
Acting
Pauline Étienne
Born 1989-06-26 · Ixelles,Belgique
Pauline Étienne is a Belgian stage and screen actress, and director. Her notable films include Le Bel Âge and Silent Voice, for which she won the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actress in 2010.
Acting credits
6.6In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.
Old Boys
2018
NRA 17-year-old girl who has just discovered that she is pregnant is obliged to take her outspoken grandmother along on a driving lesson.
Driving Lesson
2012
5.8Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Eden
2014
6.1Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.
The Midwife
2017
NRAlice is a young street girl, she is looking for a place where she can stay...
Une place
2012
6.01915, Sarah Bernhardt is the world's first star. Free. Modern. Divine. Eccentric. Visionary... Between legend and fantasy, Sarah Bernhardt tells us the love story that marked her life.
The Divine Sarah Bernhardt
2024
5.1Lucie and her father Hugo have grown closer since Lucie's mother left unexpectedly a year prior. When her mother returns, Hugo becomes jealous and angry.
Lost Paradise
2012
6.3When Julie finally lands a job at a luxury shoemaker, her dreams of stability collapse as the owner threatens to close the factory. Together with an intrepid group of women, they decide to resist, bringing back to life a bold and elegant shoe model to save the renowned brand. But when Samy, a young truck driver as wily as charming, jumps in the middle of the fight, this is no longer the same song.
Footnotes
2016
6.2Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although a kind and understanding Mother Superior helps her to learn the convent’s daily routine, Suzanne’s desire for freedom remains unabated. When the Mother Superior dies, Suzanne finds herself faced with reprisals, humiliation and harassment at the hands of the new Abbess and the other Sisters. For many years, Suzanne is subjected to bigotry and religious fanaticism. (Berlinale.de)
The Nun
2013
4.0A middle-aged hermit lives in a cursed forest. Fifteen years ago, a mysterious tribe kidnapped his daughter. For years, he traveled the world to find and rescue her, in vain. Years later, she is the one who finds him. But she was followed...
Discordia
2024
5.6Stéphane defers his frustration at not having had a son on his sons-in-law. So when her younger daughter decides to leave a rugby player than the idolatrous father for a doctor he can not stand, he will do everything to get his son-in-law back. His daughter will not let it go.
Dad Friend
2018
5.3An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world.
Black Heaven
2010
NRA portrait of three women striving to forge their own rosy paths.
Ainsi va la vie
2019
5.1An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.
Private Lessons
2009
5.7Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to Adrien. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down.
Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï
2022
NRAnna’s life is well settled. She and her boyfriend Paul, a young soldier, diligently prepare for the arrival of their first child as the future father is set to leave on a mission abroad. But a few days before the departure, the French state decides to withdraw all troops, and Paul tells Anna that he will be able to stay with her the coming months. The unexpected news cause a big dilemma for her.
Le retrait des troupes
2017
4.2At 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and eccentric Maurice Reverdy takes her in in his big house, but the girl carefully avoids this faraway figure, who is none other than her grandfather. Proud, rebellious, solitary, they represent two generations that are simultaneously attracted to and repelled by one another. Their lives will intertwine, as one seeks out her future and the other is tormented by his past.
Le Bel Âge
2009
NRIn a small village, where no offence has been recorded for a long time, four policemen lead a peaceful existence. But one day they receive a terrible announcement: because of the absence of crime, the police station will close. They then have an idea to keep their job.
Les Gendarmes et les voleurs
2024
5.8Yvonne loses her mind and confuses her teenage granddaughter, Manon, with her deceased daughter. Manon plays the role of the mother she never knew, reviving her grandmother's years of feminist activism. In this troubled game, Manon will learn to become a woman.
Retrotherapy
2024
6.2A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery.
Tokyo Fiancée
2014
3.4A few girls in an apartment. Across the street men are building a mosque.
Where the Boys Are
2009
Today, Julie is strong, She is independent. She can go back home. Her family is waiting for her, they love her : her mother, her brother, her sister... and her father.
Family Ball
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La cuillère en argent
2018
7.3Paris, 1942. In the middle of the Occupation, Victor Gence, an unscrupulous merchant, buys, at vastly low prices, artworks belonging to Jewish collectors. Informed by a concierge, he manages to enter the apartment of Mr. Klein who apparently has a fabulous collection.
The Collection
2018
