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Fanny Ardant

Fanny Ardant

French actress
March 22, 1949 (75 years old)

Well Done

V.O.: Complètement cramé!
Fr. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Gilles Legardinier with John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant, Émilie Dequenne. Back at the French estate where he met his late wife, an American is mistakenly hired as a butler by the current owners.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2022. Police comedy by Thierry Klifa with Fanny Ardant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ben Attal. A family of petty thieves, who have stolen a priceless painting, are hunted down by a shrewd female detective.
Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 2022. Drama by Clovis Cornillac with Clovis Cornillac, Léa Drucker, Benoît Poelvoorde. In 1927 in Paris, the heiress of a financial empire is plotting revenge against those who caused her ruin.
Runtime: 135 min.
Fr. 2021. Sentimental drama by Carine Tardieu with Fanny Ardant, Melvil Poupaud, Cécile de France. Seemingly happily married with two children, an oncologist in his mid-forties nevertheless falls madly in love with a retired architect 25 years his senior.
Runtime: 114 min.

DNA

V.O.: ADN
Fr. 2020. Drama by Maïwenn with Maïwenn, Fanny Ardant, Louis Garrel. The death of her Algerian grandfather provokes in a divorced Parisian mother, at odds with her dysfunctional family, a need to know her origins better.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2019. Dramatic comedy by Nicolas Bedos with Daniel Auteuil, Doria Tillier, Guillaume Canet. A disillusioned cartoonist is offered to relive, in a reconstructed studio setting, the evening of May 1974 during which he fell in love with his wife.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2019. Sentimental comedy by Erwan Le Duc with Swann Arlaud, Maud Wyler, Fanny Ardant. In Vosges, the tidy life of a police captain is turned upside down when he meets an insolent young woman who has come to report the theft of her car.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 2017. Psychological drama by Nadir Moknèche with Fanny Ardant, Tewfik Jallab, Nadia Kaci. A young man in search of his father, whom he has not seen since childhood, meets a flamenco teacher who does not dare tell him that she is the one he is looking for.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2014. Sentimental comedy by Jérôme Cornuau with Marina Hands, Éric Elmosnino, Fanny Ardant. To get out of her depression and motivate her stylist boss, a snobbish manager must convince her landscaper, whom she has offended, to act as a muse for the fickle designer.
Runtime: 103 min.

Bright Days Ahead

V.O.: Les Beaux Jours
Fr. 2013. Sentimental drama by Marion Vernoux with Fanny Ardant, Laurent Lafitte, Patrick Chesnais. A married, newly retired dentist begins an affair with a computer instructor twenty-five years her junior.
Runtime: 94 min.

Obsessive Rhythms

V.O.: Cadences obstinées
Fr. 2013. Melodrama by Fanny Ardant with Asia Argento, Nuno Lopes, Franco Nero. A talented musician, who once gave up her career for the love of an architect, feels neglected by the latter, who is absorbed in the renovation of a luxury hotel.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2013. Drama by Josée Dayan with Fanny Ardant, Muriel Robin, Claire Nebout. When the eldest son dies, a family of Bordeaux industrialists is torn apart to decide who will take over the company.
Runtime: 190 min.

The Lookout

V.O.: Le Guetteur
Fr. 2012. Crime drama by Michele Placido with Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet. In Paris, a police commissioner is trying to catch a sniper, a former soldier deployed in Afghanistan, who is teaming up with bank robbers.
Runtime: 89 min.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2011. History by Josée Dayan with Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Vladimir Mashkov. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a debauched monk who claims to be a healer becomes an influential member of the court of Tsar Nicholas II and the confidant of his wife.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2011. Sentimental drama by Josée Dayan with Fanny Ardant, Charles Berling, Laurent Grévill. The life of a married architect is turned upside down by the return into her life of a childhood love, who has moved into the building across the street.
Runtime: 95 min.
Taïw. 2009. Essay film by Tsai Ming-liang with Lee Kang-sheng, Yi-Ching Lu, Fanny Ardant.
Runtime: 138 min.
Fr. 2009. by Fanny Ardant.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Graham Guit with Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Lior Ashkenazi. A Jewish gynecologist, urged on by his goyish wife, leaves Paris to return with her to Israel, but their journey is fraught with difficulties.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Dominique Pinon, Audrey Dana, Fanny Ardant. While looking for ideas for a new book, the ghostwriter of a successful novelist meets a hairdresser who has been dumped by her lover.
Runtime: 105 min.

L'Odeur du sang

V.O.: L'odore del sangue
Runtime: 100 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.

8 Women

V.O.: 8 Femmes
Fr. 2001. Police comedy by François Ozon with Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart. In an isolated manor house, the discovery of the master of the house stabbed to death in his bed arouses mutual suspicion among the eight women in his immediate circle.
Runtime: 108 min.

Don't Tempt Me

V.O.: Sin Noticias de Dios
Esp. 2001. Fantasy comedy by Agustin Diaz Yanes with Victoria Abril, Penélope Cruz, Demian Bichir. Two female angels, one from heaven, the other from hell, fight over the soul of a young boxer with a brain tumour.
Runtime: 117 min.
Fr. 2000. Comedy by Gabriel Aghion with Vincent Pérez, Fanny Ardant, Michel Serrault. While writing the article in his encyclopedia dealing with morality, the philosopher Diderot indulges in a life of provocative hedonism.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1999. Biography by Josée Dayan with Gérard Depardieu, Jeanne Moreau, Fanny Ardant. The life of the French writer Honor

The Frenchman's Son

V.O.: Le Fils du Français
Fr. 1999. Adventures by Gérard Lauzier with David-Alexandre Parquier, Josiane Balasko, Fanny Ardant. Eager to see his father, who is searching for gold in Brazil, a Parisian kid goes to the Amazon accompanied by his two grandmothers who hate each other.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1999. Mores comedy by Claude Berri with Claude Berri, Fanny Ardant, Claude Brasseur. A sexagenarian auctioneer explores various ways to deal with recent erectile dysfunction.
G.-B. 1998. History by Shekhar Kapur with Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes. In the sixteenth century, Elizabeth becomes queen of England, which is torn by religious conflicts.
Runtime: 121 min.

The Dinner

V.O.: La Cena
It. 1998. Mores comedy by Ettore Scola with Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli. During an evening, the tribulations of the staff and the customers of a Roman restaurant hosted by an attentive patroness.
Fr. 1996. Mores comedy by Gabriel Aghion with Patrick Timsit, Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1996. Dramatic comedy by Patrice Leconte with Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1995. Dramatic comedy by Sydney Pollack with Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear.
Runtime: 113 min.
Fr. 1994. Psychological drama by Yves Angelo with Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1994. Fantasy comedy by Agnès Varda with Michel Piccoli, Julie Gayet, Marcello Mastroianni. A student becomes a maid to an old man who entertains movie stars in his home while recalling movie memories.
Runtime: 125 min.
Fr. 1992. Sentimental drama by Joël Farges with Andrzej Seweryn, Fanny Ardant, Bernard Le Coq. In 1939, in the depths of India, a German doctor desperately pursues the wife of a prominent man who wants to have a secret abortion.
Runtime: 88 min.
G.-B. 1991. Psychological drama by Mark Peploe with Ben Keyworth, Fanny Ardant, James Fox. An eleven-year-old boy with eye problems invents an imaginary world in which those closest to him turn out to be blind and plagued by misfortune.
Runtime: 91 min.

Adventure de Catherine C.

V.O.: Aventure de Catherine C.
Fr. 1989. Psychological drama by Pierre Beuchot with Fanny Ardant, Hanna Schygulla, Robin Renucci. In Vienna in the 1930s, an actress is staying with a rich baroness to whom she narrates her love life.
Bel. 1989. Drama by Jean-Jacques Andrien with Jeremy Irons, Fanny Ardant, Tcheky Karyo. A Belgian who has moved to Australia returns to his hometown to save his family's business and falls in love with a married woman.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 1988. History by Nina Companeez with Fanny Ardant, Philippe Laudenbach, Raphaëlle Spencer. In 1789, when the Bastille has just been taken, a countess gives a party in her castle that brings together guests with very antagonistic ideas.
Fr. 1988. History by Nina Companeez with Fanny Ardant, Bernard Giraudeau, Francis Huster. In 1793, a deposed French countess leaves for Italy, while three of her ex-companions follow opposite fates.
Fr. 1988. History by Nina Companeez with Fanny Ardant, Bernard Giraudeau, Francis Huster. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, four childhood friends meet at a Parisian ball after having lived different lives.

Trois Soeurs

V.O.: Paura e amore
It. 1988. Dramatic comedy by Margarethe von Trotta with Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino. The romantic impulses and disappointments of three sisters living in northern Italy.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1988. History by Nina Companeez with Fanny Ardant, Bernard Giraudeau, Francis Huster. In 1791, two aristocrats fleeing the Republicans join the royalist emigrants who took refuge in Coblence.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1987. Social drama by Laurent Heynemann with Fanny Ardant, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Perrin. During the war in Biafra, doctors found an independent organization to take care of victims.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Family

V.O.: La Famiglia
It. 1987. Chronicle by Ettore Scola with Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Fanny Ardant. Eighty years of history through the prism of an Italian bourgeois family.
Runtime: 127 min.

Paltoquet

V.O.: Le Paltoquet
Fr. 1986. Police comedy by Michel Deville with Michel Piccoli, Jean Yanne, Fanny Ardant. While investigating the murder of a stranger, a commissioner focuses his search on the regulars of a seedy caf
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1986. Sentimental drama by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Pierre Arditi. The wife of a violinist becomes the mistress of her husband's friend and thinks of killing him.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1986. Police comedy by Costa-Gavras with Johnny Hallyday, Fanny Ardant, Rémi Martin. A burglar imposes a respectable facade on his family while continuing his thefts with the help of his young son.
Runtime: 127 min.
Fr. 1985. Dramatic comedy by Pierre-William Glenn with Fanny Ardant, François Cluzet, Jean-Roger Milo.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1984. Drama by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, André Dussollier. A young woman is shocked when her seemingly dead spouse quickly comes back to life.
Runtime: 92 min.

Next Summer

V.O.: L'Été prochain
Fr. 1984. Dramatic comedy by Nadine Trintignant with Philippe Noiret, Claudia Cardinale, Fanny Ardant. The tribulations of parents and children in a large family.
Runtime: 109 min.

Confidentially Yours

V.O.: Vivement dimanche
Fr. 1983. Police comedy by François Truffaut with Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach. A sassy secretary embarks on an investigation to save her boss who is accused of a double murder.
Runtime: 111 min.
It. 1983. Psychological drama by Anna Maria Tato with Fanny Ardant, Francesca de Sapio, Carlo Giuffré. The return of a journalist to her home town awakens repressed childhood memories.
Runtime: 96 min.
Bel. 1983. Psychological drama by André Delvaux with Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Françoise Fabian. A screenwriter visits a middle-aged woman whose possibly autobiographical novel he wants to adapt for the screen.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1982. Satire by Alain Resnais with Raimondo Ruggeri, Vittorio Gassman, Sabine Azéma. A castle in the Ardennes serves as a setting for research about happiness in different eras.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1981. Psychological drama by Marcel Cravenne with Fanny Ardant, Martine Chevallier, François Marthouret.

The Woman Next Door

V.O.: La Femme d'à côté
Fr. 1981. Psychological drama by François Truffaut with Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Véronique Silver. Unbeknownst to their respective spouses, a man and a woman resume a previous affair.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1979. Mores drama by Alain Jessua with Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1976. Psychological drama by Joël Séria with Jeanne Goupil, André Dussollier, Bernard Fresson. A doll collector marries a naive teenage girl whom he treats like a living doll.
Runtime: 120 min.

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