Pauline Lafont

Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman (2016)

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema's most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à ...

Deux minutes de soleil en plus (1988)

A small town in the south of France. Sun, deserted streets. Unshaven, wearing poorly, Vic came, driving his 4x4, his wife has been released from the psychiatric hospital where she was serving a sentence of 5 years for killing their child. But is she really ...

Keep Your Right Up (1987)

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of ...

L'été en pente douce (1987)

When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand ...

Sale Destin (1987)

Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon become ...

Jing du qiu xia (1987)

I Hate Actors (1986)

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyon ...

La Galette du roi (1986)

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King A ...

Le Pactole (1985)

Yves Beaulieu lives with his wife Anne, his daughter Stephanie and his mother-in-law. Tired of his dangerous, thankless, underpaid and unrecognized job as a deminer, Yves decides to try his luck and carries out a robbery in the nearby supermarket. Hunted b ...

Cop au Vin (1985)

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly. ...

Mad Love (1985)

After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him ...

The Bay Boy (1984)

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? ...

Vive les femmes ! (1984)

The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner. ...

Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He i ...

Les Planqués du régiment (1983)

A young engineer, inventor of a dangerous ping-pong ball, which makes him pursued by the American and Russian secret services, finds refuge in a military camp where his irruption sows some semi-catastrophes. ...

Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other) (1976)

This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image. ...