Geneviève Fontanel Movies

Michaud (Michel Serrault) is a timid and anxiety-ridden security-systems technician who is prone to daydreams like Walter Mitty. Continually teased by his colleagues and his taunting alter ego, Michaud is victimized by a fellow employee who tries to implicate him in a bank robbery. He emerges from his emotional isolation and daydreams to help trap the crooks. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Delphine Seyrig plays a middle-aged woman coping with an ungovernable present and holding out hopes of escaping to a more pleasant past. She leaves her current residence to retreat to her provincial French hometown. Here she dreams of locating and rekindling an old love. Seyrig is less inscrutable here than in her debut feature-film appearance Last Year in Marienbad (61), though the character is just as complex and difficult to please. Grain of Sand was released in France in 1983 as Le Grain de Sable. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Based on the novel by Bernice Rubens, I Sent a Letter to My Love stars Simone Signoret as a woman who has reached middle age without truly learning how to live. Responsible for the constant care of her paraplegic brother Jean Rochefort, Signoret seeks a brief respite from her confinement by inaugurating a pen-pal relationship with a man she has never met. Gradually, Signoret falls in love with her mystery correspondent, a love that is apparently reciprocated. No, we will not divulge the ending. Also featured in I Sent a Letter to My Love is cult favorite Delphine Seyrig. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Though they are surprisingly ill-suited for their chosen vocation of thievery, the three men (Aldo Maccione, Charles Gerard and Julien Guiomar) in this story are sufficiently charming to intrigue the wife (Mireille Darc) of a police inspector (Georges Wilson) who is persecuting them based on his mistaken belief that they are involved in more serious crimes. Indeed, in this comedy she is so taken with them that she goes out on a few capers with them, including one which sets them up for life, enabling them to retire in the tropics, far outside the inspector's jurisdiction. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

When he suddenly dies and is buried, the late Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), an aeronautical engineer from Montpelier, receives funeral visitation from hundreds of women. Little wonder: in life, Morane simply couldn't keep his mind off of women -- one glance at a well-turned ankle and he was lost. Astonishingly, women felt the same way about him. Though more than one paramour held it against Bertrand when his eyes wandered, he never considered his promiscuousness a shortcoming -- which led him into amorous relationships with such colorful characters as a married sociopath (with a taste for lovemaking in risky places), a shapely blonde babysitter, an introspective book editor, and dozens of others. Ironically, Morane's success with women hardly represented a gift, for a deep, abiding loneliness lingered within him, resulting from his utter inability to love one woman. Bertrand (who eventually decided to write and publish his autobiography, "The Man Who Loved Women," as a form of self-analysis), could never quite pinpoint the source of his lack of romantic faithfulness, until a fateful and utterly unexpected chance encounter with someone from his past. Read by many as a thinly disguised film à clef for writer/director François Truffaut, The Man Who Loved Women mixes sharp, witty comedy with scenes of gentle poignancy; Truffaut uses the tale to make some deep and tremendously profound comments about love, sex, fidelity, and the underlying differences between men and women. The picture was thinly remade in 1983 by Blake Edwards, with Burt Reynolds as the irresistible hero and Julie Andrews as his therapist. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this romantic comedy, two separate people place "mate wanted" ads in the newspaper personals. Jacqueline (Annie Girardot) is a dog-groomer, and Jean-Pierre (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a tax-collector. There are a number of quite substantial obstacles to their getting together: she has a lot of rowdy dogs, he has an office girlfriend and a tyrannical boss. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In this comedy, a loving wife (Bibi Andersson) recovers the attentions of her husband after he takes a mistress. She does this by making friends with the mistress then subtly sabotaging her husband's romantic excursions. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Three women unwind while on a summer vacation, and as they slowly relax around one another, they begin to discuss the truths of their lives. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In this comedy drama, Salaivin (Maurice Biraud) is a man who lives with his mother (Mona Dol) while holding down a job as a forgettable clerk. When his boss fires him on a whim, Salavin can't find another position and wallows in self pity. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

In this routine soap opera, a young man is engaged to be married even though he professes not to believe in true love, not at all. He works for the owner of a second-hand store and his fiancée is the owner's daughter. One day he sees a sophisticated, classy woman walk into a fashionable shop and, smitten to the core, he decides to forget his current life and go after her. Even when he gets a job in the shop where she so often appears (she is married to the owner), he cannot seem to face reality or give up his feelings. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide