Hélène Lapiower

Acting

Hélène Lapiower

Acting credits

No artwork available
NR

Suzanne and Albertine, her daughter, return to Omaha Beach, one of the D-Day beaches where their family has spent holidays for a Long time. The place is the scene of major family events. This time, Albertine has something to tell her mother.

La plage

1997

Trouble Every Day poster
5.8

Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.

Trouble Every Day

2001

Le Tartuffe poster
7.2

Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgon orders his daughter to reject her fiancé and marry Tartuffe. First Dorine, the family servant, tries a strategy to avert the marriage; then Orgon's son tries his hand. They anger Orgon, and to prove paternal power, he disinherits his son and makes Tartuffe his heir. Next Orgon's wife tries to bring her husband insight, a stratagem that partially backfires. With the bailiff at the door ordering Orgon to vacate his own home and with Tartuffe at court to prove Orgon's a traitor, all seems lost.

Le Tartuffe

1984

Living It Up poster
9.5

An intimate conversation, mixed with the sounds of a festive crowd.

Living It Up

1987

No artwork available
7.3

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of Figaro has his mind and heart on other matters -- an entrancing diva who keeps him enraptured with her presence and voice. In the meantime, he finds fault with his cast members who cannot, of course, measure up to the woman of his dreams. As singers encounter one problem or another, it is clear that something has to be done about the conductor. Director Laurent designed costumes for both theater and opera, giving her some insight into the venue.

Vertiges

1985

My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument poster
6.5

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers?

My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument

1996

Mensonge poster
4.0

Emma has been happily married to Charles, a hardworking journalist, for over ten years. They have a son, and are considering having another child when she learns that she is both pregnant and HIV-positive at a time when Charles is away. As Emma has never used drugs or slept around, and has never had a blood transfusion, there can only be one source for her infection: her absent husband. Shocked to the core by this turn of events, she goes through his things and finds an address book with the names of many women in it. Determined to discover what has been going on, she begins contacting every name in the book. She continues her investigations even after her husband, whom she confronts over this, returns.

Mensonge

1993

Tomorrow's Another Day poster
4.7

A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.

Tomorrow's Another Day

2000

Ivan & Abraham poster
6.4

In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability.

Ivan & Abraham

1993

La loi sauvage poster
3.0

A man escapes from prison, and leads in his run the woman of his life.

La loi sauvage

1988

The Phantom of Longstaff poster
6.5

A short film based on Henry James' short story "Longstaff's Marriage".

The Phantom of Longstaff

1996

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NR

The painter Honoré Fragonard lives in a sort of beehive surrounded by attractive female models, of which Marianne, his mistress and muse, is the queen. Around her, these young ladies are constantly arguing about which of them will be the next to pose for Honoré. The routine breaks down when one of the young women suddenly dies. Her corpse is then dissected by Cyprien Fragonard under the eyes of his cousin Honoré, who paints the execution of the operation. Marianne, fascinated by this morbid spectacle, also watches.

Les Deux Fragonard

1986

No artwork available
9.0

Leaud portrays a Parisian publisher of romance novels who hits on the gimmick of having his live-in girlfriend (carrot-top cutie Helene Lapiower) pose as author Rosine de Beaumont for book jacket and autograph signings. She's an immediate hit but rebels against being exploited, and throws Leaud out of their apartment. Complications occur when she meets a nerd (Rufus) claiming to be the book's author, leading to discovery of the real author (Thierry Fortineau), a bookseller who"s so happy to be in print at last that he's not to miffed at the deception. Climax shot at Charles de Gaulle Airport neatly weaves plot threads together for a blissfully happy ending.

Paperback Woman

1989

Août poster
6.3

The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart.

Août

1992

Toubab Bi poster
6.0

Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by the five-year old son of a friend who he believes to be still living in Paris. On arrival he struggles to find the boy’s father. In addition to coping with his new internship, Soriba has to also spend time tracking down the boy’s father ‘Issa’.

Toubab Bi

1992

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Paradise now-Journal d'une femme en crise

Brussels-Transit poster
6.6

A family of Polish-Jewish refugees arrives in Brussels in 1947 to navigate the challenges of postwar survival. Guided by a maternal voice-over, the narrative tracks their daily struggles with poverty, housing, and obtaining legal residency permits. Through staged, static tableaus, the film records these everyday bureaucratic and living conditions.

Brussels-Transit

1982

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