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Josiane Balasko (born 15 April 1950) is a French actress, writer and director.
She was born Josiane Balašković in Paris. One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is as a lesbian in 1995's Gazon maudit (French Twist). She won the 1996 César Award (shared with Telsche Boorman) for best writing for this film, for which she was also nominated as best director. The movie itself was nominated for best film.
Balasko's other César nominations for best actress were for Trop belle pour toi (1989), Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes (1993), Cette femme-là (2003).
She is married to George Aguilar, who is also an actor.
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29 September 1972
Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives.
27 September 1978
Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer's block.
18 January 1984
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.
08 March 1995
Show recorded at the Opéra Comique in Paris on March 6, 1995 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.
22 April 2026
Fanny, 30 years old and pregnant, is exhausted from living with her father alongside Virgil, her partner who’s a master of procrastination.
19 November 2008
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
01 April 2026
Arrested by mistake and mistaken for France’s most wanted man, Serge Martin, a peaceful retiree, becomes the target of the media.
20 June 2018
Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely baby named Loulotte.
15 March 2000
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
23 September 1986
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée.
27 September 2017
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
30 May 1978
A bunch of actors (mixed theater gangs from Le Café de la Gare and Le Splendid) are reunited in a movie theater to watch an anonymous porn flick.
23 August 1977
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.
16 April 1997
An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him.
26 May 1976
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
11 November 1978
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments.
20 February 2019
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children.
24 June 1977
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
08 December 2010
After a crazy and tumultuous night embellished with singular encounters, Michel's awakening is brutal and painful.
19 August 1981
Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.
15 October 2013
Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie GAYET and actor and director Mathieu BUSSON ask these questions to twenty French woman filmmakers, who face a camera together for the first time.
13 January 2016
Sybille, an accomplished actress, is given the chance to direct a film based on her own screenplay. Everything seems to go well at first.
22 February 1973
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity.
16 July 2021
A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.
28 February 2001
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce.
25 August 1982
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a cross-dresser visit their office.
02 December 1981
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel.
12 August 2009
Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
01 February 2006
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
01 July 2009
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday.
26 October 1983
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar.
22 November 1979
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
18 January 1995
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them.
29 January 1997
Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles.
12 February 2014
Plant loving Hilda has created a museum where she preserves endangered and rare plants from all over the world.
08 October 2008
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick.
30 January 2019
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City.
29 August 1984
When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere.
06 February 1985
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!
02 October 2024
Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude.
18 May 1994
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame.
01 June 2016
At 40, Stephanie loses her job and is forced to move back in with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms to the joys of overheated apartment, Francis Cabrel playing on loop, Scrabble games and precious motherly advice on how to behave at the table and live her life.
05 April 2000
A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris.
09 May 2012
Sandrine and Alice are two sisters who, in their thirties, decide the time has come to attempt a reconciliation with their mother.
28 September 1977
Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage.
12 September 2018
Chloe has been living a successful life thanks to one trick: Albert Einstein is in her mind. But one day, he decides to move and chooses another body: Zac, a depressive beekeeper.
29 August 2001
Middle-aged best friends Eddie and Patsy live in an endless haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. The duo leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated — be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing.
16 June 2021
While her apartment is being renovated, Jacqueline is thrilled to be forced into spending "a few days" with her eldest daughter Carole and her son-in-law, who are both in couples therapy.
15 October 2003
A strange investigation doesn’t erase the regrets of a grieving woman cop. Every four years, the past catches up with her.
05 August 1981
Isabelle and Maxime are a pair of lighthearted lovers -- that is, until Isabelle gets the itch for motherhood.
19 March 1985
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
18 October 2017
It's Julie's birthday but she seems to be the only one who remembers... Until Marco, the man she secretly loves, calls her and tells her he's going to drop off her son because the babysitter had a setback.
