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Dominique Lavanant has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by French Fried Vacation 2.
A Dog's Life
1918
Comedy
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Thierry Lhermitte, Michel Blanc, Christian Clavier
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.
Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc, Nicoletta Braschi
as Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Pierre Richard, Valérie Mairesse, Christine Murillo
as Bernadette Bourdelle, fille Bourdelle, fiancée de Michel
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Dir. Jean-Marie Poiré · With Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Roland Giraud
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Thierry Lhermitte, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot
as Mlle Goudilleux, la pharmacienne
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Dir. Jean Becker · With Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, André Dussollier
Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one-month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
Dir. Coline Serreau · With Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier
as Marie-Anne Prossant, journalist
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Coluche, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Lavanant
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
Dir. Bertrand Blier · With Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort, Brigitte Fossey
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
Dir. Jérôme Enrico · With Bernadette Lafont, Carmen Maura, Dominique Lavanant
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.
Dir. Laurent Tirard · With Valérie Lemercier, Kad Merad, Mathéo Boisselier
Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder that darkens the pigmentation of one's skin, she suddenly finds herself resembling a black woman.
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Valérie Lemercier, Anthony Kavanagh, Dominique Lavanant
as Christiane Weissmuller
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel
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