Bernadette Lafont

Acting

Bernadette Lafont

Born October 28, 1938 · Nîmes, Gard, France

Died July 25, 2013 · aged 74

Bernadette Lafont is a French actress (born October 28, 1938 - died July 25, 2013). Thanks to his roles in “Les Mistons” (1957) by François Truffaut, “Les Bonnes Femmes” (1960) by Claude Chabrol, “La Fiancée du pirate” by Nelly Kaplan (1969), or even “La Maman et la Putain” (1973) by Jean Eustache, this popular star is considered one of the muses of the New Wave.

Known For

The Mother and the WhoreThe Mother and the Whore · 1973
The Mother and the Whore
★ 7.31973
MovieDramaRomance
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
GwendolineGwendoline · 1984
Gwendoline
★ 4.91984
MovieAdventureFantasy
A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.
A Cat in ParisA Cat in Paris · 2010
A Cat in Paris
★ 6.82010
MovieAnimationComedy
A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.
PaulettePaulette · 2012
Paulette
★ 6.52012
MovieCrimeComedy
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
I DoI Do · 2006
I Do
★ 6.42006
MovieComedyRomance
Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, his mother and sisters decide it's time he got married, and the sooner the better!
A Very Curious GirlA Very Curious Girl · 1969
A Very Curious Girl
★ 6.21969
MovieDramaComedy
Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her.
A Gorgeous Kid Like MeA Gorgeous Kid Like Me · 1972
A Gorgeous Kid Like Me
★ 6.21972
MovieComedyCrime
Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison for an interview. Accused of murdering her husband and her lover, Camille recounts her life and love affairs.
Attila MarcelAttila Marcel · 2013
Attila Marcel
★ 6.92013
MovieComedyDrama
Paul is a sweet man-child, raised — and smothered — by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. Paul's aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions of his upstairs neighbour. Suitably named after the novelist, Madame Proust offers Paul a concoction that unlocks repressed memories from his childhood and awakens the most delightful of fantasies.

Filmography

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La frisée aux lardonsLa frisée aux lardons · 1979
La frisée aux lardons
★ 4.01979
MovieComedy
It’s summer in a small port town in Brittany. Isabelle (Pascale Rocard), who has just graduated from high school, comes to join her mother Micheline (Bernadette Lafont). Micheline is being courted by a beach boy, Maurice—whom everyone calls Doudoune (Bernard Menez). Isabelle soon begins a sweet romance with one of his friends, Pascal (Pascal Meynier). Meanwhile, her father (Michel Aumont) has stayed behind in Soissons, where he runs a medical laboratory, and is bored to death. Every weekend, he comes to spend 48 hours with Micheline and sometimes splurges a little extra in Paris, hitting on girls in nightclubs. Efforts that are not crowned with success. On the contrary, in Brittany, that ladies’ man Doudoune gets what he wants... But when the family man comes to join his loved ones, the blunders and misunderstandings multiply...

Micheline