Writing

Jean-Marc Roberts

Born May 3, 1954 · Paris, France

Died March 25, 2013 · aged 58

Jean-Marc Roberts (3 May 1954 – 25 March 2013) was a French editor, novelist, and screenwriter. He started writing in the early 1970s. He was awarded the 1973 Fénéon Prize for Samedi, dimanche et fêtes (English: Saturday, Sunday and holidays), and, in 1979, the Prix Renaudot for his novel Affaires étrangères (English: Foreign Affairs). He was an editor for Seuil, the Mercure de France and Fayard …

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Private Tuition

Private Tuition · 1986

Private Tuition

MovieDramaCrime

Jeanne Kern is a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director letters accusing her of lewd and immoral conduct. Matters take a turn for the worse when a photograph of an orgy is sent to all the faculty with one face cut out; presumably, the face is hers.

Love in the Strangest Way

Love in the Strangest Way · 1994

Love in the Strangest Way

Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to worry there is more to the relationship than he bargained for.

A Friend of Vincent

A Friend of Vincent · 1983

A Friend of Vincent

MovieComedyDrama

Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands! · 1982

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

MovieComedyDrama

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries · 1990

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.

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Private Tuition

Private Tuition · 1986

Private Tuition

MovieDramaCrime

Jeanne Kern is a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director letters accusing her of lewd and immoral conduct. Matters take a turn for the worse when a photograph of an orgy is sent to all the faculty with one face cut out; presumably, the face is hers.

Writer

Love in the Strangest Way

Love in the Strangest Way · 1994

Love in the Strangest Way

Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to worry there is more to the relationship than he bargained for.

Writer

A Friend of Vincent

A Friend of Vincent · 1983

A Friend of Vincent

MovieComedyDrama

Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.

Novel

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands! · 1982

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

MovieComedyDrama

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.

Novel

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries · 1990

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.

Writer