France Roche

Acting

France Roche

Born 1921-04-02 · Saint-Tropez, Var, France

France Roche is a French journalist, film critic, television producer and presenter, actress, born April 2, 1921 in Saint-Tropez and died December 14, 2013 in Paris 10th. She has also written books and film scripts, adapted plays and acted in films. She collaborated in particular with: Ciné Mondial (1941-1944), Cinévie and especially Cinémonde of which she was editor-in-chief, magazines devoted to cinema; Marie France then France-Soir, as head of the cinema page of Pierre Lazareff's daily newspaper. The newspaper then has a circulation of more than a million copies and can have three or four editions per day. She is the “Madame Cinema” of the most powerful French newspaper; the ORTF, as part of the broadcasts: Five columns on the front page, where she notably carries out an interview with Brigitte Bardot, Cinépanorama (programs on cinema, notably on the Cannes festival), Thirty years of silence (on the stars of silent cinema) and Headliner: long interviews with Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Renaud (1966), Jean Marais (1968), Arletty, Annie Girardot (1969), Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse (1970), Michel Piccoli (1971), Jeanne Moreau (1972)…; Antenna 2: called by Jacqueline Baudrier, she becomes deputy editor-in-chief and editorialist, head of the culture department. She is the specialist in cinema, entertainment and fashion on the television news (1969-1986) within the framework of which she notably presents live every day during the Cannes Film Festival a column on the films in competition. She also interviews Woody Allen in the show Woody Allen or the Funniest Anhedonist in the World (1979). She then participated in the shows Sexy Folies created by Pascale Breugnot (1986) in which she advised viewers on the telephone then J'aime à la Folie devoted to the Avignon Festival (1987-88): Canal Jimmy, where, at the request of Michel Thoulouze and Pierre Lescure she hosts T'as pas une idées, a trans-generational show in which a guest, born in the 1950s to 70s, is questioned by young people from the 1990s (1991-2001); CinéCinéma, where she presents the show Ciné-ciné court dedicated to short films; France Inter where she is a columnist for Pierre-Yves Guillen in the show Piment Rose. France Roche is the author of several film scripts, notably with Michel Audiard, whom she discovered and starred in around fifteen films between 1950 and 1958. She was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1961. France Roche's career presents an atypical profile. Familiar with the general public until around 1965, she then took on executive functions more in the background, with less visibility, before returning to the screens from 1986. Such a long eclipse, although only apparent, and her return, have at the time created astonishment. She was the wife of François Chalais then of Gilbert de Goldschmidt, with whom she has a son: Frédéric, born in 1959.

Acting credits

Nuit d'ivresse poster
6.0

Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.

Nuit d'ivresse

1986

The Irony of Money poster
5.6

The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris.

The Irony of Money

1957

French Cancan poster
7.2

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.

French Cancan

1955

The Miracle of St. Anne poster
NR

Series of rushes about cripples appearing in a Bible epic who are cured by a starlet playing Saint Anne.

The Miracle of St. Anne

1950

Without Leaving an Address poster
6.4

A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.

Without Leaving an Address

1951

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes poster
7.7

A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with archival footage and clips from his films. It offers a deeper understanding of the career of the man whom Jean Gabin swore by from the mid-1950s onward, and whom films such as "Les Tontons Flingueurs" immortalized.

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

2002

Adorable Creatures poster
5.2

Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two children. He tells Chistine he will tell all to her husband and demand her freedom. Christine learns that her husband has been carrying on a romance of his own and they have a meeting.

Adorable Creatures

1952

Pleasures and Vices poster
5.7

He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a certain amount of money from wealthy ladies. Having given up on touching little Marie, he fell into the clutches of fashionable decorator Loina. Both love money, both go for it. Their characters bind them together. So much so that when Loina falls on hard times, Gueule d'ange would fly to help her. A loyal friend stops him. Loina leaves. Distraught, the handsome boy looks inward. It's time for him to settle down.

Pleasures and Vices

1955

Follow That Man poster
6.2

While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. The second concerns the brutal broad daylight murder of innocent young Yvonne.

Follow That Man

1953

La Rue des bouches peintes poster
7.0

An English governor in India, deceived by his wife, proposes to him either to accuse the lover of embezzlement, or to condemn her to end her days as a prostitute in the rue des Bouches Peintes. She chooses the second solution...

La Rue des bouches peintes

1955

Zoé poster
8.0

Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy named Arthur (Michel Auclair), who is attracted not only to Zoe's beauty, but by her insistence upon telling nothing but the whole truth. This trait causes no end of comic complications when Zoe moves into the palatial home of Arthur's family. The limit comes when Zoe botches a big business deal formulated by Arthur's not-altogether-honest father (Louis Seigner). Zoe is based on a stage farce by Jean Marsan.

Zoé

1954

Le cinéma de Boris Vian poster
NR

On June 23, 1959, Boris Vian died of a heart attack while watching the film "I Spit Οn Your Graves", a frivolous adaptation of his novel of the same name, which he released under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan. Taking as a starting point this fateful date for Vian's relationship with cinema, the documentary looks back at his cinematic experiences, his appearances in several films, his friendship with director Pierre Cast and his many unrealized screenplays. From the post-war period to the dawn of the 1960s, from the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés to his apartment in Place Blanche, it is about the portrait of a diverse author who loved cinema with passion.

Le cinéma de Boris Vian

2011

Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen poster
6.7

Woody Allen's interview with France Roche.

Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen

1979

A Girl in a Pocket poster
5.0

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.

A Girl in a Pocket

1957

Pity for the Vamps poster
10.0

Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular.

Pity for the Vamps

1956

La chasse à l'homme poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La chasse à l'homme

1952

Matrimonial Agency poster
5.6

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.

Matrimonial Agency

1952

Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur poster
10.0

Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect supports his in-depth reflection on the city and its necessary adaptation to modern life with plans, drawings and images, particularly Paris, whose revolutionary development dreamed of by Le Corbusier is exhibited here. Its first projects will remain at the stage of a model: the modernization plan for the city of Algiers. Some will be created by other architects: Ministry of Education in Rio de Janeiro, UN Palace in New York. From the post-war period in less than 10 years, Le Corbusier created large housing units in Marseille, Nantes, a chapel in Ronchamps, a factory in Saint-Dié, a town in Chandigarh in India. Through diagrams, the architect presents his theory of the "radiant city", the mathematical key modulor of his work as well as his project for reorganizing the countryside, industrial and urban cities into a grouping around a cooperative system.

Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur

1957

Behind the camera

Love and the Frenchwoman poster
4.9

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.

Love and the Frenchwoman

1960

School for Love poster
5.1

Sophie and Elis, two young women at the Conservatory of Vienna. vie for the affection of head singing teacher Walter.

School for Love

1955

Male Hunt poster
6.5

A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.

Male Hunt

1964

Famous Love Affairs poster
4.4

An anthology of four historical love affairs: at Versailles, Louis XIV shares his mistress with one of his subjects; a courtesan tries to disfigure her lover with acid; a medieval wife faces the wrath of her husband's father, who has her condemned to death; and a stage actress provides advice on life and love to her young colleague.

Famous Love Affairs

1961

Vacation in Hell poster
NR

During the Second World War, the Martel family hides out in the Pyrenees, waiting for hostilities to end. André, a young boy, saves them from an attack by bogus resistance fighters. Hunted from all sides, he flees to Spain. Catherine Martel leads him to the border, and a romance develops between them.

Vacation in Hell

1961

A Girl in a Pocket poster
5.0

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.

A Girl in a Pocket

1957

Pity for the Vamps poster
10.0

Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular.

Pity for the Vamps

1956

La chasse à l'homme poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La chasse à l'homme

1952

The Red Cloak poster
10.0

Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the scene. He is the son of the killed. These and the Flemish are also rivals in love. In the final duel the Flemish will be eliminated.

The Red Cloak

1955