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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


  • 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 73% from 11 members
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  • 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 60% from 14 members
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  • Nathalie on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Emmanuelle Beart,  Gerard Depardieu,  Fanny Ardant
    Director: Anne Fontaine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A middle-aged woman fears that her husband is cheating on her -- and chooses a very unlikely method for verifying her paranoia -- in this psychological drama from the writer of Une Liaison Pornographique. Catherine (Fanny Ardant) is a successful Parisian gynecologist whose long-term marriage to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,084 members
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  • 8 Women on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Danielle Darri,  Ludivine Sagnier,  Virginie Ledoyen
    Director: Francois Ozon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season... But there will be no celebration--their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 6,025 members
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  • Callas Forever (2002)
    Starring: JUSTINO DIAZ,  Jeremy Irons,  Manuel De Blas
    Director: Franco Zeffirelli
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This fantasy involves the last few months in the life of opera star Maria Callas, who comes out of reclusive retirement to film 'Carmen,' only to confront painful memories of her past love affair with billionaire Aristotle Onassis and the fact that she can no longer pretend to have the voice she ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 346 members
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  • Elizabeth on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  James Frain,  Vincent Cassel
    Director: Shekhar Kapur
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1554, England is ruled by the fervently Catholic Queen Mary (Kathy Burke), whose persecution of Protestants even extends to her own half-sister, Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett). When Mary dies, Elizabeth succeeds to the throne, but finds her country under threat from the Scots, French and Spanish. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 19,441 members
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  • Ridicule on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Bernard Giraudeau,  Judith Godreche,  Jean Rochefort
    Director: Patrice Leconte
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This is a French costume drama from director Patrice Leconte that recalls both Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Restoration (1995). Gregoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling) is a baron of the 18th century French countryside, wealthy in property and high in social position but poor in cash. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,555 members
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  • Sabrina on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Randy Becker,  Nancy Marchand
    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 4,792 members
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  • Beyond The Clouds on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Chiara Caselli,  Peter Weller,  Jean Reno
    Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A mosaic of four stories about love and desire tied together by the story of a filmmaker who observes the relationships of young couples. The first episode, "Chronicle of a Love That Never Was," follows a young traveler to Ferrara who falls in love with a woman he meets, but falls asleep in his ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 922 members
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  • Le Paltoquet on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Jeanne Moreau,  Daniel Auteuil,  Fanny Ardant
    Director: Michel Deville
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Highly stylised, existentialist comedy thriller directed by Michel Deville. Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli play the proprietors of a deserted café-bar to which the same four card players return night after night: a doctor (Richard Bohringer), a tradesman (Phillippe Léotard), a journalist (Daniel ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 304 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 48 members
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  • The Woman Next Door on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Gerard Depardieu,  Fanny Ardant
    Director: Francois Truffaut
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The ghost of a tempestuous affair is reawakened when the two lovers, estranged for 10 years and now both newly married, coincidentally move next door to each other. Francois Truffaut wrote the leading roles especially for his two stars, Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 508 members
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Fanny Ardant facts

5 most recent films

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

5 highest-rated films

Elizabeth - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Elizabeth - 3.5 stars
Gerard Depardieu - Screen Icons Collections - Le Colonel Chabert - 3.5 stars
Ridicule - 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
Roman de Gare - 3.0 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - Life Is A Bed Of Roses - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gerard Depardieu - 4 times - show films
Sabine Azema - 3 times - show films
Andre Dussollier - 3 times - show films
Pierre Arditi - 3 times - show films
Vincent Cassel - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

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