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The films of
Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret
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L'Armée des ombres (1969) Jean-Pierre Melville |
L'Aveu (1970) Costa-Gavras |
Comptes à rebours (1971) Roger Pigaut |
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| In this film, director Jean-Pierre Melville draws on his own war-time experiences to paint a vivid and realistic picture of life in the French Resistance during the Second World War... [More...] | Costa-Gavras followed his hugely successful film Z with L’Aveu, the second of what was to become a series of critically acclaimed political thrillers... [More...] |
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La Veuve Couderc (1971) Pierre Granier-Deferre |
Le Chat (1971) Pierre Granier-Deferre |
Police Python 357 (1976) Alain Corneau |
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| Simone Signoret and Alain Delon – two of the most celebrated actors in French cinema – are brought together in this unsettling melodrama... [More...] | This poignant film portrays the remnants of a long dead relationship visibly disintegrating alongside the debris of a faded, long past society. One of the most brutal films about married life ever made in France... [More...] | Police Python 357 is the film that established Alain Corneau as one of France’s most promising young directors in the mid-1970s. He had previously made just one film... [More...] |
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La Vie devant soi (1977) Moshé Mizrahi |
Judith Therpauve (1978) Patrice Chéreau |
L'Adolescente (1979) Jeanne Moreau |
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| Simone Signoret gives arguably her greatest performance in this moving melodrama directed by Moshé Mizrahi. The film explores such issues as racial identity... [More...] | Patrice Chéreau’s second film is this heavy social realist drama featuring a former legend of French cinema, Simone Signoret (now sadly past her best)... [More...] | Having established herself in the 1960s as one of France’s greatest actresses, Jeanne Moreau turned her talents to film making in the 1970s, where she directed two films... [More...] |
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Chère inconnue (1980) Moshé Mizrahi |
L'Étoile du Nord (1982) Pierre Granier-Deferre |
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| After their Oscar winning success in La Vie devant soi, director Moshé Mizrahi and actress Simone Signoret are reunited in this poignant drama revolving around such eternal themes as loneliness... [More...] | Pierre Granier-Deferre directs this unusual mix of melodrama and psychological thriller, his fourth adaptation of a work by the great Belgian crime novelist Georges Simenon... [More...] |
