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Sylvie Testud was born on January 17, 1971 in Lyon. Her parents separated when she was two years old. She spent her youth in the Lyon district of Croix-Rousse, raised by her mother, an accountant. In high school, she learned Chinese. Very early fascinated by the cinema, the young girl identifies in particular with the complexed teenager character embodied by Charlotte Gainsbourg in L'Effrontée. Having moved to Paris to study history, she soon embarked on acting by joining the free class at Cours Florent and then the Conservatory, where her teachers were Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel. She made her first screen appearance in 1994 in Couples et amants.
She decided to become an actress during her youth, after having admired actresses in films. She then took acting lessons in Lyon with the actor and director Christian Taponard. In 1989, she moved to Paris to study history, as well as drama lessons in free classes at Cours Florent, then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art for three years, with Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel for teachers.
In the early 1990s, she obtained her first small roles in the cinema, then in feature films such as The Story of the Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed by Philippe Harel (1994), Le Plus Bel Age..., by Didier Haudepin (1995) or even Love, etc. by Marion Vernoux (1996).
In 1997, Sylvie Testud experienced her first great success at the cinema in Germany with the film Beyond Silence by Caroline Link, for which she learned German, the clarinet and sign language. She is rewarded as best actress by the German Film Prize (the equivalent of the César for best actress). In 1998, she played her first major role in French cinema and enjoyed great success in France with the role of Béa in Karnaval, the first feature film by Thomas Vincent, for which she was nominated for the César for best female hope and received the Michael Simon Prize. She then began an important acting career with a preference for auteur cinema.
In 2000, her performance in La Captive by Chantal Akerman (adaptation of the novel La Prisonnière by Marcel Proust) earned her a nomination as best actress at the European Film Prize. In 2001, she obtained, for her second nomination, the César for best female hope for the remarkable interpretation of Christine Papin, one of the Papin sisters, in Les Blessures assassines by Jean-Pierre Denis, based on a news item from 1933.
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13 May 2001
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
09 January 2017
A corpse is found in the Bay of Wilhelmshaven. It soon becomes clear that the dead man was an officer in the Dutch KFOR troops in Kosovo.
27 November 2019
Since his sensational arrival at the head of the 20 Hours, Cédric Saint Guérande, known as "CSG" is THE favorite presenter of the French.
20 March 2002
Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France).
27 March 2013
With their beloved mother only a few days to live, her children decide to give her a surprising parting gift: bring Dave, a lifelong fan, to her bedside in the Ardennes.
01 January 1998
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice.
22 December 2004
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
15 December 2022
For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for that, he settles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
30 September 1999
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants.
03 February 2021
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2.
26 October 2018
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist.
11 November 2021
A female lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.
24 March 2010
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old.
20 May 2002
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day.
18 April 2002
In Paris, a young Argentine screenwriter attempts to escape his daily routine through a fictional story set in Argentina.
14 February 2007
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love.
08 January 1994
Marie is an adolescent woman who lives in Prussia in 1813 with her mother, a countess. They live in a palace watching the path of history from a far point of view.
11 March 1999
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house.
09 September 2015
A magistrate investigating a fraud case discovers the woman is the biological mother of her adopted child.
27 February 2009
Pierre, a French professor of quantum physics, inherits an inn from his aunt Jeanne in the Lac St-Jean region.
23 April 2014
Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel.
03 March 1999
Karnaval is set against a backdrop of intolerance and hostility in the gloomy Northern French city of Dunkirk.
12 September 2013
Holed up in a small Normandy town, Louise hides from her ghosts as she looks after grumpy old Theo, the retired lighthouse keeper who shares her passion for ornithology.
20 May 2009
A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered.
13 March 2019
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths.
11 February 2026
At 55, Anne is finally enjoying her freedom after her children leave home. But everything changes when her 23-year-old daughter, Louise, moves back in with her after a professional and romantic failure.
23 November 2014
A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.
25 December 2019
A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the globe to meet the Malawa tribe for a TV show.
11 June 2008
France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation.
23 March 2016
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution.
21 December 2020
Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris.
28 July 2004
This way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women, best friends Léa and Jacinthe.
16 January 2001
Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.
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.
08 April 2026
DNA tests before Alice and François's wedding reveal their fathers - an aristocrat and car dealer - aren't as French as they thought.
02 May 2018
A wannabe actor must chose between his passion and his father, a crook.
23 March 1994
Raoul is a 20 years old student in Paris. Girls are not interested in him, though he is good-looking.
26 April 2017
When she discovers a wedding planer's business card, Alexia instantly says, "YES" to Mathias unaware that it belongs to his mistress.
19 October 2018
A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé.
06 July 2003
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life.
07 February 2024
The Bouvier-Sauvages, a large aristocratic family, meet the much more modest Martin family when their children's wedding is announced.
13 November 2002
Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs.
21 October 2009
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
10 March 2010
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
18 January 2013
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of.
04 December 2013
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
29 November 2000
In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes.
06 March 2002
Philippe, 25, arrives one morning in Arcachon, where his sister lives. He is a young man with no ties, someone people easily confide in.
16 December 2009
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother.
20 September 2006
Three French hipsters and their translator travel through rural Georgia to claim a remote, ruined castle that one of them has inherited.
07 March 2019
Santiago de Cuba, January 19th, 1819. Coming from Lausanne, Enrique Faber, a Swiss doctor and surgeo�
24 October 2014
Dance drama playing on a dairy farm, starring two 19-year-old friends Syl and Frenzy who live for breakdancing.
30 April 2014
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
22 March 2005
Clara is afraid of words. Her daughter, Anna, is afraid of others. Vincent is afraid to grow up. But he won't be afraid to love them.
18 December 1996
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music.
03 August 2017
Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.
09 September 2003
Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders.
20 March 2013
Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Christansen offers her a transplant of two new hands.
