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Jeanne Balibar

Jeanne Balibar

French actress and singer
April 13, 1968 (56 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.

Les Indésirables

V.O.: Bâtiment 5
Fr. 2023. Social drama by Ladj Ly with Anta Diaw, Alexis Manenti, Jeanne Balibar. The new mayor of a suburban town clashes with a young employee, the daughter of immigrants, determined to prevent him from implementing his right-wing policies.
Suis. 2023. Drama by Maxime Rappaz with Jeanne Balibar, Thomas Sarbacher, Pierre-Antoine Dubey. Caring for her handicapped son alone, a home-based seamstress, who seduces travelers passing through the hotel every Tuesday, becomes attached to one of them.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 2021. Drama by Xavier Giannoli with Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France, Vincent Lacoste. In Paris, during the Restoration, an ambitious provincial poet becomes a formidable cultural journalist, courted by both liberal and royalist circles.
Runtime: 150 min.
Col. 2021. Poetic drama by Apichatpong Weerasethakul with Tilda Swinton, Elkin Diaz, Jeanne Balibar. In Bogota, a Scottish botanist is trying to find the source of the loud, metallic sound she hears in her head.
Runtime: 136 min.

Dancing On

V.O.: Alors on danse
Fr. 2021. Sentimental comedy by Michèle Laroque with Michèle Laroque, Isabelle Nanty, Thierry Lhermitte. After learning about her husband’s infidelity, a socialite seeks refuge with her free-spirited sister who drags her into a dance class for the elderly.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2019. Social drama by Ladj Ly with Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djibril Zonga. A police officer’s first day in a poor suburb is marked by a dramatic incident that could jeopardize the careers of his corrupt colleagues.
Runtime: 105 min.

Cold War

V.O.: Zimna Wojna
Pol. 2018. Chronicle by Pawel Pawlikowski with Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, Borys Szyc. From 1949 to 1964, a complicated love story between a Polish musician who defected, and a whimsical singer who was blackmailed by the authorities.
Runtime: 84 min.
Fr. 2017. Essay film by Mathieu Amalric with Mathieu Amalric, Jeanne Balibar, Lisa Ray-Jacobs. A renowned actress is hired by a neurotic director to play the role of Barbara in a film about the life of the legendary singer.
Runtime: 98 min.

Never Ever

V.O.: À jamais
Fr. 2016. Drama by Benoît Jacquot with Mathieu Amalric, Julia Roy, Jeanne Balibar. A possibly supernatural presence, lurking in their seaside home, drives a wedge between two newly married artists.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 2015. Crime drama by Josée Dayan with Catherine Frot, Jeanne Balibar, Julie Depardieu. A police officer tracks down a serial killer who targets lonely women to steal their identities.
Runtime: 100 min.

À l'âge d'Ellen

V.O.: Im Alter von Ellen
All. 2010. by Pia Marais with Jeanne Balibar.
Bel. 2009. Animation by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar. A cowboy, a Native American and a horse chase after strange sea creatures that have stolen the brick walls of their home.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 2009. Drama by Josée Dayan with Muriel Robin, Sandor Funtek, Jeanne Balibar. In 1980 in Angouleme, a divorced teacher and mother of two children begins an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2008. Biography by Diane Kurys with Sylvie Testud, Pierre Palmade, Jeanne Balibar. The tumultuous life and career of the writer Françoise Sagan, from her first novel published in 1954 to her death in 2004 at the age of 69.
Runtime: 121 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.

The Joy of Singing

V.O.: Le Plaisir de chanter
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Ilan Duran Cohan with Marina Foïs, Lorant Deutsch, Jeanne Balibar. In order to retrieve a flash drive held by the wife of a murdered uranium smuggler, two undercover agents enroll in the singing class attended by the widow.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Maïwenn with Maïwenn, Jeanne Balibar, Romane Bohringer. A filmmaker decides to film the intimacy of eleven actresses for a documentary on the various facets of their profession.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Duchess of Langeais

V.O.: Ne touchez pas la hache
Fr. 2006. Psychological drama by Jacques Rivette with Guillaume Depardieu, Jeanne Balibar, Bulle Ogier. In the 19th century in Paris, a general in Napoleon's army falls madly in love with a duchess who continually adds to his torment by rejecting his advances.
Runtime: 137 min.
Fr. 2004. Psychological drama by Olivier Assayas with Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle. The widow of a famous rock musician who died of an overdose must give up drugs if she wants to see her son, who is being raised by his in-laws, again.
Runtime: 111 min.
G.-B. 2003. Science-fiction by Michael Winterbottom with Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Jeanne Balibar. In a future where citizens are confined to overcrowded cities, an investigator falls in love with a young woman who traffics fake visas.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2003. Psychological drama by Jean-Paul Civeyrac with Jeanne Balibar, Renaud Bécard, Bulle Ogier. Upon learning that her late father had a mistress, a cellist returns to her native Brittany in search of this mysterious woman.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2001. Sentimental comedy by Jacques Rivette with Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Jacques Bonnaffé. Sentimental crossroads around a French actress living in Rome who sees her ex-lover again during a tour of Paris.
Runtime: 154 min.
Fr. 2001. Drama by Amalia Escriva with Jeanne Balibar, Bruno Todeschini, Dominique Blanc. In Algiers, in 1903, a young woman from a family of Spanish colonists commits suicide after learning a terrible family secret.
Runtime: 88 min.

A Private Affair

V.O.: Une Affaire privée
Fr. 2001. Crime drama by Guillaume Nicloux with Thierry Lhermitte, Marion Cotillard, Philippe Nahon. At the request of the mother, a clueless private detective takes over the police investigation into the disappearance of a young woman.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2000. Dramatic comedy by Raúl Ruiz with Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Charles Berling. On his ninth birthday, a boy obsessed with his video camera claims he is the son of a woman other than his mother.
Fr. 2000. Mores comedy by Jeanne Labrune with Nathalie Baye, Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. The routine life of a bourgeois couple is shaken up when an unstable woman gives them an old chest of drawers as a gift.

Versailles-Chantiers

V.O.: Dieu seul me voit
Fr. 1998. Sentimental comedy by Bruno Podalydès with Denis Podalydès, Jeanne Balibar, Isabelle Candelier. A greatly indecisive man doesn't know how to make a choice between the three women that he is seeing.
Runtime: 130 min.

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