Marie Rivière
Birthday: 1956-12-22
Place of Birth: Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
Biography: Marie Rivière (born 22 December 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with director Éric Rohmer. From a working-class background, Marie Rivière grew up on a housing estate/project in Montreuil before working as a schoolteacher, then as a shop assistant. At 21, having seen L'Amour l'après-midi, she sent a letter and photo to Éric Rohmer. He saw her in his office at Les films du losange, in the presence of Arielle Dombasle and Thierry Lhermitte, and offered her a small role in Perceval le Gallois. Two years later she appeared in Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife, the first in the Comédies et Proverbes series. The Green Ray, in which she played the fragile dreamer Delphine, was a critical and popular success, and won the Golden Lion at Venice. In 1998 she appeared again for Rohmer in Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale), alongside another Rohmer muse, Béatrice Romand. She co-directed her first film in 1993, with Marc Rivière, La Règle du Silence.
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A Tale of Winter
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact...
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A Tale of Autumn
Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friend...
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Time to Leave
Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to li...
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The Lady and the Duke
Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...
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The Aviator's Wife
A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out w...
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Raison perdue
A young girl accuses her parents of being murderers. Hurriedly committed to an asylum, she attracts ...
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Folie suisse
Adrien Daubigny, director at INSEE, warns his wife Anna that he now wants to lead his life by chance...
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The Stolen Diary
A young woman in a lesbian relationship keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her....
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Girls Can't Swim
Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes ev...
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Hideaway (Le refuge)
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day...
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Marinaleda
Marinaleda features two philosophical vampires trying to reach the self-managed village of Marinaled...
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Les lutteurs immobiles
The consumer society is dead. Welcome to the preservation society! As of their first school year, ch...
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My Sense of Modesty
Hafsia, a student in Art History, is going to have to remove her hijab for an oral exam. She goes to...
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The Green Ray
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacatio...
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Just the Two of Us
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly,...
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Under the Snow
In a city covered by snow, the young Paul lives alone with his mother since his father left. Not far...
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Memory Lane
August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up....
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Life the Way It Is
Agnes leaves school and moves with a friend to a housing project in Bagnolet. Engaged as a clerk, sh...
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Le bonheur se porte large
Bruno Tessier, a wise executive, was on his way to join his wife and children on vacation on the Côt...
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Bright Days Ahead
Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of h...
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Le Canapé rouge
How to stay at your lover's side (who's married to another woman) all day long without anyone notici...
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Shreklife
Five childhood friends reunite for the first time after the death of their classmate Pedro, an uncon...
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Rosette vend des roses
A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, feat...
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Marie-Line
A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in t...
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Sex, Love & Therapy
Lambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He stay...
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Clandestino
A child, secret war refugee, deceived by his father, is taken in by a man living in the solitude of ...
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Zéro défaut
A car factory, assembly lines, robots. And men and women whose... Michèle moves to the night shift, ...
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Adrien's Sleep
Marie lives with her daughter in a large Parisian apartment. She rents a room to a student: Adrien....
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Down by Love
A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story....
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Catherine de Heilbronn
In the Middle Ages, the earl Wetter von Stahl is accused of having bewitched Catherine, the daughter...
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This Summer Feeling
In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence ...
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Chassé-croisé
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine a...
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Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
In this coming of age drama, 17-year old Muriel rebels against her French family and leaves for the ...
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Love Is in the Air
Yann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots’ abilities under extreme conditions on fligh...
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a f...
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Samia
Samia is a teenage girl belonging to a family of Algerian Muslims who have settled in the southern F...
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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer'...
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Médiumnité
A young woman unsatisfied with her life and her marriage discovers gifts of medium....
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Féminin plurielles
Sweet works in a hospital as a nurse. A new patient has just been admitted. Her mysterious side and ...
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Courted
When a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte Lore...
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El Turrrf
Paris, at night. Pierre lands up in a club, El Turrrf, and meets two young ladies. Pom and Clémentin...
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Cinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest...
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Venus Beauty Institute
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train sta...
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Dark Flow
As every summer, a man and a woman spend time in their country house by the forest. They have moved ...
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Actresses
Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month ...
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My Donkey, My Lover & I
Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret...
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The Adventures of Rosette
A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer....
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Perceval
The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of th...
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Eva voudrait
Éva, thirty-nine, lives alone. She would like to have a child. She may not have much time left. A gy...
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A Castle in Italy
Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, ...
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Queen Mom
Amel and her family learn that their landlord wants to get his apartment back in a few months. While...
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The Asembly Line
A few months after May '68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a far-left activi...
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Washed Ashore
Elise lives alone in an apartment on the coast of Brittany. ONe day, on an isolated beach where she ...
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At Work
A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty....
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Deux rivages
One day, Ovidiu makes a strange discovery in the pond next to his house: a stained woman's jacket. T...
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Heart to Heart
The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three s...
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