The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
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The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses is a book by Mick LaSalle, film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and Hearst Newspapers, that highlights an explosion of female talent in French cinema. Scores of French actresses are doing the best work of their lives in movies tailored to their star images and unique personalities. To spend time with them, to admire their flashing intelligence and fearless willingness to depict life as it is lived, gives us what we're looking for in movies but so rarely find: insights into womanhood, meditations on the dark and light aspect's of life's journey, revelations and explorations that move viewers to reflect on their own lives. The stories they bring to the screen leave us feeling renewed and excited about movies again. This list below is from Appendix Two of LaSalle's book. It includes films that are available in English subtitled editions and are mentioned in his book or his suggestions that did not make the text.
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Actrices
2007 — a.k.a. Actresses, in 0 top lists Check -
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L'adversaire
2002 — a.k.a. The Adversary, in 0 top lists Check -
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Ah! Si j'étais riche
2002 — a.k.a. If I Were a Rich Man, in 0 top lists Check -
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Un air de famille
1996 — a.k.a. Family Resemblances, in 1 top list Check -
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Alice et Martin
1998 — a.k.a. Alice and Martin, in 0 top lists Check -
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Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
2001 — a.k.a. Amélie, in 27 top lists Check -
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Les ambitieux
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
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L'amour braque
1985 — a.k.a. Mad Love, in 0 top lists Check -
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Anatomie de l'enfer
2004 — a.k.a. Anatomy of Hell, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants
2004 — a.k.a. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After, in 0 top lists Check -
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Anna M.
2007, in 0 top lists Check -
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Anthony Zimmer
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
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Après lui
2007, in 0 top lists Check -
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Fauteuils d'orchestre
2006 — a.k.a. Avenue Montaigne, in 0 top lists Check -
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Backstage
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
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Le bal des actrices
2009 — a.k.a. All About Actresses, in 0 top lists Check -
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La balance
1982, in 2 top lists Check -
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La balia
1999 — a.k.a. The Nanny, in 0 top lists Check -
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Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre
2001 — a.k.a. Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre, in 0 top lists Check -
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La Baule-les-Pins
1990 — a.k.a. C'est la vie, in 0 top lists Check -
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La Belle Noiseuse
1991 — a.k.a. The Beautiful Troublemaker, in 11 top lists Check -
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Betty Fisher et autres histoires
2001 — a.k.a. Alias Betty, in 0 top lists Check -
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Si je t'aime, prends garde à toi
1998 — a.k.a. Beware of My Love, in 0 top lists Check -
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La boum
1980 — a.k.a. The Party, in 0 top lists Check -
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La boum 2
1982 — a.k.a. The Party 2, in 0 top lists Check -
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Le pacte des loups
2001 — a.k.a. Brotherhood of the Wolf, in 2 top lists Check -
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Les bureaux de Dieu
2008 — a.k.a. God's Offices, in 0 top lists Check -
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Camille Claudel
1988, in 2 top lists Check -
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La Californie
2006 — a.k.a. French California, in 0 top lists Check -
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La captive du désert
1990 — a.k.a. Captive of the Desert, in 0 top lists Check -
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Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
1995 — a.k.a. A Hundred and One Nights, in 0 top lists Check -
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La cérémonie
1995 — a.k.a. La Cérémonie, in 7 top lists Check -
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Copie conforme
2010 — a.k.a. Certified Copy, in 8 top lists Check -
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C'est la vie
2001, in 0 top lists Check -
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C'est le bouquet!
2002 — a.k.a. Special Delivery, in 0 top lists Check -
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Ceux qui restent
2007 — a.k.a. Those Who Remain, in 0 top lists Check -
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Change moi ma vie
2001 — a.k.a. Change My Life, in 0 top lists Check -
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Les chansons d'amour
2007 — a.k.a. Love Songs, in 0 top lists Check -
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Les enfants du siècle
1999 — a.k.a. The Children of the Century, in 0 top lists Check -
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Un conte de Noël
2008 — a.k.a. A Christmas Tale, in 4 top lists Check -
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Clara et moi
2004, in 0 top lists Check -
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Cliente
2008 — a.k.a. A French Gigolo, in 0 top lists Check -
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Coco avant Chanel
2009 — a.k.a. Coco Before Chanel, in 0 top lists Check -
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
2009, in 0 top lists Check -
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Un coeur en hiver
1992 — a.k.a. A Heart in Winter, in 1 top list Check -
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Au coeur du mensonge
1999 — a.k.a. The Color of Lies, in 0 top lists Check -
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Le colonel Chabert
1994 — a.k.a. Colonel Chabert, in 0 top lists Check -
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Comme une image
2004 — a.k.a. Look at Me, in 1 top list Check -
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Vivement dimanche!
1983 — a.k.a. Confidentially Yours, in 1 top list Check -
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Coup de foudre
1983 — a.k.a. Entre Nous, in 2 top lists Check
Last updated on Aug 27, 2012; source