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Charlotte Gainsbourg - news / articles


  • Gainsbourg refused to perform on-set sex act - 6 February 2012
    -Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg stood her ground against Antichrist director Lars Von Trier when he asked her to perform a sex act on a porn star for the film.-Gainsbourg played a woman who mutilates her own genitals while struggling to cope with the loss of her only child in t


  • Gyllenhaal and Gainsbourg join Berlin Film Festival jury - 20 December 2011
    -Jake Gyllenhaal and Charlotte Gainsbourg have been selected to sit on the jury at next year's (12) Berlin Film Festival.-The Brokeback Mountain star and the Melancholia actress will join revered director Mike Leigh, who has been appointed the jury president at the February (


  • Gainsbourg's mother helped her through Antichrist - 14 July 2009
    -Charlotte Gainsbourg sent text messages to her actress mother Jane Birkin every day while filming horror/drama Antichrist - so she could laugh about the traumatic scenes she had to shoot.- -Gainsbourg was terrified of her role in Danish moviemaker Lars von Trier's violent an

Charlotte Gainsbourg - what members say


  • Merci La Vie
  • Merci La Vie review by A customer from Leamington Spa
    Rated - 3.0 stars Jigsaw Puzzle 8 April 2004
    ...Camille (Charlotte Gainsbourg) wheeling a shopping trolley on which two seagulls perch finds Joelle (Anouk Grinburg) dressed in a wedding dress lying in the middle of the road havi...   Read customer review
  • Jane Eyre
  • Jane Eyre review by from UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars Viewer...she married him! 20 October 2004
    ... Special mention should go to the young anglo-French actress playing Jane - Charlotte Gainsbourg as she seemed to me (and to my partner) to embody Jane Eyre herself! There is ...   Read customer review

Charlotte Gainsbourg - filmography


  • Confession of a Child of the Century (2012)
    Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Pete Doherty,  Lily Cole
    Director: Sylvie Verheyde
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Paris, 1830: Octave, betrayed by his mistress, sinks into despair and debauchery. His father's death leads him to the country where he meets Brigitte, a widow who is ten years his elder. Octave falls in love passionately, but will he have the courage to believe in it?
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  • The Tree on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Morgana Davies,  Marton Csokas
    Director: Julie Bertucelli
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The exquisite Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist, I’m Not There) stars in French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli’s achingly beautiful follow-up to her sleeper hit Since Otar Left. The Closing Night Film at Cannes in 2010, The Tree is a mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Not ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 324 members
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  • Melancholia on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Kirsten Dunst,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Kiefer Sutherland
    Director: Lars Von Trier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth... MELANCHOLIA is a psychological ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 8,561 members
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  • Antichrist on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Willem Dafoe,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
    Director: Lars Von Trier
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Only two actors, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Defoe, inhabit the space of this supernatural thriller directed by Lars Von Trier. The stars play a couple who attempt to grieve for their dead child by living in seclusion in the middle of a forest. But their story does not end there: in the forest, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 9,198 members
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  • Persecution (2009)
    Starring: Romain Duris,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Jean-Hugues Anglade
    Director: Patrice Chereau
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted by the appearance of a stranger that proceeds to insinuate himself in his life. The man's persistence takes its toll on Daniel and Sonia, leaving Daniel alone with nagging questions of "Why?"
    1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 9 members
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  • The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
    Starring: Omar Metwally,  Anthony Hopkins,  Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund-his brother, widow, and younger mistress-so he can get authorization to write the biography.
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 5 members
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  • The Science Of Sleep on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Emma De Caunes
    Director: Michel Gondry
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The Science of Sleep, a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal) an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. Stephane pines for next-door neighbor, Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), but she becomes confused by his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 21,440 members
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  • Lemming on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Laurent Lucas,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Dominik Moll
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Alain (Laurent Lucas) seems to have it all - a beautiful wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a perfect home and a prestigious new engeneering job. But the unexpected sexual attentions of his boss' disconcenrtingly glacial wife (Charlotte Rampling) and the discovery of a rodent, unaccountably stuck in the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,858 members
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  • Ma Femme Est Une Actrice on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Yvan Attal,  Terence Stamp
    Director: Yvan Attal
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    MY WIFE IS AN ACTRESS is a clever French comedy from Yvan Attal, who wrote, directs, and stars in the film. Jealous and paranoid, Yvan (Attal) is the husband of Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a popular young actress who is constantly being cast in starring roles opposite attractive and seductive ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,016 members
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  • Les Miserables on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Gerard Depardieu,  Christian Clavier,  Virginie Ledoyen
    Director: Josee Dayan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,096 member
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  • La Buche (1999)
    Starring: Sabine Azema,  Emmanuelle Beart,  Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Director: Danièle Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The directorial debut of French screenwriter Danièle Thompson, LA BÛCHE is a cool Christmas story with a comedic, realistic touch. Set in Paris, a middle-aged divorced woman, Yvette (Françoise Fabian), rattled over the death of her lover, decides to spend Christmas with her three daughters, Sonia (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 26 members
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  • Jane Eyre (1996)
    Starring: William Hurt,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Joan Plowright
    Director: Franco Zeffirelli
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Franco Zeffirelli stresses emotional realism over gothic chills in this restrained adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic. The screenplay, by Zeffirelli and Hugh Whitmore, remains relatively faithful to the original story, beginning with a condensed look at the troubled childhood of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 2,033 members
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  • The Cement Garden on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Andrew Robertson,  Sinead Cusack
    Director: Andrew Birkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    When a family of four fatherless children hide their mother's death to avoid going to an orphanage, the eldest two think they are capable of assuming the mature roles forced upon them. Parenthood and maturity, however, brings with it stronger urges--urges which brother Jack and sister Julie find ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,577 members
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  • Merci La Vie (1991)
    Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Anouk Grinberg,  Gerard Depardieu
    Director: Bertrand Blier
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Betrand Blier's MERCI LA VIE, two young women at the end of their ropes--Camille (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and Joelle (Anounk Grinberg)--cause mayhem in a small town. A dark, surreal comedy, Blier's film is perplexing, shocking, and fascinating.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 754 members
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Charlotte Gainsbourg facts

5 most recent films

Confession of a Child of the Century - 3 stars
The Tree - 3.0 stars
Melancholia - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Melancholia - 2.5 stars
Antichrist - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

21 Grams - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Jane Eyre - 3.0 stars
21 Grams - 3.0 stars
The Tree - 3.0 stars
Ma Femme Est Une Actrice - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Confession of a Child of the Century - 3 stars
Persecution - 1.5 stars
The City of Your Final Destination - 2.5 stars
Happily Ever After - 2.5 stars
La Buche - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Willem Dafoe - 4 times - show films
Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm - 3 times - show films
Charlotte Rampling - 3 times - show films
Gerard Depardieu - 3 times - show films
Yvan Attal - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Lars Von Trier - 6 times - show films
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - 3 times - show films
Dominik Moll - 2 times - show films
Andrew Birkin - 2 times - show films
Yvan Attal - 2 times - show films