The Best Emmanuelle Devos Movies
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1Audrey Tautou, Alessandro Nivola, Bernard FrรฉdรฉricCoco Before Chanel is a 2009 French film about the early life of famed French fashion designer Coco Chanel. French actor Audrey Tautou stars as Chanel. Coco avant Chanel was directed and co-written by actor turned director Anne Fontaine. The film was first released in April 2009 in France. As of 21 December that year, it had grossed $43,832,376 worldwide. The production budget was $23 million. Instead of releasing Coco Before Chanel in the United States itself, Warner Bros. Pictures let Sony Pictures Classics handle the release there. The film grossed $6 million in the United States. Coco Before Chanel was nominated for four BAFTA Awards, three European Film Awards, six Cรฉsar Awards and the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
2Valentina Cervi, Michel Serrault, Emmanuelle DevosArtemisia is a 1997 French/Italian/German biographical film about Artemisia Gentileschi, the female Italian Baroque painter. The film was directed by Agnรจs Merlet, and stars Valentina Cervi and Michel Serrault.
3Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier GourmetRead My Lips is a 2001 French film by Jacques Audiard, co-written with Tonino Benacquista. The film stars Vincent Cassel as Paul, an ex-con on parole, and Emmanuelle Devos as Carla, a nearly deaf secretary whose colleagues treat her disrespectfully, causing her to suffer. Despite their different backgrounds and initial fear of each other, they end up intimately related and helping each other.
4Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte Girardot, Emmanuelle DevosMiddle-aged Victor (Hippolyte Girardot) becomes determined to find out the fate of his grandparents during the Holocaust. When his impenetrable mother, Rivka (Jeanne Moreau), refuses to address his questions, Victor launches an investigation into a dark past that will test the strength of their relationship. The search becomes a family affair as Victor enlists the help of his wife, Franรงoise (Emmanuelle Devos), and young children in an increasingly frantic attempt to uncover the truth.
5Ian Holm, Summer Phoenix, Frances BarberEsther Kahn is the first English-language film by the French director Arnaud Desplechin. It premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival but was not distributed to the United States for two years until it played in New York City in 2002. Deplechin adapted the screenplay with regular collaborator Emmanuel Bourdieu from a short story by Arthur Symons of the same name from his book Spiritual Adventures. It stars Summer Phoenix as Esther and Ian Holm as her friend and teacher, Nathan Quellen.
6Valeria Golino, Irรจne Jacob, Marjane SatrapiThe French Kissers is a 2009 French teen film. Its original French title is Les Beaux Gosses, which means "the handsome boys". It was written and directed by Riad Sattouf, marking his film debut. The film follows Hervรฉ, an average teenage boy who has little luck with finding a girlfriend until the beautiful Aurore takes a liking to him. Sattouf, a graphic novel writer, was invited to write a script based on an idea from producer Anne-Dominique Toussaint, and he completed the screenplay with Marc Syrigas. Sattouf cast non-professional actors as the film's teenage characters, but he chose to use experienced actors such as Noรฉmie Lvovsky, Irรจne Jacob, Emmanuelle Devos and Valeria Golino as the adult characters. Filming took place over eight weeks in Gagny and Rennes. The film was released in France on 10 June 2009, and a soundtrack composed by Flairs was released on 8 June 2009. The film was well received by critics, who particularly praised the humour, the acting and the cinematography. It won the 2010 Cรฉsar Award for Best First Feature Film and Lacoste also received a nomination for the Cรฉsar Award for Most Promising Actor.
7Mathieu Amalric, รdouard Baer, Emmanuelle DevosWild Grass is a 2009 French film directed by Alain Resnais. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.
8Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh Dan PhamTom Seyr (Romain Duris), a violent thug with a heart, grows weary of cracking heads for his smarmy, mediocre gangster father, Robert (Niels Arestrup), and longs for a chance at something else. A fortuitous encounter prompts Tom to renew his classical piano playing, like his mother before him, and he begins to study with piano teacher Miao Lin (Linh Dan Pham). But when he starts a passionate affair with Aline (Aure Atika), the wife of one of his cronies, his new happiness may be short-lived.
9Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura SmetGilles' Wife is a 2004 drama film directed by Frรฉdรฉric Fonteyne.
10Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle DevosKings and Queen is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Mรฉliรจs and the Cรฉsar Award for Best Actor. In addition, it was nominated for Cรฉsar awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Most Promising Actress and Best Writing.
11Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Mathieu AmalricA Christmas Tale is a 2008 French comedy-drama film by Arnaud Desplechin, starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuelle Devos and Chiara Mastroianni. It tells the story of a family with strained relationships which gathers at the parents' home for Christmas, only to learn that their mother has leukemia. It was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
12Cours toujours
Emmanuelle Devos, Rona Hartner, Clรยฉment SibonyCours toujours (English: Dad on the Run) is a 2000 comedy film directed by Dante Desarthe.
13Forget Me
Emmanuelle Devos, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Philippe TorretonForget Me is a 1994 drama film written by Marc Cholodenko, Sophie Filliรจres, Emmanuel Salinger and directed by Noรฉmie Lvovsky.
14Nearest to Heaven
Catherine Deneuve, Paulina Porizkova, William Hurt
15Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle DevosLa Moustache is a French film from 2005, directed by Emmanuel Carrรจre and starring Vincent Lindon, and adapted from Carrรจre's own novel. The film features music from Philip Glass. The film was awarded the Label Europa Cinemas prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and is currently distributed theatrically in the United States by the Cinema Guild with a DVD release handled by Koch-Lorber Films.
16Marion Cotillard, Mathieu Amalric, Jeanne BalibarMy Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument is a 1996 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Cรฉsar Award for Most Promising Actor and was also nominated for Most Promising Actress.
17Accomplices
Gilbert Melki, Joana Preiss, Emmanuelle DevosAccomplices is a 2009 crime film written by Frรฉdรฉric Mermoud and Pascal Arnold and directed by Frรฉdรฉric Mermoud.
18Maybe
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Romain Duris, Julie DepardieuPeut-รชtre is a 1999 French science fiction comedy film. Directed by Cรฉdric Klapisch with a budget of 75 million franc, the film runs for 109 minutes. It featured Romain Duris, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gรฉraldine Pailhas and Julie Depardieu. The film premiered at a Buck Rogers-themed New Year's Eve party.
19Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues AngladeA playwright (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) stands to inherit money from her dying father, while getting reacquainted with her former love.
20In the Beginning
Franรงois Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos, Gรฉrard DepardieuA con man passes himself off as a construction boss and starts to build a highway extension, enjoying the profits of his scam until he meets a lady mayor, who brings out his feelings.
21Yvan Attal, Sandrine Kiberlain, Allen GarfieldA young French Jew (Yvan Attal) experiences a crisis of conscience while working for Israel's Mossad in 1987.
22Park Benches
Catherine Deneuve, Amira Casar, Chiara MastroianniPark Benches is a 2009 French film directed by Bruno Podalydรจs, with an all-star cast.
23Unspoken
Emmanuelle Devos, Bruno Todeschini, Nade DieuUnspoken is a 2008 film directed by Fien Troch.
24The Adversary
Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Devos, Franรงois BerlรฉandThe Adversary is a 2002 French drama film directed by Nicole Garcia, starring Daniel Auteuil and Gรฉraldine Pailhas. Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrรจre, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrรจre's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. At the Cรฉsar Awards 2003 Auteuil was nominated as Best actor, Franรงois Cluzet as Best supporting actor and Emmanuelle Devos as Best supporting actress.
