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Fanny Ardant - news / articles


  • Hindus urge Ardant to show Roma film to The Pope - 11 October 2010
    -Leading Hindus are urging French actress Fanny Ardant to extend her stay in Rome, Italy for the city's upcoming film festival - and show her film about the plight of Roma gypsies to The Pope. - -The Ridicule star will premiere the hard-hitting new documentary about t

Fanny Ardant - what members say


  • Elizabeth
  • Elizabeth review by SAI81 from Tonbridge
    Rated - 4.0 stars Elizabeth 6 November 2007
    ... In smaller parts we get a strong performance from Richard Attenborough, a sexy Fanny Ardant and an amusing Vincent Cassell as well as cameos from the now better known like...   Read customer review
  • 8 Women
  • 8 Women review by from Sheffield
    Rated - 1.0 stars Innofensive 26 October 2004
    ...ry medium of a 60s-inflected song-and-dance number. The cast are flawless; Fanny Ardant and Catherine Deneuve, the Grand Dames of French Cinema, are wonderfully camp ...   Read customer review
  • Le Paltoquet
  • Le Paltoquet review by zorilla from Kew, Richmond
    Rated - 3.0 stars Not quite a paltoquet 2 June 2008
    ...did it with a candlestick in the library' what we actually get is the wonderful Fanny Ardant in a variety of extremely erotic lingerie Even if you're not a fan of decons...   Read customer review

Fanny Ardant - filmography


  • Roman de Gare (2007)
    Starring: Dominique Pinon,  Fanny Ardant,  Audrey Dana
    Director: Claude Lelouch
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the still of the night, three lives are about to cross--a woman abandoned, a stranger awaiting his chance and, a best-selling author who imagines the thriller of the year. Deceptively layered and intriguingly misleading, this film centers on an unlikely pair caught up in a game with high stakes--..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 11 members
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  • The Secrets (2007)
    Starring: Fanny Ardant,  Ania Bukstein,  Michal Shtamler
    Director: Avi Nesher
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Naomi, the brilliant and pious daughter of an ultra orthodox rabbi finds herself at a crossroads of life choices when her mother dies and she is expected to immediately marry her father's prodigy. Distressed yet determined, she begs that her father allow her one year to study at a women's religious ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 9 members
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  • Nathalie on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Emmanuelle Beart,  Gerard Depardieu,  Fanny Ardant
    Director: Anne Fontaine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tormented by the suspicion of her husband's adultery, Catherine (Fanny Ardant), a bourgeois Parisian businesswoman, seeks the help of a beautiful but mysterious call-girl, Nathalie (Emmanuelle Beart), to uncover the truth once and for all. As she hears the intimate details of her husband's meetings ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,933 members
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  • Callas Forever (2002)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Fanny Ardant,  Joan Plowright
    Director: Franco Zeffirelli
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This fictionalised biopic chronicles the final years of opera meta-diva Maria Callas (Fanny Ardant), filling in the blank spots with a what if scenario. It's the late 1970s and Callas, once the greatest singer in opera, has lost her voice, been thrown over by Aristotle Onassis in favour of Jackie ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 342 members
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  • 8 Women on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Danielle Darrieux,  Ludivine Sagnier,  Firmine Richard
    Director: Francois Ozon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From French director Francois Ozon, 8 WOMEN is a character drama and musical set in a country home during Christmastime in the 1950s. Though the atmosphere seems light and festive, when the host, Marcel, is stabbed in the back, one of the eight women in the house must be the culprit. The youngest ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 5,804 members
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  • Elizabeth (1998)
    Starring: Cate Blanchett,  Geoffrey Rush,  Christopher Eccleston
    Director: Shekhar Kapur
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    London, 1554. England is rife with intrigue. Elizabeth, born of royal lineage (the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn), imprisoned by her half- sister Mary, when she is 16, is swept onto the throne and crowned Queen of England at 23. To survive, Elizabeth must suss out hidden agendas in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 18,822 members
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  • Elizabeth - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Cate Blanchett,  Geoffrey Rush,  Christopher Eccleston
    Director: Shekhar Kapur
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Shekhar Kapur's visually stunning film tells the story of Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett), from her days as an innocent young woman to her coronation, up to the formation of her reputation as England's stern Virgin Queen. A lush portrait of history, full of pomp, intrigue, and romance and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 133 members
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  • Ridicule on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Fanny Ardant,  Charles Berling,  Bernard Giraudeau
    Director: Patrice Leconte
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    During the pre-revolutionary reign of Louis XVI, a young engineer travels to Versailles to petition the king to help him save the people of his region from a mosquito infestation. Upon his arrival, the naive country squire discovers lust in the form of a widowed countess, love in the form of his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,416 members
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  • Sabrina on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Julia Ormond,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A remake of a 1954 Billy Wilder romance, this updated version of the play Sabrina Fair was directed by Sydney Pollack. Julia Ormond stars as Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a kindly chauffeur (John Wood) at the Long Island estate of the upper-crust Larrabee family. Sabrina has grown up enchanted ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,652 members
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  • Beyond The Clouds on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Irene Jacob,  John Malkovich,  Sophie Marceau
    Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four part drama. As a filmmaker (John Malkovich) tries to sort out his plans for his next film, he considers several stories about women and the men who love them. Silvano (Kim Rossi ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 864 members
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  • Le Paltoquet on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Fanny Ardant,  Jeanne Moreau,  Daniel Auteuil
    Director: Michel Deville
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four men, a journalist, a doctor, a professor and a merchant, meet up every evening in a deserted bar to play cards. One night the police arrive with the news that a dead body has been found nearby and the inspector in charge is sure that one of them did it.
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 287 members
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  • Swann in Love (1984)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Ornella Muti,  Alain Delon
    Director: Volker Schlondorff
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    From internationally acclaimed director Volker Schlöndorff comes Swann In Love, a tale of obsessive love set against the colorful backdrop of Paris in the 1890s. Swann (Irons) falls in love with a young courtesan, and soon finds himself tormented by his unrelenting sexual desire. Based on the novel ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 45 members
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  • The Woman Next Door on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Gerard Depardieu,  Fanny Ardant
    Director: Francois Truffaut
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bernard Coudray has established a comfortable and settled existence near Grenoble with his wife and child. However, everything begins to disintegrate when the house next door to the Coudrays' is purchased by Mathilde and Philippe Bauchard. Many years ago, Bernard and Mathilde had a tortuous love ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 472 members
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Fanny Ardant facts

5 most recent films

Face - 2.5 stars
Tresor - 2.0 stars
Roman de Gare - 3.0 stars
The Secrets - 3.5 stars
Nathalie - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Elizabeth - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Elizabeth - 3.5 stars
Ridicule - 3.5 stars
Gerard Depardieu - Screen Icons Collections - Le Colonel Chabert - 3.5 stars
Confidentially Yours - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Tresor - 2.0 stars
Face - 2.5 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - 2.5 stars
Swann in Love - 3.0 stars
Roman de Gare - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gerard Depardieu - 4 times - show films
Andre Dussollier - 3 times - show films
Sabine Azema - 3 times - show films
Pierre Arditi - 3 times - show films
Fabrice Luchini - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alain Resnais - 3 times - show films
Alain Resnais - 3 times - show films
Francois Truffaut - 3 times - show films
Shekhar Kapur - 2 times - show films
Anne Fontaine - 2 times - show films