Florence Giorgetti Movies
- 2006
A boy is forced to witness the slow and painful collapse of his family in this drama from France. Martin (Julien Cochelin) is an eleven-year-old boy who lives with his family in a rural community. Their large, shabby house has seen better days, but household repair is the least of the family's problems. Martin's mother Nadege (Dominique Reymond) is emotionally unstable and has begun to retreat into a world of her own, and her husband Jean (Jean-Yves Chatelais) has all but given up on trying to communicate with her. Rose (Annie Cordy), Jean's mother, has moved in with the intention of helping out while Nadege recovers, but it's clear she has little regard for her daughter-in-law and avoids interacting with her grandson. Didier (Pascal Cervo), Martin's older brother, helps look after the boy, as does Malika (Fettouma Bouamari), a Middle Eastern immigrant who helps keep house. However, Didier suffers a falling out with his parents when they discover he's fallen in love with a neighbor boy, and Didier is devastated to learn his new boyfriend has announced his upcoming marriage to a girl. Le Dernier des Fous (aka Demented) was adapted from the novel The Last of the Crazy People by Timothy Findley. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Julien Cochelin, Pascal Cervo, (more)
- 2001
Three families trace their fortunes, for good and ill, over the course of ten summers in this drama from French filmmaker Yves Hanchar. The Bertini, Delperee, and Foucher families first meet by the seaside in 1990, and as the various members become fast friends, they find themselves vacationing together each summer over the next decade. Daniel Delperee (Jeremy Lippmann) finds himself falling in love with Carole (Jessica Pare), a friend of one of the Foucher girls, and over the next several summers he has to come to terms with his feelings for her. He must also face new responsibilities, as his mother Marianne (Catherine Hosmalin), who had been unhappy since parting with her husband Paul (Luc Picard), dies in an auto accident. Daniel then is unsure how to react after Paul becomes involved with a much younger woman, Maddelena (Floriane Devigne). En Vacances received its North American premiere at the 2001 Santa Barbara Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Luc Picard, Luigi Diberti, (more)
- 1992
The young Catalan Antonio lives in France earning his keep by doing construction work. He gradually falls in love with Claudie, an off-kilter girl with a mixed-race family. As he grows attached to her, he becomes even more willing than he was before to love her as she is, warts and all. However, he wants to understand what could have led her to spending some time inside a mental hospital. She tends to be depressed and uncommunicative, but Antonio's warm acceptance helps her to open up gradually. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sergi López, Florence Giorgetti, (more)
- 1988
Louis (Jean-Louis Rolland) is a family man, with a wife and young daughter, who discovers in mid-life that he is gay. After breaking up with his wife Sybele (Florence Giorgetti), his first homosexual encounter nearly drives him to suicide. A short stint as a gay prostitute follows as he continues to struggle with his sexual identity. Louis later finds love with another man who stays with him in spite of the fact that he has AIDS. This remarkable film was shot in ten days and follows the lives of those in it over a ten-year period (from 1978 to 1988) in ten episodes. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean-Louis Rolland, Florence Giorgetti, (more)
- 1985
Based on the prize-winning novel by Elvire Mural, the French Escalier C (Staircase C) stars Robin Renucci as a cynical, spiteful art critic. The critic learns the error of his ways through the catharsis of disturbing life experiences. Though many of his friends and neighbors try to crack the shell he has built around himself, his eyes are opened to the importance of human compassion only after the suicide of his neighbor. In the original novel, the critic finds fulfillment through homosexuality; this element is removed from the film version, though the gay subtext is still very much in evidence. Escalier C was directed by Jean Tacchella, best known internationally for his earlier Cousin Cousine. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robin Renucci, Catherine Leprince, (more)
- 1983
The French My Other Husband (Attention! Une Femme Peut en Cacher une Autre) would eventually suffer the indignity of an American TV-movie remake, which will go unnamed here to protect the guilty. The original film is a sprightly vehicle for the delectable Miou-Miou. Thanks to her resourcefulness and spunk, Alice (Miou-Miou) manages to get two well-paying jobs in two separates cities. She also acquires two husbands, airline pilot Philippe (Roger Hanin) and school teacher Vincent (Eddy Mitchell), and three children unevenly distributed between them. Our Heroine is found out when Philippe's schedule is changed and he chances to meet Vincent. Both men accept the situation philosophically, but a frantic Alice feels an explanation is necessary. It is that explanation that provides the heart and soul of this irresistible little film. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Miou-Miou, Roger Hanin, (more)
- 1983
- R
Interspersed with therapy sessions, this implausible story of murder and madness centers on a woman turned psychotic and eventually, homicidal. Monique (Florence Giorgetti) is seeing a psychiatrist because she is vaguely disturbed by something she cannot remember from her childhood. After she meets and marries artist Richard Lewis (John Ferris), she is also upset that she has not gotten pregnant. Then one day she discovers that her husband is having an adulterous affair -- with another man. In combination with her childhood trauma independently discovered by her therapist, this sends her completely over the edge, with fatal results to the gay community. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Florence Giorgetti, John Ferris, (more)
- 1980
This is an underdeveloped, weak drama with sexual overtones that may offend some audiences. The story is about a young man falsely accused of murder who has to keep running from the authorities because they think he is guilty. He is a painter with no fixed address, which does not impress the police, but they let him go because they have no evidence he committed the crime. Before long the painter runs into a twelve-year-old girl who could exonerate him, a girl who is running away from home herself. Pedophilia becomes a subtheme at this point as the relationship between the painter and the girl gets increasingly ambiguous. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roger Jendly, Florence Giorgetti, (more)
- 1980
This psychological drama turns into a horror story, creating a strong dichotomy that is not easily reconciled. A divorcee (Florence Giorgetti) and a widower (Renaud Verley) meet in a psychiatric hospital where they are both undergoing treatment. She is having a hard time after her divorce, and he feels responsible for the accident that killed his wife and child. Since they are both artists and mutually sympathetic, a tentative liaison starts up between them. He also has a fascination with snails. After her ex-husband kills himself, the divorcee breaks off her relationship with the widower, and he has to be institutionalized again. Just when she begins to recuperate and decides to renew their relationship, everything takes another turn for the worse. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Florence Giorgetti, Renaud Verley, (more)
- 1977
The internationally produced The Lacemaker (La Dentelliere) stars Isabelle Huppert as Pomme, a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. Here Huppert becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student Francois (Yves Beneyton). The relationship sours when Francois takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds. The Lacemaker was the film that solidified the stardom of Isabelle Huppert; she was showered with awards, most notably the British Film Academy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, (more)
- 1973
- NC17
Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life -- a pilot (Marcello Mastroianni), a chef (Ugo Tognazzi), a television host (Michel Piccoli), and a judge (Philippe Noiret) -- but all are successful men with excessive appetites for life's pleasures (food is used as mere metaphor here, as graphic as that metaphor becomes). ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, (more)
