Stéphane Varupenne

The Wonderers (2025)

Set against the backdrop of a summer on the French riviera, the Roussier family and its fragile equilibrium is shaped by the uncertain diagnosis of 13-year-old Bertille, who suffers from a severe disability. Her parents and older sister Marion live in cons ...

The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)

Edmond Dantès becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d'If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of ...

King Lear (2023)

King Lear, as he ages, decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. However, the transfer of power comes with one condition: a declaration of love from each of them to their father. If Regan and Goneril serve him t ...

Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite (2022)

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth on 15 January 2022, Ivo van Hove reunited with the Troupe for their third collaboration, a production of Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite, the original version in three acts, banned at its premiere in ...

Guermantes (2021)

Paris, sum­mer 2020. Actors from "la Comédie-Française", France's most pres­ti­gious the­ater, rehearse Christophe Hon­oré's new play, an adap­ta­tion of Mar­cel Proust's "The Guer­mantes Way". When the show is sud­den­ly can­celed, the dra ...

Ballade de Melody Nelson (2021)

Comme une pierre qui roule : 1965, en studio avec Bob Dylan (2021)

In 1965, Bob Dylan recorded "Like a Rolling Stone", one of the greatest songs of all time... A recreation of a show given by the troupe of the Comedie-Francaise from the book of Greil Marcus. ...

Petite Maman (2021)

After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her c ...

La Comédie-Française chante Gainsbourg (2021)

Fin de règne (2019)

A young hopeful of cinema and his entourage spend a holiday by a lake. It may finally be the last night of patriarchy. ...

Opération Finot (2019)

Charles Finot, a municipal employee, becomes the scapegoat of a local corruption scandal. A wild, wacky escape ensues. When he learns that he has been betrayed by Ada, his colleague and the woman he's in love with, Charles must take matters into his own ha ...

Godard Mon Amour (2017)

In 1967, during the making of "La Chinoise," film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her. ...

Cyrano de Bergerac (2017)

Cyrano has a prominent nose but also a gift with words by which he helps handsome Christian to conquer Roxane. Also in love with the girl he chooses not to reveal to her that every word of Christian comes out of his own heart. In cinema, this ROSTAND class ...

Chocolat (2016)

Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their to ...

Quartet (2015)

Temptation and danger run high in this romantic drama. In a post-World War I world, handsome veteran Antoine is ready to live life with his beautiful wife, Marianne. But his happiness is threatened when Marianne's alluring sister, Evelyn, pulls him into a ...

Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça! (2013)

With the President of the Republic very ill, an advisor offers an unusual suggestion: hire a double to replace him during his convalescence. The lucky chosen one is a member of the Comédie-Française but he is also shy, unexciting and often consigned to t ...

L'Avare (2009)

A staging of Molière's play "The Miser" by Catherine Hiegel. ...

Fanny (2008)

L'amour au soleil (2003)

The story of two couples, one teenage, the other grandparents, living parallel love stories. ...