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Jean-Pierre Darroussin has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by All Your Faces.
The Best Is Yet to Come
2019
Comedy · Drama
Since 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.
Dir. Jeanne Herry · With Birane Ba, Leïla Bekhti, Anne Benoît
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon
Jacques and Martine, an ordinary bourgeois couple, invite to dinner a friend whom they have not seen the last ten years. Since then he has become a media star and everything has to go just right at dinner.
Dir. Philippe Muyl · With Zabou Breitman, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.
Dir. Eric Barbier · With Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasing. Her father's friend, Felipe, would love to marry her, and he invites her to an aviation show. She accepts his invitation only because she knows Jacques is a pilot and will be there. Soon, she'll carry his child, and he'll be gone, and the family will have to deal with this out-of-wedlock pregnancy...
Dir. Daniel Auteuil · With Daniel Auteuil, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Kad Merad
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.
Dir. Aki Kaurismäki · With André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
Dir. Jean Becker · With Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
Dir. Sarah Suco · With Camille Cottin, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Éric Caravaca
The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse.
Dir. Anna Novion · With Ella Rumpf, Julien Frison, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their respective jobs, their relationship with women (their own and others...) and the times they meet together to discuss about life and play sport lottery.
Dir. Marc Esposito · With Bernard Campan, Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors.
Dir. Jean-Marie Poiré · With Gérard Lanvin, Christian Clavier, Jean-Pierre Bacri
A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.
Dir. Robert Guédiguian · With Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.
Dir. Coline Serreau · With Muriel Robin, Artus de Penguern, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
Dir. Richard Berry · With Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs
In order to participate with medal options in the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, the national coach of France decides to form a basketball team composed mostly of fake mentally disability. Once in Australia, the fraudsters must fake their disability by living with the other athletes in the Olympic village or by attending the media in the post-match press conference.
Dir. Vianney Lebasque · With Ahmed Sylla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Camélia Jordana
Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's convinced he's going to die. When his cardiologist warns him : We all need others. Alone, we're nothing. Tony decides to reconnect with the daughter he abandoned twenty years earlier, when she was just a baby. Still a coward, he's unable to screw up the courage to actually confront her directly. So he decides to sign up for a dance class she's teaching in Paris. Incognito, of course. To get to know her gradually… in a desperate attempt to give some meaning to his empty life. In the process, he has more than a few dance steps to learn!
Dir. Franck Dubosc · With Franck Dubosc, Louna Espinosa, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
Dir. Marc Esposito · With Bernard Campan, Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.
Dir. Robert Guédiguian · With Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood peddler, has secretly been in love with Marius since her childhood; Marius, never admitting it, has always loved Fanny. One day, a sailor drops by La Marine and offers him a job on an exploratory ship. Trying to hold him off and to make him jealous, Fanny confesses his love to him and provokes a fight between Marius and one of César's old friends, Panisse, a boat merchant, who despite his old age, has been courting Fanny for a while. Torn between the call of the sea and his love for her, Marius abandons his dream to be with Fanny who gives herself to him. As César and Honorine, Fanny's mother, are getting ready for the wedding, Marius changes his mind, drawn back to the call of the sea.
Dir. Daniel Auteuil · With Daniel Auteuil, Raphaël Personnaz, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.
Dir. Robert Guédiguian · With Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stévenin
After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.
Dir. Bertrand Blier · With Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan, Gérard Depardieu
Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new friends.
Dir. Marc Esposito · With Bernard Campan, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Éric Elmosnino
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...
Dir. Michel Munz, Gérard Bitton · With Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Richard Berry
After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed. Powerless, he has to support the daily visits of doctors,nurse and hospital staff then his closes including his brother Herve. Visits after visits, funny or touching, Pierre starts to reconsider some people and reexamine his environment. And after all, his stay becomes a second chance ...
Dir. Jean Becker · With Gérard Lanvin, Fred Testot, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
Dir. Patrick Alessandrin · With Richard Berry, Charles Berling, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
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