Virginie Thévenet

Acting

Virginie Thévenet

Born 1957-01-12 · Paris, France

Virginie Thévenet was born on January 12, 1954 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for Jeux d'artifices (1987), The Night Wears Suspenders (1985) and Quartet (1981).

Acting credits

Sophie's Ways poster
5.5

Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.

Sophie's Ways

1971

Small Change poster
7.1

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.

Small Change

1976

The Cry of the Owl poster
5.2

Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites him in...

The Cry of the Owl

1987

A Good Marriage poster
6.8

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.

A Good Marriage

1982

Full Moon in Paris poster
6.8

Feeling suffocated by a possessive boyfriend, work and suburban life, a young woman starts spending the weekends in her Paris apartment in order to reclaim some of her lost freedom.

Full Moon in Paris

1984

The Adventures of Rosette poster
6.4

A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.

The Adventures of Rosette

1983

Jeux d'artifices poster
4.4

Elisa and Eric are two teenage war orphans. They change their apartment on the outskirts of the city into a photo-studio to make a living, and they are very devoted to it. The two seem to live like heavenly beings without connecting to the outside world. Their only contact with the exterior is through Jacques, a loyal friend, but he also cuts himself out of any social life. The sister and the brother then take to get in touch with the world by Mrs Jean, a friend of their deceased mother with whom Elisa takes courses of singing. They live in harmony until a young man, whom Elisa falls for, eventually leaves with Eric for the USA and left her brokenhearted alone in France.

Jeux d'artifices

1987

Quartet poster
5.8

When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.

Quartet

1981

Opium poster
4.0

The frustrated loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet at the beginning of the 1920s. The death of Radiguet that sank Cocteau into opium. A story under the influence of drugs. A narrative in the spirit of Cocteau. And all this in a musical.

Opium

2013

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer poster
5.9

Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

1972

A Dirty Story poster
6.1

A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.

A Dirty Story

1977

Winter's Child poster
6.5

Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.

Winter's Child

1989

Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other) poster
5.2

This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.

Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)

1976

Like a Turtle on Its Back poster
4.4

Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer's block. He tries every remedy known to man and makes up a few new ones in this comedy. All his efforts are futile: he loses his girlfriend and his apartment and has a succession of misadventures until finally, homeless and hospitalized, he rediscovers his inspiration.

Like a Turtle on Its Back

1978

No artwork available
5.0

They are between 14 and 17 years old and live with other teenagers in a home in the heart of the Vosges forest. All of them have been placed there by social services.

Il ne faut jurer de rien

1983

No artwork available
6.2

A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of regular players from Rohmer films. With the help of her friends, Rosette takes advantage of a gullible stranger passing by in order to sell him all her roses.

Rosette vend des roses

1985

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising! poster
4.0

Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

1983

No artwork available
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Rosette cherche une chambre

1987

Les Zozos poster
4.8

The romantic adventures of two teenagers in the 60s, boarding at a provincial college.

Les Zozos

1973

La Surprise du chef poster
6.0

Hubert has a mistress, Papinou would like to seduce her. To do so, he convinces Hubert to go abroad. After years he became editor-in-chief, while Papinou did not succeed.

La Surprise du chef

1976

Behind the camera

Sam's Enough poster
4.8

After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer. After she gets settled, she takes a job at a government office for a while but then decides to have a child, which her obliging roommate makes with her the old fashioned way. He then returns to his usual preference, while Eva explores becoming an artist herself. From time to time in this easygoing comedy, Eva's similarly independent and quirky mother (Bernadette Lafont) shows up.

Sam's Enough

1992

Sam's Enough poster
4.8

After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer. After she gets settled, she takes a job at a government office for a while but then decides to have a child, which her obliging roommate makes with her the old fashioned way. He then returns to his usual preference, while Eva explores becoming an artist herself. From time to time in this easygoing comedy, Eva's similarly independent and quirky mother (Bernadette Lafont) shows up.

Sam's Enough

1992

Jeux d'artifices poster
4.4

Elisa and Eric are two teenage war orphans. They change their apartment on the outskirts of the city into a photo-studio to make a living, and they are very devoted to it. The two seem to live like heavenly beings without connecting to the outside world. Their only contact with the exterior is through Jacques, a loyal friend, but he also cuts himself out of any social life. The sister and the brother then take to get in touch with the world by Mrs Jean, a friend of their deceased mother with whom Elisa takes courses of singing. They live in harmony until a young man, whom Elisa falls for, eventually leaves with Eric for the USA and left her brokenhearted alone in France.

Jeux d'artifices

1987

Jeux d'artifices poster
4.4

Elisa and Eric are two teenage war orphans. They change their apartment on the outskirts of the city into a photo-studio to make a living, and they are very devoted to it. The two seem to live like heavenly beings without connecting to the outside world. Their only contact with the exterior is through Jacques, a loyal friend, but he also cuts himself out of any social life. The sister and the brother then take to get in touch with the world by Mrs Jean, a friend of their deceased mother with whom Elisa takes courses of singing. They live in harmony until a young man, whom Elisa falls for, eventually leaves with Eric for the USA and left her brokenhearted alone in France.

Jeux d'artifices

1987

The Night Wears Suspenders poster
5.3

Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or by crook through the wild side of Paris nightlife.

The Night Wears Suspenders

1985

The Night Wears Suspenders poster
5.3

Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or by crook through the wild side of Paris nightlife.

The Night Wears Suspenders

1985

Bavardages en sida mineur poster
NR

A young woman's questions about her partner's possible infidelities and the risks of his "irresponsibility" in the face of prevention.

Bavardages en sida mineur

1994