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Anne Fontaine

Anne Fontaine

Luxembourger film director
July 15, 1959 (65 years old)
Fr. 2024. Biography by Anne Fontaine with Raphaël Personnaz, Doria Tillier, Jeanne Balibar. In 1928, in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, dancer Ida Rubinstein commissioned Maurice Ravel to write the music for her next ballet.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 2021. Comedy by Anne Fontaine with Jean Dujardin, Grégory Gadebois, Doria Tillier. Worried about the future of France, an ex-president of the Republic tries to convince a colleague, who is enjoying a peaceful retirement, to take power together.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2020. Crime drama by Anne Fontaine with Virginie Efira, Omar Sy, Grégory Gadebois. Three Parisian police officers realize that they are signing a deported asylum seeker’s death warrant while escorting him to the airport.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2019. Comedy by Anne Fontaine with Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Huppert, Damien Bonnard. After surviving an attempted murder by her envious mother-in-law, a young woman takes refuge in a village and catches the eye of seven men.

Marvin

V.O.: Marvin ou la belle éducation
Fr. 2017. Drama by Anne Fontaine with Finnegan Oldfield, Jules Porier, Grégory Gadebois. A gay boy from a working-class family in the Vosges channels his experiences into a theatrical solo that is a big hit in Paris.
Runtime: 114 min.

The Innocents

V.O.: Les Innocentes
Fr. 2015. History by Anne Fontaine with Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza. In 1945 Poland, a young intern of the French Red Cross secretly helps nuns who have become pregnant after being raped by Soviet soldiers.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Anne Fontaine with Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng. In Normandy, a baker with a passion for literature observes the extramarital problems faced by an English neighbor who reminds him of the famous heroine in a novel by Flaubert.
Runtime: 99 min.
Aust. 2012. Mores drama by Anne Fontaine with Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel. Defying taboos, two childhood friends in their forties fall in love with each other's sons.
Runtime: 112 min.

My Worst Nightmare

V.O.: Mon pire cauchemar
Fr. 2011. Comedy by Anne Fontaine with Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier. The orderly world of an open-minded Parisian bourgeoise is turned upside down by the intrusion of a rough-hewn Belgian worker into her life.
Runtime: 99 min.

Coco Before Chanel

V.O.: Coco avant Chanel
Fr. 2009. Biography by Anne Fontaine with Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola. The life and beginnings of Gabrielle Chanel, an orphan of modest origins, who became the first great fashion designer in history.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Girl from Monaco

V.O.: La Fille de Monaco
Fr. 2008. Dramatic comedy by Anne Fontaine with Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise Bourgoin. In Monaco, a famous, sexually uptight lawyer falls in love with a wild weather girl who once had an affair with the bodyguard assigned to watch over him.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2006. Comedy by Anne Fontaine with Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, Danielle Darrieux, Arielle Dombasle. An aspiring artist creates a play based on an 18th century text and gives the lead role to a forgotten operetta singer.
Fr. 2005. Psychological drama by Anne Fontaine with Isabelle Carré, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jonathan Zaccaï. Married and mother of a little girl, a young professional is courted by a disturbing veterinarian.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2003. Mores drama by Anne Fontaine with Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu. A gynecologist hires a high-class prostitute who must seduce her unfaithful husband and then tell him about their lovemaking.
Runtime: 106 min.

How I Killed My Father

V.O.: Comment j'ai tué mon père
Fr. 2001. Psychological drama by Anne Fontaine with Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Régnier. A renowned gerontologist is destabilized by the return of his father, a doctor who abandoned him at a young age to go practice in Africa.
Runtime: 95 min.

Dry Cleaning

V.O.: Nettoyage à sec
Fr. 1997. Psychological drama by Anne Fontaine with Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar.
Runtime: 98 min.
Runtime: 61 min.
Fr. 1985. Satire by Patrick Schulmann with Patrick Bruel, Fabrice Luchini, Laurent Gamelon. By various means, four young teachers from a provincial high school team up to eliminate colleagues they consider unworthy of teaching.
Runtime: 98 min.
Runtime: 90 min.

Tender Cousins

V.O.: Tendres Cousines
Fr. 1980. Dramatic comedy by David Hamilton with Thierry Tevini, Anja Schüte, Macha Méril.
Runtime: 90 min.

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