Known for Camera
Born
March 5, 1930
Died
November 21, 2016 (age 86)
Birthplace
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Filmography
19 films


Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher
1989 · 12m
country: France
Far from Standardised visual recording, Akerman and her accomplice, the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton allows us to discover a fine moment of contemporary music.


Mélo
1986 · 1h 52m
country: France
In 1920s Paris, violinists and lifelong friends Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are happy with their lives, although Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not. Pierre is married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Marcel little suspects.


Seven Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom, for Sale
1984 · 28m
country: France
An unusual visit to a large, empty apartment. But is it empty or not? Maybe a family has lived there or is going to live there. Maybe a young girl is going to escape from there. Maybe some of the old-timers who lived there never left. The walls themselves tell the stories of the time passing by.


Zig Zig
1975 · 1h 29m
country: France
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.


Marianne's Temptations
1973 · 1h 30m
country: France
Innocent young Marianne works in a ski resort high in the French Alps. One night she agrees to go on a date with Bob, a young guy on vacation. Bob excites her in ways that her oafish boyfriend never could.


The Insolent
1973 · 1h 30m
country: France
Having escaped from prison Ristack contacts his partner, to organize an attack on a van full of gold. The heist goes well but each man is trying to keep all the loot for himself...


Sex Is Beautiful
1973 · 1h 21m
country: France
Married with two kids, beautiful Claire has everything to be happy. But her husband, a businesman, is often absent. When her kids go on a ski holiday Claire finds herself alone. Distraught, she goes out one evening with her friend Gisèle and meets a fashion designer, named Michel. Spark fly and Claire winds up getting seduced by him. Fallen in the trap of adultery: will the young woman be able to accept all her lover's fantasies?


The Young Girls of Rochefort
1967 · 2h 6m
country: France
In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.


Happiness
1965 · 1h 20m
country: France
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, 'Le bonheur' examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.


The Married Woman
1964 · 1h 35m
country: France
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.


The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · 1h 33m
country: France
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.


Vivre Sa Vie
1962 · 1h 24m
country: France
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.