Christine Pascal

Christine Pascal

Birthday: 1953-11-29

Place of Birth: Lyon, Rhône, France

Biography: Christine Pascal (29 November 1953 – 30 August 1996) was a French actress, writer and director. Born in Lyon, Rhône, Pascal made her film debut at 21 in Michel Mitrani's Les Guichets du Louvre (1974), and began a working relationship with Bertrand Tavernier in her next film, L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974). Other films with Tavernier include Que la fête commence (1975), for which she received a César nomination for Best Supporting Actress; The Judge and the Assassin (1976); Des enfants gatés (1977), which she co-scripted; and Round Midnight. Other film appearances include Black Thursday (1974), La Meilleure façon de marcher (1976), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Entre Nous (1983), and Le Grand Chemin (1987). She made her directorial debut with Félicité, and also directed La Garce, Zanzibar, Le Petit prince a dit (which won the Louis Delluc Prize) and Adultère, mode d'emploi. Source: Article "Christine Pascal" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Spoiled Children
Spoiled Children

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself...

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The Watchmaker of St. Paul
The Watchmaker of St. Paul

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When t...

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'Round Midnight
'Round Midnight

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w...

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The Grand Highway
The Grand Highway

Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His m...

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See How They Fall
See How They Fall

A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earl...

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Promised... sworn!
Promised... sworn!

The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation...

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Hell Train
Hell Train

Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight br...

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The Best Way to Walk
The Best Way to Walk

In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night, Mar...

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Le Sourire
Le Sourire

An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack i...

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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Let Joy Reign Supreme

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppressio...

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Elle voulait faire du cinéma
Elle voulait faire du cinéma

Biopic of French film pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché, considered the world's first female director, who di...

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Subterfuge
Subterfuge

After committing a hit and run, a man insinuates himself into the lives of the victim's family....

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Sincerely Charlotte
Sincerely Charlotte

In a most unusual, near menage a trois, Charlotte is a terrified young singer who is forced to hide ...

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Paco the Infallible
Paco the Infallible

In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid v...

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Surprise Sock
Surprise Sock

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhil...

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The Maids of Wilko
The Maids of Wilko

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a c...

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Félicité
Félicité

After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipa...

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We Forget Everything!
We Forget Everything!

Anne, who has just had an argument with her boyfriend Vassili, is put up for the night by Jacques an...

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The Indians Are Still Far Away
The Indians Are Still Far Away

A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs...

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Entre Nous
Entre Nous

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Mea...

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Nothing But Lies
Nothing But Lies

Frustrated with her life, a Parisian tells her philandering husband about her lover....

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The Patriots
The Patriots

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent ...

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Black Thursday
Black Thursday

In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportati...

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The Color of the Wind
The Color of the Wind

Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States....

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Le Sixième Doigt
Le Sixième Doigt

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La Travestie
La Travestie

Nicole is a female attorney who is frustrated with the male-dominated world of provincial law. She e...

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Before Midnight
Before Midnight

Filmmaker Jean Achache shot extensively on the set of ’Round Midnight. This documentary presents tha...

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Journal d'un montage
Journal d'un montage

A documentary made during the post-production phase of Christine Pascal's last film, Adultère, mode ...

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Le Docteur noir
Le Docteur noir

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