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Gabrielle Lazure Movies

2008  
 
A middle-aged man is forced to come to terms with traumatic events from his childhood in this drama. Not long after the end of World War II, young Alexandre Gérard (Jordan Chemama) was an orphan was an orphan who was handed over to M. de Montferrand, a gentleman who was already taking care of six orphaned boys at his estate near the German border. Alexandre was of Algerian heritage, and soon found himself an outcast among his fellow orphans; they welcomed him with violence, and he used his knowledge to get even with them. However, when a full-grown Alexandre (Laurent Lucas) returns to Alsace thirty years later, he can barely remember anything that happened, and can't recall how the other six boys vanished. It's not until Alexandre is shown a photograph of himself tied and beaten at de Montferrand's home that the terrible truth begins to comes back to him. La Saison des Orphelins (aka The Orphans' Season) received its North American premiere at the 2008 Montreal World Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Starring:
Laurent LucasAurélien Recoing, (more)
 
2004  
R  
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French filmmaker Olivier Dahan directs the crime thriller sequel The Crimson Rivers II: The Angels of the Apocalypse, with a script by Luc Besson inspired by the novel Les Rivières Pourpres by Jean-Christophe Grange. Jean Reno returns as veteran police detective Pierre Niemans. He is sent to the Lorraine region of France to investigate a creepy monastery, where his team discovers a dead body hidden in the walls. Meanwhile, police captain Reda (Benoît Magimel) accidentally hits Jésus (Augustin Legrand) with his car, leading to another encounter with a killer monk. Niemans and Reda get together with religious expert Marie (Camille Natta) for the supernatural investigation. Christopher Lee appears in a cameo role. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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Starring:
Jean RenoBenoît Magimel, (more)
 
 
1991  
NR  
Jan Michael Vincent is the hero-by-default in Final Heist. As indicated by the title, Vincent is David King, a master thief on the verge of retirement. Feeling unfulfilled until he can pull off one last job, King discovers that his partners in crime have their own agendae. Gabrielle Lazure is the woman in the case. When first telecast on Canadian TV, Final Heist was titled L'Etrange rancon. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Starring:
Jan-Michael VincentGabrielle Lazure, (more)
 
1987  
 
Molinat (Phillippe Noiret) and Leroyer (Guy Marchand) are two cops who hate each others guts but are called on to solve the gunshot deaths of victims found on an Atlantic beach resort. The two focus on some females who have a psychological problem with men who are breathing. Molinat sends Leroyer to investigate some sultry suspects, knowing his hated colleague may never come back alive. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

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Starring:
Philippe NoiretGuy Marchand, (more)
 
1986  
 
In a murder mystery cum love story, Tommy (Scott Renderer) is looking for the reason why his brother Billy, a rock musician, is suddenly dead in Paris -- and discovers more than he ever wanted to know about his sibling. After Tommy arrives in the City of Light he talks with Billy's sleazy widow, who bad-mouths the deceased without regret. Next he finds out his brother's friends were anything but Boy Scouts; he eventually discovers Billy had a transvestite lover who is also dead. In the meantime, Tommy finds that drugs were also involved and it becomes clear Billy was murdered. After running into Billy's old girlfriend Julie (Gabrielle Lazure), Tom starts a torrid affair with her, though that will probably not derail his investigation. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Gabrielle LazureScott Renderer, (more)
 
1985  
R  
The early ups and later downs in the life of Joshua Shapiro (James Woods) more or less describe the trajectory of this semi-autobiographical film, adapted from the book by Mordecai Richler. Joshua is a Jewish Canadian writer who has returned from living in England for nearly three decades, only to see the major components of his life disintegrate around him. Flashbacks tell the tale of Joshua's childhood -- raised by a father who is an ex-boxer with a creative approach to earning a living (illegally) and a mother who earns her living as a stripper. Leaving this background and his coming-of-age behind him, Joshua flies off to England and gains a reputation as a writer, marrying a politically leftist but socially elite wife. On his return to Canada at the end of the '70s, everything around him collapses. His best friend dies, his brother-in-law kills himself, there is a smear campaign against him, and someone is out to blackmail him. Things only get worse, in fact, before they level off. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
James WoodsGabrielle Lazure, (more)
 
1984  
 
This well-articulated, engaging story about the differing fortunes of two brothers just after Algeria's war for independence is conventional in its outlines, and may have several more characters than can be developed in a short time, but its subtle handling by director Ariel Zeitoun helps to counteract those flaws. Rego (Christophe Malavoy) has just returned from a tour of duty in Algeria where he escaped the demands of his budding musical career. Now that he is back, his former agent does not welcome him with open arms because he is still mad over Rego's sudden departure, just when things were going well. The delinquent, wild teenager Antoine (Pierre-Loup Rajot) is Rego's younger brother, now in love with his new music teacher (Gabrielle Lazure), and his persistence in going after the reserved young woman ends in a brief and forbidden fling -- and trouble for her. As events continue on their course, the fate of the two brothers is vastly divergent, even though they continue to have a strong bond between them. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Christophe MalavoyGabrielle Lazure, (more)
 
1984  
 
In this embarrassment of an action thriller, the poor storyline and direction are only matched by the underpar acting, all to tell the tale of Berg (Daniel Auteuil), a young stunt car driver who leaves his profession and starts working at a private security service when his lover is killed in an accident at one of their meets. The young man's future is threatened by his dead lover's brother, who had an incestuous love for his sister, and is now out to wreak vengence on Berg for her death. Loud and shrill, the dialogue alone would grate on a viewer's nerves, even if its content were better. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Philippe LéotardDaniel Auteuil, (more)
 
1983  
 
Violent scenes, such as a woman doused with gasoline and set on fire, do nothing to help this melodramatic crime-drama rise above others in its genre. When a police commissioner is determined to track down sources of corruption that reach up to the higher echelons of government he has no idea who he can trust and who not. Without the support of his love interest, a dedicated journalist, he would not stand a chance. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Claude BrasseurJean-Claude Brialy, (more)
 
1983  
 
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This French film has a plot that sounds like an expansion of an urban legend. Walter (Daniel Mesguich) and Sara (Cyrielle Claire) are a married couple who have just moved into a new home together. Everything seems to be going well, despite Walter's fascination with a mysterious woman named Marie-Ange (Gabrielle Lazure) in a nightclub. Then one night, running an errand for Sara, Walter finds Marie-Ange tied up in the middle of the road. He takes her to the nearest villa, hoping to contact a doctor, but he only ends up locked in a bedroom with her. In the midst of their inevitable passion, visions of Magritte paintings dance in Walter's head, for some reason. In the morning, Marie-Ange is gone and Walter's neck is bleeding. ~ John Voorhees, Rovi

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Starring:
Daniel MesguichGabrielle Lazure, (more)
 
1983  
 
This self-conscious film with acting that is not quite up to par, is about an insurance investigator who meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set. The woman is still on his mind when he reaches the set, where contacts with the irritating, emotionally impaired movie crew leave him in a confused state himself -- all the more confused when he learns that his mystery woman had been working on this set as an actress when she suddenly left. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Jacques DutroncLea Massari, (more)
 
1983  
 
Director Jacques Richard tried to emulate a silent movie in all its aspects when he filmed Rebelote. Originally screened with a live string orchestra, the silent black-and-white film has inter-titles and tongue-in-cheek, melodramatic acting and a "soap opera" type plot. Unfortunately, the tale of a sad delinquent trying to overcome his miserable childhood to find success at love and life is not a cleverly acted or staged parody, and so the idea falls short of the standards of excellence of bygone, silent screen days. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Jean-Pierre LéaudChristophe Bazzini, (more)
 
1982  
 
Despite a fast-paced story that slams the broadcast industry and lotto mentality, this sci-fi action thriller emphasizes action over anxiety, and so its hunt-and-kill premise is less exciting than it sounds. Based on a Robert Sheckley tale, the action is brought about by a television show invented by money-motivated executives with ratings on the brain. The idea is to choose someone from the vast sea of the unemployed and cast them as the "hunted," while five others are the "hunters." The prey receives a million dollars if he or she can outsmart the five hunters, and a hunter gets $100,000 for finding and killing their human target. François Jacquemard (Gerard Lanvin) is chosen to be the man who has to outsmart the five hitmen, and when he proves to be too good at it, the TV executives have to find a way to outsmart him. All the drama, from beginning to end, is played out under the watchful eyes of multiple TV cameras, on the ground and in the air, while blood-thirsty viewers stay glued to their sets like Romans watching the gladiators -- but unlike the Romans, they are regularly interrupted by those annoying commercial breaks. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Gérard LanvinMichel Piccoli, (more)
 
1982  
PG  
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Directed by TV-anthology veteran Jeannot Szwarc, Enigma has a certain small-screen "feel" to it. Adopting a musical-comedy foreign accent, Martin Sheen plays Alex Holbeck, an Iron Curtain defector who returns to East Germany at the behest of the CIA. His mission is to save five political "undesirables" from the communists. Holbeck runs up against some formidable opposition, namely ambitious KGB agent Dimitri Vasilkov (Sam Neill) and a quintet of highly trained Soviet assassins. Brigitte Fossey co-stars as Holbeck's former love, whom he involves in his escape plans by asking her to romance the susceptible Vasilkov. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Starring:
Martin SheenBrigitte Fossey, (more)