Biography: Yves Montand |
Though regarded by many fans as a Frenchman through and through, Yves Montand was actually born in Italy, just outside Florence. After his anti-fascist parents fled his homeland to avoid the wrath of Mussolini, Montand grew up in the less fashionable... more
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Length: 143min
Yves Montand (1921-1991), like many leading men of his era, left a life offscreen which was at least as dramatic as anything he portrayed onscreen. The beloved Italian/French singer and actor speaks for himself in this documentary, compiled...
IP5: L'Île aux Pachydermes (1992)
Tags: Road Movie Drama
Length: 119min
In this French adventure, two Parisian street kids embark upon a strange journey to Grenoble in the back of a delivery truck. One of the lads is an adolescent Spanish graffiti artist while the other is an 11-year-old black rapper. Once there, the...
Tags: Period Film Rural Drama Drama
Length: 122min
Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farming community. City dweller Jean Cadoret (Gérard...
Netchaïev Est de Retour (1991)
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 101min
Very few people know that Pierre Marroux (Yves Montand) is the father of the famous terrorist Netchaiev (Vincent Lindon), and that's the way he likes to keep it. His boy is now presumed to be dead, and he has a job to do, protecting the safety of...
Cast: Catherine Deneuve Yves Montand
Tags: Gangster Film Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 135min
This French production concerns a gangster (Yves Montand) who retires to the countryside after living a full life of traditional crime. After settling into his new residence with his wife (Catherine Deneuve), his home is invaded by an unruly punk...
Trois Places Pour Le 26 (1988)
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Romance Musical Musical Comedy Romantic Comedy Musical Romance
Length: 103min
Yves Montand plays himself in this musical romantic comedy by Jacques Demy. Demy and Michel Legrand wrote the songs with Montand in mind as a tribute to the famous French singer and actor in his most celebrated roles. Choreography is provided by...
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama Romance
Length: 102min
Yves Montand stars in this French seriocomedy as a middle-aged waiter. He has long harbored dreams of becoming a singer, and is also anxious to prove he's as virile as he was when he started pushing plates. Montand gets a chance to rev up his sexual...
Cast: Gérard Depardieu Emmanuelle Béart Daniel Auteuil Claude Berri
Tags: Rural Drama Melodrama Drama
Length: 113min
Manon of the Spring (Manon des Sources) has also been released as Jean de Florette II in the US, as it is a sequel to Claude Berri's Jean de Florette. Both films are drawn from the same source: Filmmaker/novelist Marcel Pagnol's 1952 rural romance,...
Cast: Isabelle Adjani Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Tags: Comedy
Length: 108min
Yves Montand is Victor Valance, a long-lost father who has come home to his brood of daughters and his mother in order to weazel some money out of them to front a gambling casino. Unable to tell them the real reason he wants the money, he just says it...
Carne: L'Homme A La Camera (1980)
Cast: Marcel Carné
Tags: Biography
Length: 80min
This was 76-year-old director Christian-Jacque's last film before his retirement, and it is dedicated to one of his contemporaries, Marcel Carne. Carne's film history is extolled through clips from some of his award-winning or acclaimed works such as...
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