesman is saved when he encounters a scientist who is working on a revolutionary new antidepressant. The man becomes so peaceful of all around him, that he begins driving everyone around him crazy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Patrick Dewaere, Jacques Dutronc, (more)
- 1981
The heroine in this domestic drama is a woman with middle-class angst (Jeanne Goupil) married to an acerbic film critic with little in the way of interpersonal skills. The woman has had it with endless, meaningless twaddle from each of her husband's friends about what they think, feel, or do. She needs something more than what she faces each day, and finally blows up at her husband like a pressure cooker venting steam. The aftermath is not without its effects on both husband and wife. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jeanne Goupil, Didier Flamand, (more)
- 1981
Pauline (Carole Laure), an attractive woman, becomes the obsession of a killer, Jacques (Richard Berry) who has murdered several women. He breaks into her apartment, makes her strip, does not touch her, and leaves. Ravic (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is the police inspector trying to track down the killer and when he sees Pauline, he develops an equally neurotic obsession for the woman. The two men, police inspector and criminal, are headed for a final show-down in Pauline's apartment, and only one of them will walk out alive. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Laure, (more)
- 1976
When Maria (Jeanne Goupil), a woman who is too beautiful to seem quite real, marries a dollmaker, her new husband finds it hard to treat her like a real person instead of a strange, animated doll. She suffers greatly from this treatment, which is an exaggerated version of the sorts of things she has endured her whole life, and her efforts to break through to others ultimately fail. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jeanne Goupil, André Dussollier, (more)
- 1975
Jean-Pierre Marielle stars in this gentle comedy as a traveling salesman whose wife adamantly refuses to let him make paintings of her buttocks. At some point, fed up, he leaves his family and, after several tries, establishes himself as a painter. This is all thanks to the imperturbable kindness of his mistress and model (Dolores McDonough), who bakes cakes as diligently as her man paints pictures of her rump. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean-Pierre Marielle, Bernard Fresson, (more)
- 1973
This French film offers a clear-sighted look at a hard-working segment of the transient underclass in France. Charlie (Serge Sauvion) travels around Paris and the surrounding countryside selling oilcloth at outdoor bazaars. While he is looking for more permanent work, he runs into two girls, Guislaine (Jeanne Goupil) and Josyane (Nathalie Drivet), who are 19 and 20 respectively. They want to work with him, selling oilcloth. The movie shows their ups and downs, and growing closeness, as they travel about. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Serge Sauvion, Jeanne Goupil, (more)
- 1971
Former high-school teacher Rene Gilson directs this French film, one of the few of its time-period to deal with a politically sensitive subject. Set in a French high school during the late '60s, it concerns the protests by students over archaic teaching methods and situations, and over the nearly universal chauvinism of their course content (France is first and best, now and always). Though the story is told through discussions between the students and confrontations with teachers (including a teacher played by Gilson himself), reviewers did not find its talkiness tiresome. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1970
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Two young French schoolgirls, bored and left too much by themselves, decide to dedicate themselves to doing evil after reading works by French revolutionaries and anti-social types (Baudelaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau come to mind). The leader of the two instigates a number of small crimes such as torturing a cat, and tormenting the school groundskeeper by killing birds. After they eventually move on to grander things -- a black mass and murder -- they find themselves under suspicion by the police. During a school review, in their final act of self-destructive violence, the two recite nonsense verse, douse themselves in gasoline and set themselves on fire. This film was firmly censored by French authorities, but it was allowed to be seen at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jeanne Goupil, Bernard Dheran, (more)
