François-Régis Bastide

Writing

François-Régis Bastide

Born July 1, 1926 · Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

Died April 17, 1996 · aged 69

François-Régis Bastide (1 July 1926; Biarritz – 16 April 1996; Paris) was a French writer, diplomat, politician, and radio host. Bastide was born in Biarritz in the French Basque Country on 1 July 1926 and attended school in Bayonne. In October 1944 he joined the 2nd Armored Division led by General Leclerc and participated in the last phase of the WWII Western Front operations. Bastide published…

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The Lady BankerThe Lady Banker · 1980
The Lady Banker
★ 5.31980
MovieDramaComedy
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.
The Elegant CriminalThe Elegant Criminal · 1990
The Elegant Criminal
★ 6.11990
MovieDrama
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Mimsy Were the BorogovesMimsy Were the Borogoves · 1970
Mimsy Were the Borogoves
★ 6.41970
MovieScience FictionFamily
Philippe and Sylvie bring home a small container they found on the way from school and strange things start happen...
The DollThe Doll · 1962
The Doll
★ 5.51962
MovieComedyScience Fiction
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
L'Oreille absolueL'Oreille absolue · 1972
L'Oreille absolue
1972
Movie
L'Éducation sentimentaleL'Éducation sentimentale · 1973
L'Éducation sentimentale
★ 6.81973
SeriesDrama
Miniseries adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel. Frédéric Moreau, an eighteen-year-old provincial youth, full of dreams and rather attractive, comes to Paris to study. From 1840 to the evening of the coup d'état in 1851, he learns about the world in a society in turmoil. Along the way, he encounters true love and the contingencies of pleasure, the Revolution and its false apostles, art, the power of money and stupidity, the reversibility of beliefs, brotherly friendship, and the inevitability of betrayal, without ever managing to commit himself to any cause other than that of following the loss of his illusions.

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