Christiane Cohendy

Le Roman d’un trader (2013)

Phèdre (2003)

Hèdre is queen but doesn't love the king. She prefers his son Hippolytus, whom he had from a first marriage, to Theseus. A guilty love, hidden by feigned hatred, that makes her suffer and perish, and that she can't keep from confessing as soon as she hear ...

Read My Lips (2001)

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself. ...

Salsa (2000)

At age 24, Rémi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years - Salsa! He heads for Paris, the salsa capital of Europe, only to discover to his great surprise, that nobody wants a white boy in La ...

Le Créateur (1999)

A playwright of note, Darius developed a drinking problem after his first major hit, and has taken time out from writing his follow-up to go to a clinic and dry out. After his release, Darius finds his producer has hired a leading lady for his next show, b ...

The Comedian (1997)

Behind the scenes of the theater, while the last performance has just ended, the comedian returns to his box. ...

Mauvais Genre (1997)

The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok promotes his new sexy novel La Fille de Dos ("Girl Observed From the Rear") with a round of book-signings ...

Je m'appelle Régine (1996)

This TV movie is adapted from the memoirs of the singer Régine, in which she recounts her youth and her beginnings in the music hall. ...

The Horseman on the Roof (1995)

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband. ...

Arthur Rimbaud: A Biography (1991)

The tragic life of 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, as told by characters that knew him. ...

Les Deux Fragonard (1989)

The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and out. He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy. In this story, he and his brother C ...

Vent de panique (1987)

Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with children, they abduct her with the intention of selling her into prostitution. At the last moment, having bec ...

Le Matelot 512 (1984)

Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512. ...

Rita Ritter (1984)

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of his work. He then remembers his old Parisian lover Rita, calls himself Rita from then on and becomes her w ...

Toute une nuit (1982)

Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance is examined. ...

The Passerby (1982)

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first ...