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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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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.
05 August 1981
Isabelle and Maxime are a pair of lighthearted lovers -- that is, until Isabelle gets the itch for motherhood.
27 March 2002
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée.
08 March 1995
Show recorded at the Opéra Comique in Paris on March 6, 1995 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.
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.
15 March 2000
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
04 September 2024
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard.
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.
16 December 1987
Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp.
10 December 2012
A son finds an escape from his turbulent marriage with his slightly dysfunctional and quirky parents who are hiding a young boy from the authorities.
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.
24 April 1991
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
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.
06 June 2018
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a communications officer in the Naval Fusiliers.
08 December 2010
After a crazy and tumultuous night embellished with singular encounters, Michel's awakening is brutal and painful.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
06 March 1993
Show recorded on February 26, 1993 at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.
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.
01 February 2006
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
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.
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.
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.
26 March 2014
Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt.
06 February 1985
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!
24 January 2024
Paris, 1894. Who is Fanni, who claims to be voluntarily locked up in a women-only mental institution? Searching for her mother among the multitude of so-called 'madwomen', Fanni discovers a community of modern heroines who defy her expectations, along with the unexpected friendship of fellow patients.
12 February 2014
Plant loving Hilda, has created a museum where she preserves endangered and rare plants from all over the world.
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.
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.
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.
27 September 2017
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
30 January 2019
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City.
05 April 2000
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
09 November 1977
Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover.
05 October 1977
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on.
19 December 2007
Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de récupérer les cendres de son père.
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.
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.
02 October 2024
Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude.
18 January 1995
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them.
22 February 1973
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity.
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.
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.
13 February 2019
A man goes on an all-inclusive vacation to the Caribbean and finds out he must share his room with someone else.
11 November 1978
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments.
07 January 1998
A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate.
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.
