Agnès Jaoui
Writer 61 years old

Agnès Jaoui

Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Agnès Jaoui (born 19 October 1964) is a French actress, screenwriter, film director and singer. Jaoui has won six César Awards, three Lumières Awards, and a Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She has received numerous other awards and nominations, including a... Read full bio →

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Place publique

Place publique

Agnès Jaoui 2018 1h 38m

Revolves around Castro, who was once a very famous TV host, but as he grows old, his popularity is dwindling.

Au bout du conte

Au bout du conte

Agnès Jaoui 2013 1h 52m 6.0

Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she's found the right one. But then again, when she meets Maxime, Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others? Of course Sandro has problems of his own : his father,...

Parlez-moi de la pluie

Parlez-moi de la pluie

Agnès Jaoui 2008 1h 38m 7.0

Agathe Villanova, féministe nouvellement engagée en politique, revient dans la maison de son enfance, aider sa soeur Florence à ranger les affaires de leur mère, décédée il y a un an. Agathe n'aime pas cette région, mais les impératifs de la parité l'ont parachutée ici à l'occasion des prochaines éléctions.

Comme une image

Comme une image

Agnès Jaoui 2004 1h 50m 8.0

This is the story of human beings who know exactly what they'd do if they were somebody else, but can't handle being themselves very well, who are very simply struggling to find out who they are.

Le goût des autres

Le goût des autres

Agnès Jaoui 2000 1h 52m 7.4

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actre...

On connaît la chanson

On connaît la chanson

Alain Resnais 1997 2h 8.2

A musical story about how people find their love on the streets of beautiful Paris.

Un air de famille

Un air de famille

Cédric Klapisch 1996 1h 50m 8.0

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

Smoking/No Smoking

Smoking/No Smoking

Alain Resnais 1993 4h 40m 8.5

Those are two films. Smoking and No smoking. All characters played by two comedians. Set is meant to look like pictures used to teach English to French school-children. Both films start the same except in one she decide to quit smoking while in the other she chain smokes. Then what if... and it goes off with a whole different ending.

Cuisine et dépendances

Cuisine et dépendances

Philippe Muyl 1993 1h 36m 7.8

Jacques et Martine, couple de bourgeois ordinaires, ont invité à dîner un ami perdu de vue depuis dix ans et devenu depuis une vedette des médias.

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