Dominique Lavanant Archives

Paulette

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

NR

6.4

2012 Comedy 87 min Play

4.8

Agathe Cléry

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.

NR

4.8

2008 Comedy 113 min Play

5.3

La Smala

When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship. Meanwhile, the father grabs his brood and they take off for Paris in search of the wife. But Simone accidentally ends up on the same train...

NR

5.3

1984 Comedy 0 min Play

5.2

Men Prefer Fat Girls

Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.

NR

5.2

1981 Comedy 86 min Play

5

You Won’t Have Alsace-Lorraine

Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...

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5

1977 Comedy 92 min Play