Marie Rivière

Acting

Marie Rivière

Born

1956-12-22 (69)

Place of birth

Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Marie Rivière (born 22 December 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with director Éric Rohmer. From a working-class background, Marie Rivière grew up on a housing estate/project in Montreuil before working as a schoolteacher, then as a shop assistant. At 21, having seen L'Amour l'après-midi, she sent a letter and photo to Éric Rohmer. He saw her in his office at Les films du losange, in the presence of Arielle Dombasle and Thierry Lhermitte, and offered her a small role in Perceval le Gallois. Two years later she appeared in Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife, the first in the Comédies et Proverbes series. The Green Ray, in which she played the fragile drea…

Known for

Just the Two of Us poster
6.9

When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.

Just the Two of Us

2023

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle poster
7.4

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

1987

My Donkey, My Lover & I poster
6.4

Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track, by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey.

My Donkey, My Lover & I

2020

Sex, Love & Therapy poster
5.4

Lambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He stays abstinent for several months, but his alluring assistant's unbridled sexuality tests his resolve.

Sex, Love & Therapy

2014

At Work poster
6.5

A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty.

At Work

2026

Bright Days Ahead poster
6.0

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?

Bright Days Ahead

2013

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

Just the Two of Us poster
6.9

When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.

Just the Two of Us

2023

My Donkey, My Lover & I poster
6.4

Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track, by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey.

My Donkey, My Lover & I

2020

At Work poster
6.5

A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty.

At Work

2026

The Diary of a Chambermaid poster
NR

A young Romanian woman living in France works for a French family and joins a theatre company who are adapting Octave Mirbeau's The Diary of a Chambermaid.

The Diary of a Chambermaid

2026

A Man of His Time poster
6.7

September 1940. Henri Marre arrives alone in Vichy as the authoritarian regime settles in. Broke, estranged from his family, and carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut (Our Salvation), the 49-year-old is determined to secure what he believes is his rightful place in the new administration. In his writing, Henri sets out his patriotic convictions and his engineer’s methodology: efficiency above all. Claiming he wants to help save France after defeat, he does whatever is required to remain useful, serving the machinery of the new order with increasing skill. But he may be pursuing something more urgent: escape from his own ruin

A Man of His Time

2026

Bonus Malus poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bonus Malus

2024

The Assembly Line poster
6.8

A few months after May '68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a far-left activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a line worker. Like other comrades, he wants to infiltrate the factory to rekindle the revolutionary fire, but the majority of workers no longer want to hear about politics. When Citroën decides to pay back the Grenelle Agreements by requiring workers to work 3 hours overtime per week for free, Robert and some others see the possibility of a social movement.

The Assembly Line

2023

Queen Mom poster
6.2

Amel and her family learn that their landlord wants to get his apartment back in a few months. While Mouna, her eldest daughter, begins to have visions of Charles Martel, and their request for new social housing drags on, Amel has no choice but to reinvent herself.

Queen Mom

2025

Eva voudrait poster
NR

Éva, thirty-nine, lives alone. She would like to have a child. She may not have much time left. A gynecologist has just told her that her ovarian reserve is deplorable. The countdown begins. But she's instinctive, a bit messy and her battle plan lacks precision.

Eva voudrait

2020

Les Plus beaux gratte-ciel de Paris poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Plus beaux gratte-ciel de Paris

2026

Dark Flow poster
NR

As every summer, a man and a woman spend time in their country house by the forest. They have moved further from each other. This intimate place opens a passage.

Dark Flow

2020

Marinaleda poster
3.6

Marinaleda features two philosophical vampires trying to reach the self-managed village of Marinaleda in southern Spain.

Marinaleda

2023

2010s · 12 titles

Sex, Love & Therapy poster
5.4

Lambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He stays abstinent for several months, but his alluring assistant's unbridled sexuality tests his resolve.

Sex, Love & Therapy

2014

Bright Days Ahead poster
6.0

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?

Bright Days Ahead

2013

Courted poster
6.1

When a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte Lorensen-Coteret, at a murder trial, their shared past is slowly uncovered.

Courted

2015

Down by Love poster
6.0

A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story.

Down by Love

2016

A Castle in Italy poster
5.4

Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.

A Castle in Italy

2013

This Summer Feeling poster
5.6

In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York.

This Summer Feeling

2015

El Turrrf poster
5.0

Paris, at night. Pierre lands up in a club, El Turrrf, and meets two young ladies. Pom and Clémentine are accustomed to the place and are not going to delay saying to him why they are here.

El Turrrf

2013

Memory Lane poster
6.1

August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to see their family, some are searching their childhood, some want to escape boredom or eventually searching for love. They are all bearing the fact that these moments they are sharing are maybe the last ones.

Memory Lane

2010

Féminin plurielles poster
5.0

Sweet works in a hospital as a nurse. A new patient has just been admitted. Her mysterious side and her literary tastes fascinate the young woman. Delphine, executive in the same establishment, welcomes a German photographer who came for a report. The attraction is immediate between the two women. Hafsia, who wears the veil and could be refused an exam, meets an exuberant young man whom she falls in love with. She must hide this relationship from her father ...

Féminin plurielles

2018

My Sense of Modesty poster
7.5

Hafsia, a student in Art History, is going to have to remove her hijab for an oral exam. She goes to the Louvre to view the painting that she has to comment on.

My Sense of Modesty

2013

Madeleine and the Two Apaches poster
NR

A short film by French director Christelle Lheureux.

Madeleine and the Two Apaches

2014

No artwork available
NR

Éric Rohmer converses with collaborators and admirers.

In the Company of Éric Rohmer

2010

2000s · 11 titles

Time to Leave poster
6.5

Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.

Time to Leave

2005

Love Is in the Air poster
6.5

Yann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots’ abilities under extreme conditions on flight simulators. But Yann has a big problem: he is so airsick since he was born in a plane, that he couldn’t even follow the love of his life when she moved to Australia. Yann is now thirty years old and remembers with both nostalgia and humour the numerous love stories he spoiled because of his phobia. Will he finally accept to become a grown up or will he keep making plans in the air?

Love Is in the Air

2005

Hideaway (Le refuge) poster
6.1

Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge.

Hideaway (Le refuge)

2009

The Lady and the Duke poster
6.4

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.

The Lady and the Duke

2001

Actresses poster
5.0

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don’t go to plan.

Actresses

2007

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens poster
10.0

Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens

2005

Girls Can't Swim poster
4.2

Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.

Girls Can't Swim

2000

No artwork available
9.0

A child, secret war refugee, deceived by his father, is taken in by a man living in the solitude of a garden between sea and mountain. Left to his own devices, he must find his own way as he is shunted around between untrustworthy adults. A modern tale.

Clandestino

2003

Marie-Line poster
5.4

A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for laziness and no tolerance for employees who do less than a perfect job. But Marie-Line's bosses are in the midst of a money crunch and they've cut back on her budget, so when several of her employees quit, she has to find new cleaners willing to work for a lower wage. Marie-Line soon finds new workers willing to work hard for low pay, but there's a catch -- most of them are illegal aliens, smuggled into France from Africa, Albania, or the Middle East, and when police begin asking questions about Marie-Line's new cleaners, she has to scramble to cover for them.

Marie-Line

2000

Le Canapé rouge poster
7.0

How to stay at your lover's side (who's married to another woman) all day long without anyone noticing...

Le Canapé rouge

2005

Zéro défaut poster
7.0

A car factory, assembly lines, robots. And men and women whose... Michèle moves to the night shift, with the secret hope of changing her hours to change her life. Farouk is retiring after 35 years on the line. Suddenly, the stop, the silence. Jeremie, Michèle's husband, is a team leader in the sheet metal and finishing workshop, a job that costs him too much. 13 hours to make a car. How many days for a love to be born or broken?

Zéro défaut

2003

1990s · 6 titles

A Tale of Winter poster
7.0

Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.

A Tale of Winter

1992

An Autumn Tale poster
7.1

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.

An Autumn Tale

1998

Venus Beauty Institute poster
5.9

Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.

Venus Beauty Institute

1999

No artwork available
8.0

Marie lives with her daughter in a large Parisian apartment. She rents a room to a student: Adrien.

Adrien's Sleep

1991

Muriel's Parents Are Desperate poster
4.3

In this coming of age drama, 17-year old Muriel rebels against her French family and leaves for the bright lights of Paris. When she falls for Nora, Muriel enters a journey of heartbreak and discovery.

Muriel's Parents Are Desperate

1995

The Stolen Diary poster
4.8

A young woman in a lesbian relationship keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her.

The Stolen Diary

1993

1980s · 14 titles

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle poster
7.4

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

1987

The Green Ray poster
7.5

A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.

The Green Ray

1986

The Aviator's Wife poster
7.2

A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…

The Aviator's Wife

1981

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

No artwork available
9.0

Adrien Daubigny, director at INSEE, warns his wife Anna that he now wants to lead his life by chance. Anna and her two children agree to his leaving. The family must meet again a year later.

Folie suisse

1985

No artwork available
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Rosette vole les voleurs

1988

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

Chassé-croisé poster
3.0

Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.

Chassé-croisé

1982

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rosette sort le soir

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La nuit du coucou

1987

Catherine de Heilbronn poster
6.8

In the Middle Ages, the earl Wetter von Stahl is accused of having bewitched Catherine, the daughter of the blacksmith of Heilbronn. The earl tries to be exonerated by proceeding himself to the interrogation of the young woman, who apparently shows an "unnatural possession".

Catherine de Heilbronn

1980

No artwork available
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Rosette cherche une chambre

1987

Le bonheur se porte large poster
9.0

Bruno Tessier, a wise executive, was on his way to join his wife and children on vacation on the Côte d'Azur when a hitchhiker forced her presence on him.

Le bonheur se porte large

1988

Raison perdue poster
4.9

A young girl accuses her parents of being murderers. Hurriedly committed to an asylum, she attracts the attention of a psychologist who is determined to get to the bottom of the story. At her own risk.

Raison perdue

1984

1970s · 5 titles

Perceval poster
7.1

The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes from the story of Gawain and the crucifixion of Christ.

Perceval

1978

Cinématon poster
4.9

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.

Cinématon

1978

Life the Way It Is poster
5.9

Agnes leaves school and moves with a friend to a housing project in Bagnolet. Engaged as a clerk, she becomes associate staff after the dismissal of a colleague.

Life the Way It Is

1978

Heart to Heart poster
6.1

The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child when she became pregnant. In this film, she reminisces about her family life beginning when she was about five years old, up to the present when she is in her early 20s. Of her two sisters, one has a nervous breakdown and the other one becomes something of a baby factory. Colorful anecdotes of her eventful life lend additional depth to her insights.

Heart to Heart

1979

Médiumnité poster
4.0

A young woman unsatisfied with her life and her marriage discovers gifts of medium.

Médiumnité

1978

Behind the camera