Marie Rivière
Marie Rivière (born 22 December 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with director Éric Rohmer. From a working-class background, Marie Rivière grew up on a housing estate/project in Montreuil before working as a schoolteacher, then as a shop assistant. At 21, having seen L'Amour l'après-midi, she sent a letter and photo to Éric Rohmer. He saw her in his office at Les films du losange, in the presence of Arielle Dombasle and Thierry Lhermitte, and offered her a small role in Perceval le Gallois. Two years later she appeared in Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife, the first in the Comédies et Proverbes series. The Green Ray, in which she played the fragile dreamer Delphine, was a critical and popular success, and won the Golden Lion at Venice. In 1998 she appeared again for Rohmer in Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale), alongside another Rohmer muse, Béatrice Romand. She co-directed her first film in 1993, with Marc Rivière, La Règle du Silence.
Hideaway (Le refuge)
as La femme sur la plageMousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One...
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Venus Beauty Institute
as La cliente aux bottines fouréesAging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train...
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The Green Ray
as DelphineA lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer...
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Down by Love
as Mère AnnaA man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story.
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My Donkey, My Lover & I
as ClaireAntoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her...
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A Tale of Autumn
as IsabelleMagali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her...
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A Tale of Winter
as DoraFelicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose...
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Courted
as Marie-Laure RacineWhen a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte...
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Bright Days Ahead
as JocelyneBright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care...
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
as L'arnaqueuse - SwindlerTwo young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take...
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Just the Two of Us
as Blanche’s MotherWhen Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow...
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Time to Leave
as MèreRomain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others...
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Sex, Love & Therapy
as MartineLambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He...
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The Aviator's Wife
as AnneA student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find...
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A Castle in Italy
as Nathan's MotherLouise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their...
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Perceval
as Pucelle / Dame / Fille de GarinThe film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights...
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Actresses
as The costume designerMarcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A...
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L'Établi
as Robert's motherA few months after May '68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a far-left...
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Love Is in the Air
as La mère de CharlotteYann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots’ abilities under extreme conditions on...
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Memory Lane
as AudeAugust in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew...
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This Summer Feeling
as AdélaïdeIn high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend...
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Marinaleda
as uncreditedMarinaleda features two philosophical vampires trying to reach the self-managed village of...
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The Lady and the Duke
as Madame LaurentGrace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution....
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The Stolen Diary
as LucieA young woman in a lesbian relationship keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her.
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Girls Can't Swim
as Anne-MarieGwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who...
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Chassé-croisé
as uncreditedPassionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young...
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Féminin plurielles
as ProfessorSweet works in a hospital as a nurse. A new patient has just been admitted. Her mysterious side...
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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
as SelfLes Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in...
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Zéro défaut
as SimoneA car factory, assembly lines, robots. And men and women whose... Michèle moves to the night...
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Marie-Line
as LouiseA woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law...
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El Turrrf
as SuzanneParis, at night. Pierre lands up in a club, El Turrrf, and meets two young ladies. Pom and...
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Le Canapé rouge
as uncreditedHow to stay at your lover's side (who's married to another woman) all day long without anyone...
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The Adventures of Rosette
as uncreditedA series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.
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Shreklife
as NadègeFive childhood friends reunite for the first time after the death of their classmate Pedro, an...
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Samia
as La conseillère d'orientationSamia is a teenage girl belonging to a family of Algerian Muslims who have settled in the...
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Médiumnité
as uncreditedA young woman unsatisfied with her life and her marriage discovers gifts of medium.
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My Sense of Modesty
as uncreditedHafsia, a student in Art History, is going to have to remove her hijab for an oral exam. She...
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Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
as La mereIn this coming of age drama, 17-year old Muriel rebels against her French family and leaves for...
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Catherine de Heilbronn
as BrigitteIn the Middle Ages, the earl Wetter von Stahl is accused of having bewitched Catherine, the...
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Life the Way It Is
as FlorenceAgnes leaves school and moves into a council house in Bagnolet with her friend Florence. She...
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Dark Flow
as uncreditedAs every summer, a man and a woman spend time in their country house by the forest. They have...
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Eva voudrait
as EmmanuelleÉva, thirty-nine, lives alone. She would like to have a child. She may not have much time left....
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Le bonheur se porte large
as IsabelleBruno Tessier, a wise executive, was on his way to join his wife and children on vacation on the...
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Les lutteurs immobiles
as JudithThe consumer society is dead. Welcome to the preservation society! As of their first school...
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Madeleine and the Two Apaches
as MadeleineA short film by French director Christelle Lheureux.
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Under the Snow
as uncreditedIn a city covered by snow, the young Paul lives alone with his mother since his father left. Not...
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