Véronique Genest

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55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of creative little films would seduce and build our collective memory. Kitschy or cult spots, humor, slogans, music, stars, gimmicks, grand spectacle or sex appeal: during its golden age, how did advertising convince? Thierry Ardisson has brought together almost 400 advertising clips to relive the era of the conquest of minds and wallets.

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While in a small Parisian theater, Hans-Peter Hansel (aka HPH), a former glory of the subsidized theater, prepares the sulphurous staging of "Antoine et Cléopâtre", Gina Monte-Fiori, the queen of the boulevard of the Parisian theater , has always dreamed of playing in a Shakespeare tragedy. But, disappointment, although she spoke of this wish to the press, no proposal followed. Yet someone heard his wish. It is about Gino di Lucca, American producer, former lover of Gina. She wants to play in Shakespeare! He has the money! He wants to see her again! He wants to resuscitate his youth! He is going to do it ! He contacted HPH and offered to produce it in the largest theater in Paris. Only condition: that Gina Monte-Fiori plays the role of Cleopatra.

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Elise has no memory of that night when she ran away with her sister, Laura. The day after, she was found alone and shocked. Laura had disappeared. 15 years later, Laura's body in unearthed. Elise then throws herself into a meticulous investigation and tries to reconstitute her me...

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They were not meant to meet... He (Pierre): a workaholic company manager born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He is a widower who jealously guards the domestic equilibrium he has rebuilt with his three very possessive daughters. She (Florence): a divorcée of modest means who has just lost her job and has three children of her own to feed. Exuberant and candid, she is cheerful by nature. No, they were definitely not cut out to meet. But, this summer on a beach in Southern France, the impossible happens...

As the mother of a 16-year-old girl, Anne Joubert is happy in her job and in her marriage. But when she learns that her daughter is using drugs, everything she took for granted suddenly collapses. She is forced to begin a major overhaul of her life.

Frédérique Letheil, who heads the research department of the Emmerson oil group, has sacrificed her private and sentimental life to her experiments. The management, which sees her work as a financial drain, has her unjustly dismissed by the group's general manager, Maxime Vergnaud. When the company realizes its mistake and the economic and ecological potential of Frédérique's research, it asks Maxime to bring her back at all costs.

A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.

Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy. Former top film comedian Romain (Richard) is on a downward spiral -- rehearsing a play directed by his sister while also dealing with his wife, mistress, taxes, low self-esteem, demands for attention from his two children, and a private detective attempting to snap incriminating photos. Producer Jean-Louis Levi appears in a cameo as a poverty-stricken bum.

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

Cheated on and fired from her job, Lucille leaves her suburb and moves to Paris with little hope of finding anything better. Shortly after arriving, she saves a desperate man from drowning. Pierre is also cheated on, but in terms of work, he is better off than Lucille: co-president of a large company, he lives in a luxurious apartment overlooking the Seine. To thank his benefactor, he offers her a place to stay for the night... This situation suits Lucille just fine, and she decides to stick around. Pierre is not at all pleased, as he finds the young woman to be a disaster, with manners that are too "common" for his taste, and who never misses an opportunity to put her foot in her mouth... The beginning of a turbulent and conflictual relationship. Will love conquer social differences?

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Truck driver Jeff agrees to take the son of his biggest customer along on the road and explain the tricks of the trade to him.

A director and a secretary conspire to swindle a banker who is blinded by his dream of becoming an actor.

By dint of inventing stories, a boy neglected by his mother comes to lead a double life.

Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.

After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally ill and in desperate need of expensive medical help, René can't refuse the offer to crack a safe in a villa. What René and his pals don't know is that they serve as a decoy for criminals who have much bigger plans. Can he escape from the police?

In the course of a violent hold-up at Deauville station, several innocent bystanders are shot dead. The victims include a politician, Robert Andréani, and three members of the same family. Devastated by the death of his wife, daughter and mother, Martin Modot resolves that their killers will be brought to justice. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, he decides to take matters into his own hands, with the support of a neo-fascist vigilante organization.

A César award nominated short comedy.

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

A particularly unlucky man meets a beautiful young woman, daughter of a rich businessman. This one, pursued by blackmailers, is going to take him along in her galleys.

A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.

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

While his three former college friends - Thierry, Gérard and Francis have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make the grade. Tired of Daniel's frequent attempts to drag them into ill-considered ventures, Thierry and Gérard decide to play a cruel trick on him by making him think he has won the national lottery.

The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30 years, are turned upside down after the death of the leader, Oscar Guarneri. The three aging musicians decide to split up to pursue those pleasures they've denied themselves too long.

The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Francis Lebovic, an ex-voyou turned sex worker, is not lacking in charm or elegance. David, his thirteen-year-old godson, accepts Francis' proposal to record a record without much enthusiasm. His voice, combined with his physique, gives rise to hope. Francis will be able to pay off his debts; Lino and Daisy, David's parents, will be able to do some work in their café. Everything would be just fine if Frédérique Henriot, a young lawyer, hadn't come to live in the house where they all live, in this village in the center of Paris called the Marais.

Algeria, summer 1961. François, 11, believes in the imminence of the end of the world. He tries to ward off fate with a prayer: “Make my parents come back. I am alone. I'm afraid"

Camille (Penelop Schallenberg) is the only child of her unmarried journalist mother Marianne (Veronique Genest). She has never known who her father is, and her mother isn't telling. However, in her rush to get to an assignment in the Middle East, her mother left behind three letters addressed to three men Camille has never heard of. When she opens the letters, she discovers that they exhort each of the men to look after Camille, as they may be her father. Naturally, Camille looks them up, letters in hand. Just as naturally, they get to know one another, squabble over who is the real father, and conspire to break her out of the orphanage she is put into when the authorities find out her mother has become a political prisoner.

Short film by Michel De Vidas.

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Returning from work, Louis finds a letter from his wife saying their marriage is over. He’s just lost his mother, and now he’s lost his wife as well. Shaken, he tries to understand: why the illness? Why the separation?

French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.

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