
Acting
Françoise Michaud
Born 1963-01-01 · Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France
Françoise Michaud was born in Dijon, France. She graduated in humanities and cinema studies in Paris. After she began an acting career in France, she decided to go to Los Angeles (California) where she followed sessions of the Actors Studio. She also studied screenwriting at UCLA. At the same time she started to take photographs – making portraits of musicians, actors, directors, published in the press- as well as to take pictures on sets while shooting movies.
Acting credits
6.2A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.
Femme Fatale
2002
7.2Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Rust and Bone
2012
6.5The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
The Under-Gifted
1980
5.0The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013
10.0In this avant-garde exercise in self-reflection, director Joseph Morder reminisces about his youth in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his Jewish parents settled after they left Poland. The heat of August in Paris brings forth memories and at the same time the adult Morder is involved in a love affair. There are no scenes from Ecuador here, and none of the images in the film are used to carry the narration; instead they vaguely illustrate what Morder happens to be saying at the moment.
Mémoires d'un juif tropical
1986
7.8After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.
The Rebel
1980
6.0A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Eminent Domain
1991
Ascel longs to escape her village in Kyrgyzstan and dreams of going to Moscow. The big city indeed tests her survival skills.
The Empty Home
2012
4.9A recently released safecracker returns to stealing in order to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to induct his teenage son into the 'family business'.
Family Business
1986
9.0William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.
El Cantor
2005
6.8An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl.
The Butterfly
2002
6.0The story of a friendship between Victor, owner of a magazine, and Bruno, a car thief.
Mon pote
2010
5.9In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux and they change apartments. Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning. The next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room and all evidence of her life has been deleted.
Switch
2011
7.4A French director in Berlin creates a film letter to his lover, while reminiscing over their relationship.
Romamor
1992
6.3In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother Lily, a free spirited cabaret performer. Lily tried to elevate her stripper performances from the level of erotic spectacle to artistic expression as she dragged her young daughter from nightclub to nightclub and hotel to hotel, but ultimately lost her at nine to the Paris child authorities.
Flowers of Blood
2002
A private detective, Assoud the Buffalo, feels lonely and is heading for deep depression at the beginning of the Parisian summer. Lucy, a friend, organises a mysterious meeting for him on the banks of the Canal St Martin.
Assoud le Buffle
2001
6.0"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening somewhere where they are not. Swindled out of their car and virtually broke, they hitchhike back to Paris, hoping to arrive in time for some of the excitement.
Cocktail Molotov
1980
7.0Clément, a young entrepreneur, is a happy father: married to the beautiful Alex, he is also the happy father of "Petit-Bonheur", his son. Despite his 30 years, he can't live without his father, Paul, a musician and widower, with whom he has a very close relationship. In addition to this exclusive relationship, the latter also takes care of his grandson on a regular basis. Two points which are not without provoking a certain jealousy in Alex. One day, "Petit-Bonheur", under Paul's care, falls down a staircase. At the hospital, where the child undergoes X-rays, Clément can't stand the wait for the exams and reprimands his father harshly. After this incident, the news is fortunately good: "Petit-Bonheur" has nothing serious and finds with joy the arms of his parents. Clément then realizes that his father has disappeared.
Le fils de Paul
1995
NRTeo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. “Sidewalks are great subjects: garbage, objects and materials, stains, signs, are a movie subject.”
Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage
1984
Assoud, known as "The Buffalo", and his sister Louise are private detectives. One day, a mysterious character asks them to carry out an investigation into the places of his childhood in Cuba. In Havana, the siblings find their cousin Mimi Shanghai, and discover an evil beach haunted by a mysterious legend. They then set out for their client's childhood home. When the client decides to join them, they at last discover his face and enable him to come to terms with his past.
Assoud et les fantômes de La Havane
2008
4.9The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children, and goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with the police in pursuit.
The Unsewing Machine
1986
NRElias, a twenty year-old student, comes back home for the holidays. He gets back to his mother Françoise and an old childhood friend, Bob. Before Elias left town, they were still lovers. Since, Bob became the town boy's punching bag.
Almost an Island
2015
6.5The efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling woman in his production.
The Ghost Valley
1987
5.0A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
Love, Math and Sex
1997