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One of the more compelling French actresses of her generation, Charlotte Gainsbourg initially made her screen name parlaying wayward adolescence into an understated art form. Tall, long-necked, and elegantly gawky, Gainsbourg first impressed critics and audiences with her portrayal of the naive but rebellious protagonist of L'Effrontée (1985), earning a César for Most Promising Young Actress. The daughter of French singer/songwriter/occasional actor and director Serge Gainsbourg and English actress Jane Birkin, Gainsbourg was born into substantial celebrity in London on July 22, 1971. Initially keen on being either an artist or a surgeon, she made her film debut playing Catherine Deneuve's daughter in the 1984 Paroles et Musique. That same year, she courted notoriety when she starred alongside her ever-irascible father in his controversial "Lemon Incest" music video, which featured the two cuddling on a bed surrounded by feathers. More salubrious attention came the young actress' way the following year, when she earned a César for her performance in Claude Miller's L'Effrontée. After another stint acting alongside her father in his poorly received Charlotte Forever (1986), Gainsbourg again collaborated with director Miller for La Petite Voleuse (1988), portraying a sullen teenager experimenting with sex and various illegal pursuits. She reprised her rebellious teen role for Merci La Vie (1991), a black comedy that cast her and Anouk Grinberg as two young women on a rampage against men and just about whomever else crosses their path. Gainsbourg got an opportunity to broaden her range with Jacques Doillon's Amoureuse (1992), an ensemble piece about a group of young women who come together to discuss life and love, and her uncle Andrew Birkin's The Cement Garden (1994), a drama about extreme familial dysfunction that was the actress' first English language outing. Gainsbourg made her second English film in 1996, starring as the eponymous heroine of Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Although the film, which also starred William Hurt, received very mixed reviews, it did succeed in introducing Gainsbourg to a wider international audience. She further enhanced her good reputation when she won her second César -- this time for Best Supporting Actress -- in 2000 for her work in La Bûche (1999), a comedy that cast her as an ambitious businesswoman who takes up with a mysterious man lodging at her father's house. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide less

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Antichrist (2009)
Cast: Willem Dafoe Lars von Trier
Tags: Horror
Length: 104min
This enormously controversial psychodrama-cum-horror film from Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier charts the degeneration of a marriage into apocalyptic violence, chaos and insanity following an unthinkable domestic tragedy. The film opens with a...
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The City of Your Final Destination (2008)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins Laura Linney James Ivory Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Tags: Drama
Length: min
James Ivory's adaptation of Peter Cameron's -The City of Your Final Destination tells the story of how the family of a writer makes sense of their past decades after the author commits suicide. The plot begins when a graduate student approaches the...
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Lemming (2005)
Cast: Charlotte Rampling
Tags: Drama Marriage Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 129min
The charmed life of a successful young engineer is thrown into chaos following a decidedly uncomfortable dinner with his powerful boss and the man's socially scabrous wife in With a Friend Like Harry director Dominik Moll's twisted, semi-supernatural...
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Persécution (2009)
Tags: Drama
Length: 100min
A man struggling with a failing romantic relationship now has to deal with an admirer he doesn't want in this drama from French filmmaker Patrice Chereau. Daniel (Romain Duris) is a successful self-employed businessman who has been dating Sonia...
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The Science of Sleep (2005)
Cast: Michel Gondry Charlotte Gainsbourg
Tags: Romantic Fantasy Fantasy Comedy Drama Fantasy Comedy
Length: 105min
Inventive Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry takes a surreal trip through the mind of an introverted but wildly creative man whose attempts to balance his colorful dreams with his stark reality are complicated by the arrival...
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Golden Door (2006)
Tags: Family Drama Drama Period Film
Length: 118min
A family living in poverty leaves behind the world they know in hope of finding new opportunities in this historical drama from director Emanuele Crialese. The Mancusos are a family struggling to make ends meet in a small farming community in Sicily...
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La Bûche (1999)
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy Ensemble Film Domestic Comedy
Length: 107min
Noted French screenwriter Daniele Thompson makes her directorial debut with this lighthearted romantic comedy. After the December 21st funeral of Yvette's (Francoise Fabian) second husband, she is consoled by the three daughters from her first...
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I Do (2006)
Cast: Bernadette Lafont
Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy
Length: 86min
A man tries to hold on to his bachelor lifestyle by getting engaged in this omantic comedy. Luis (Alain Chabat) is a man in his mid-fourties who has been happily unmarried all his life. Luis nearly wed his sweetheart when he was 21, but the meddling...
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21 Grams (2003)
Cast: Benicio Del Toro Naomi Watts Sean Penn Alejandro González Iñárritu Melissa Leo
Tags: Ensemble Film Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 125min
Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu makes his first English-language feature with the downbeat drama 21 Grams. Set in an unnamed U.S. urban center, the film uses a nonlinear structure to piece together the intertwined lives of three very...
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My Wife Is An Actress (2001)
Cast: Terence Stamp
Tags: Romance Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 95min
Actor Yvan Attal follows up on his 1997 directorial debut of I've Got a Woman with this wry omantic comedy about a regular guy dealing with his wife's fame and career. Yvan (Attal) is a youngish sports writer who, through some improbable luck, finds...
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