
Acting
Marie-France Boyer
Born 1938-04-22 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Marie-France Boyer (born 22 April 1938 in Marseille) is a French actress, singer and the author of many internationally published non-fiction books on France. She appeared from 1959 until 1976 in more than a dozen feature films and several TV shows. During her career as actress she worked with many directors, among them François Villiers, Henri Verneuil, Agnès Varda, Riccardo Freda, Luc de Heusch, John Krish and Gilles Grangier. Marie-France Boyer also had the female leading part in the TV series Quentin Durward, playing Isabelle de Croye, whose fate becomes a subject of dispute between the duke of Burgundy and the king of France. As a part of this role, she sings two medieval songs. Isabelle's beauty and loveliness inspire the protagonist to surpass himself, and when he is finally offered high positions at either ruler's courts, he refuses both because he prefers to live by her side. In 1967, she participated in screen tests for the search of the new male actor for the figure of James Bond in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Source: Article "Marie-France Boyer" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Acting credits
5.5François, a journalist, is approached on the train home by pretty a blonde. She leaves at the same station as him and follows him until he ends up inviting her to his house.
Sin with a Stranger
1968
7.4Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, 'Le bonheur' examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
Happiness
1965
3.0Film shot in subjective camera, often in voice-over which tells the love affair of the blonde Yselle, surprised by her extremely jealous and very possessive husband.
Piège blond
1970
5.5A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack at an episode about romance.
Les baisers
1964
6.9In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
Weekend at Dunkirk
1964
4.6A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
The Man Who Had Power Over Women
1970
5.9An industrialist is falsely accused of murdering one of his creditors and, because he cannot reveal that it was his mistress who gave him the money needed to pay the debt, he is sentenced to life in prison. He escapes, makes a fortune, and, years later, discovers the real culprit.
Trap for the Assassin
1966
NRThe Nativity revisited by Chantal Goya and Serge Gainsbourg as biblical lovers! On New Year's Eve, Marie and Joseph wander through the cold Parisian streets... Exhausted, they take refuge in the Vaugirard slaughterhouse, where the night watchman offers them a spot of straw. Suddenly Marie doesn't feel well... Don't underestimate the absurdity and quirkiness of a Gainsbourg in panic!
Christmas at Vaugirard
1966
6.0In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi police apparatus strikes back. The young resisters are arrested and two of them are condemned to death.
Green Harvest
1959
7.0A pleasingly pump female gets behind the wheel of a car during a party game and has an accident. Now temporarily confined to a wheelchair, the girl is holed up in her apartment. Watching through binoculars, she sees a man in a Mardi Gras clownsuit fight with another man and flee. Somehow the clown ends up in the girl's apartment where the two make love. Later, he returns to her after the man he had fought with shoots him. Though his clownsuit is stained with blood, she allows him in once again and hopes that love has long last arrived.
Une fille nommée Amour
1969
5.9Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz has invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons -- and a mad herd of rival spies are desperate to get their hands on the device, including a sect of bald, turtleneck-wearing assassins.
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
1967
In this 2006 program by Agnès Varda, her daughter, Rosalie Varda, reunites Claire Drouot and Marie-France Boyer to discuss their roles in the controversial film 'La bonheur' forty-one years earlier.
Les deux femmes du Bonheur
2006
4.0The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac who is about to marry.
The Real Bargain
1965
7.8A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
1967