Josiane Balasko

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Josiane Balasko - what members say

Trop Belle Pour Toi review by from Bury, Lancashire.

Sometimes confusing but very enjoyable nonetheless 3 October 2004
...lly Gerard Depardieu, are first rate and the supposedly rather dowdy secretary, Josiane Balasko, is someone I quickly warmed to. She provides an effective contrast to the sop... Read customer review

Ma Vie Est Un Enfer review by A customer from London

This is very French in style 15 March 2004
... but the comedy will not necessarily appeal to Anglo-Saxon tastes. The cast of Josiane Balasko and Daniel Auteuil are good and there are some interesting ideas in it. ... Read customer review

Ruby Blue review by markleetracy from Croydon

ruby blue 22 February 2010
...undercutting the sterling efforts of the central cast, most notably Hoskins and Josiane Balasko as his frumpy neighbour, whose Frenchness is signalled by an accordion blast ev... Read customer review

The Hedgehog on DVD (2009)
Starring: Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa
Director: Mona Achache
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Paloma is a serious, but deeply bored 11-year old, who has decided to kill herself on her twelfth birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment ..read more »

64% from 17 members

A French Gigolo (2009)
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Eric Caravaca, Josiane Balasko
Director: Josiane Balasko
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French cinema has never been shy about depicting female desire. Cliente, Josiane Balasko's matter-of-fact comedy about the commodification of love, is no exception. An elegant entrepreneur in her fifties, Judith unapologetically engages male escorts to minister to her sexual pleasure. When she ..read more »

30% from 5 members
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Neuilly sa mere! (2009)
Starring: Denis Podalydes, Josiane Balasko, Valerie Lemercier
Director: Gabriel Laferriere
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The title represents an in-joke, and a word of explanation may help: early 21st century French president Nicolas Sarkozy originally hailed from the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, notorious for the allegedly pompous, haughty attitudes among its residents. The vernacular of the title ..read more »

40% from 2 members
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Ruby Blue on DVD (2008)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Josiane Balasko, Jody Latham
Director: Jan Dunn
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An elderly man's friendship with a young girl is viewed with suspicion both those around him in this drama from British filmmaker Jan Dunn. Jack (Bob Hoskins) has never been an especially good natured man, but after the death of his wife he sinks into a deep depression, rarely leaving the house, ..read more »

66% from 340 members

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed on DVD (2005)
Starring: Charles Berling, Jean-Pierre Leaud, jean-Pierre Leaud
Director: Serge Le Peron
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The kidnapping and assassination of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka, fictionalized in Yves Boisset's L'Attentat in 1972, gets a more historically accurate treatment in Serge Le Péron's noirish docudrama, the tabloid-headline-titled I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed. The film is narrated by ..read more »

58% from 496 members

French Twist on DVD (1994)
Starring: Josiane Balasko, Victoria Abril, Alain Chabat
Director: Josiane Balasko
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When Loli becomes fed up with her husband's philandering, she invites a butch, cigar-smoking lesbian to move in with them.

57% from 2,271 members

Ma Vie Est Un Enfer on DVD (1991)
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Richard Berry
Director: Josiane Balasko
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When a dowdy nurse, Leah, becomes infatuated with her boss she sells her soul to the Devil's apprentice, Abargadon, in return for a new glamorous look. When the angel Gabriel deems the deal null and void due to a technicality, the situation is further complicated by the fact that Leah and Abargadon ..read more »

54% from 630 members

Trop Belle Pour Toi on DVD (1989)
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet
Director: Bertrand Blier
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Betrand Blier's unusal menage a trois film stars Gerard Depardieu, Carol Bouquet, and Josiane Balasko. Bernard Barthelemy (Depardieu) is married to a gorgeous woman (Bouquet), yet he longs for something more. Could his ordinary secretary (Balasko) be what he really wants

53% from 1,397 member

Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982)
Starring: Anemone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel
Director: Jean-Marie Poire
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Felix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he comes after her, she takes refuge at 'SOS Distress', run by two ..read more »

67% from 9 members
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Les Bronzes on DVD (1978)
Starring: Josiane Balasko, Luis Rego, Marie-Anne Chazel
Director: Patrice Leconte
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Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.

60% from 433 members

The Hedgehog - 3.0 stars
A French Gigolo - 1.5 stars
Neuilly sa mere! - 2.0 stars
Ruby Blue - 3.5 stars
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed - 3.0 stars

Ruby Blue - 3.5 stars
Les Bronzes - 3.0 stars
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed - 3.0 stars
French Twist - 3.0 stars
Ma Vie Est Un Enfer - 2.5 stars

A French Gigolo - 1.5 stars
Neuilly sa mere! - 2.0 stars
The Hedgehog - 3.0 stars
Santa Claus Is a Stinker - 3.5 stars
Trop Belle Pour Toi - 2.5 stars

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Jean-Marie Poire - 1 times - show films
Serge Le Peron - 1 times - show films
Gabriel Laferriere - 1 times - show films
Mona Achache - 1 times - show films
Patrice Leconte - 1 times - show films