Writing
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Born March 28, 1960 · Lyon, Rhône, France (age 66)
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 28 March 1960) is a Franco–Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's parents were teachers of physical education and sport, and his father later became a physiotherapist and masseur in paediatric hospitals. He was also a French boxing ch…
Known For
Monsieur Ibrahim · 2003Monsieur Ibrahim
★ 7.02003
MovieDrama
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.
Oscar and the Lady in Pink · 2009Oscar and the Lady in Pink
★ 6.52009
MovieDramaFamily
Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink he meets on the hospital stairs. As Christmas approaches, Rose uses her fantastical experiences as a professional wrestler, her imagination, wit and charm to allow Oscar to live life and love to the full, in the company of his friends Pop Corn, Einstein, Bacon and childhood sweetheart Peggy Blue. Written by American Film Market
The Libertine · 2000The Libertine
★ 5.62000
MovieHistoryComedy
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
Sarah · 2003Sarah
★ 7.02003
MovieDrama
A stage play by John Murrell, adapted by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, performed to perfection by Fanny Ardant and Robert Hirsch about the last days of Sarah Bernhardt. The play concentrates on an uneasy relationship between Sarah and her servant to whom she dictates her memoir, as well as a fragile relationship between her memories, actual history and reality.
Milady · 2004Milady
★ 4.02004
MovieAdventureTV Movie
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.
Odette Toulemonde · 2007Odette Toulemonde
★ 5.72007
MovieComedyDrama
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.
Hôtel des deux mondes · 2002Hôtel des deux mondes
★ 7.02002
MovieComedy
Oscar et la dame Rose · 2007Oscar et la dame Rose
2007
MovieComedy
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