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Sabine Azema - Movies

La Buche 1999 2 stars

    N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Daniele Thompson
Cast: Sabine Azema, Emmanuelle Beart, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Claude Rich, Francoise Fabian, Christopher Thompson, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Isabelle Carre, Samuel Labarthe, Francoise Brion

  When Yvette's (Francoise Fabian) second husband drops dead just before Christmas, she asks her grown children to spend Christmas with her instead of her ex-husband Stanislas (Claude Rich). Daughter Sonia (Emmanuelle Beart) immediately sets plans into action for the "perfect" Christmas–despite the fact that she is dealing with secrets, secrets, and more secrets of her sisters Milla (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and Louba (Sabine Azema).

The Lacemaker 1977 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Goretta
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Annemarie Duringer, Renate Schroeter, Michel de Re, Monique Chaumette, Sabine Azema

  Mismatched lovers–hairdresser Beatrice (Isabelle Huppert) and the intellectual Francois (Yves Beneyton)–try but cannot sustain their romance because of the many existing class differences between the two.

Life and Nothing But 1989 3 stars

    N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azema, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier, Francois Perrot, Jean-Pol Dubois, Daniel Russo

  One of the many tragedies of war is that soldiers are buried near battlefields on foreign soil. This is the story of relatives, following World War I, who search for the remains of their loved ones.

Life Is a Bed of Roses 1983 3 stars

    PG, 111 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Jean-Louis Richard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Robert Manuel, Martine Kelly, Samson Fainsilber

  The possibility of a perfect world is examined in this fable, which uses a World War II "Temple of Happiness" from that era and compares its purpose with a present-day conference on education. The findings are that utopia does not seem to be the answer to society's problems.

Mon Homme 1996 2 stars

    N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Anouk Grinberg, Gerard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Dominique Valadie, Bernard Le Coq, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Sabine Azema, Jacques Francois, Bernard Fresson

  Prostitute Marie Abarth (Anouk Grinberg) thoroughly enjoys her profession. Then one day she meets Jeannot (Gerard Lanvin), a vagrant. She takes Jeannot home, appoints him as her pimp, and determines to devote her energies to him. But Jeannot strays, and when he becomes a pimp for a new prostitute the tables are turned.

A Sunday in the Country 1984 3 and a half stars

    G, 94 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azema, Genevieve Mnich, Monique Chaumette, Claude Winter, Quentin Ogier, Katia Wostrikoff, Jean-Roger Milo, Pascale Vignal

  One summer day in 1912 an elderly French painter entertains his children and grandchildren at his home. Family relationships and differing expectations from life are the focus of that day in this good film.

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