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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La nuit américaine
1973 — a.k.a. Day for Night, in 19 top lists Check -
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La gueule ouverte
1974 — a.k.a. The Mouth Agape, in 4 top lists Check -
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Les valseuses
1974 — a.k.a. Going Places, in 6 top lists Check -
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L'histoire d'Adèle H.
1975 — a.k.a. The Story of Adele H, in 1 top list Check -
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La dentellière
1977 — a.k.a. The Lacemaker, in 1 top list Check -
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La chambre verte
1978 — a.k.a. The Green Room, in 1 top list Check -
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Violette Nozière
1978 — a.k.a. Violette, in 2 top lists Check -
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La mémoire courte
1979 — a.k.a. Short Memory, in 1 top list Check -
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Les soeurs Brontë
1979 — a.k.a. The Bronte Sisters, 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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Loulou
1980, in 5 top lists Check -
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Sauve qui peut (la vie)
1980 — a.k.a. Every Man for Himself, in 5 top lists Check -
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Une semaine de vacances
1980 — a.k.a. A Week's Holiday, in 0 top lists Check -
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Coup de torchon
1981 — a.k.a. Coup de Torchon, in 6 top lists Check -
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La femme d'à côté
1981 — a.k.a. The Woman Next Door, in 3 top lists Check -
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Possession
1981, in 7 top lists Check -
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La balance
1982, in 2 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 retour de Martin Guerre
1982 — a.k.a. The Return of Martin Guerre, in 2 top lists Check -
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Coup de foudre
1983 — a.k.a. Entre Nous, in 2 top lists Check -
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J'ai épousé une ombre
1983 — a.k.a. I Married a Dead Man, in 0 top lists Check -
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L'été meurtrier
1983 — a.k.a. One Deadly Summer, in 0 top lists Check -
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Mortelle randonnée
1983 — a.k.a. Deadly Circuit, in 0 top lists Check -
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À nos amours
1983 — a.k.a. À Nos Amours, in 10 top lists Check -
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Premiers désirs
1983 — a.k.a. First Desires, in 0 top lists Check -
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Vivement dimanche!
1983 — a.k.a. Confidentially Yours, in 1 top list Check -
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Fort Saganne
1984, 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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L'effrontée
1985 — a.k.a. An Impudent Girl, in 0 top lists Check -
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Lune de miel
1985 — a.k.a. Honeymoon, in 0 top lists Check -
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Police
1985, in 1 top list Check -
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Rendez-vous
1985, in 1 top list Check -
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Sans toit ni loi
1985 — a.k.a. Vagabond, in 10 top lists Check -
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Le paltoquet
1986 — a.k.a. Paltoquet, in 0 top lists Check -
225 new
Sous le soleil de Satan
1987 — a.k.a. Under the Sun of Satan, in 3 top lists Check -
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Une affaire de femmes
1988 — a.k.a. Story of Women, in 2 top lists Check -
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Camille Claudel
1988, in 2 top lists Check -
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L'étudiante
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
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Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours
1989 — a.k.a. My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days, in 0 top lists Check -
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Monsieur Hire
1989, in 3 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 captive du désert
1990 — a.k.a. Captive of the Desert, in 0 top lists Check -
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Un week-end sur deux
1990 — a.k.a. Every Other Weekend, in 0 top lists Check -
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Les amants du Pont-Neuf
1991 — a.k.a. The Lovers on the Bridge, in 11 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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Madame Bovary
1991, in 0 top lists Check -
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Mon père, ce héros.
1991 — a.k.a. My Father the Hero, in 0 top lists Check -
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La neige et le feu
1991 — a.k.a. Snow and Fire, in 0 top lists Check -
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Après l'amour
1992 — a.k.a. After Love, 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
Last updated on Aug 27, 2012; source