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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1964-12-14

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Noémie Lvovsky

Biography

Noémie Lvovsky (born 14 December 1964) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress. Lvovsky was born in Paris in 1964, the daughter of Jewish parents who emigrated from Ukraine to flee pogroms. She studied cinema at La Fémis in Paris, notably a contemporary of Arnaud Desplechin, with whom she often collaborates. Her first two films cast Emmanuelle Devos, who was then at the beginning of her career. She is the actress with most nominations for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress, with six nominations: in 2002 for My Wife Is an Actress, in 2006 for Backstage, in 2008 for Actrices, in 2010 for The French Kissers, in 2012 for House of Pleasures and in 2016 for Summertime. Her film Sentiments was nominated for the César Award for Best Film in 2004. Her film Camille redouble was selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prix SACD. She was named as one of the jury members for the Cinéfondation and short film sections of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Source: Article "Noémie Lvovsky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

The Flame

The Flame

For nine weeks, thirteen contenders will have to compete in a beautiful villa to try to seduce Marc, an airline pilot, looking for love. Which of these women will manage to light the flame?

Le Cercle

Le Cercle

As long as there is cinema, LE CERCLE will be there. It is the only television program of critical debates 100% devoted to cinema. Each week, it offers fiery, joyful and non-condescending jousts on the films on the bill; and invites with "Le questionnaire du CERCLE" directors to come and share their passion for cinema.

Duse

Duse

In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she makes her art a revolutionary act, even at the cost of sacrificing health and affection—facing her final journey aware she could give up life itself, but not her own true nature.

Jeanne du Barry

Jeanne du Barry

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.

Fool Circle

Fool Circle

Two, very different, brothers are reunited for their father's funeral. But, when they arrive at the crematorium nobody is there, not even the corpse, except for Chloe who introduces herself as their sister.

House of Pleasures

House of Pleasures

The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.

Reformed

Reformed

After becoming one of the rare female rabbis, Léa juggles everyone's complex questions with her chaotic personal life and her own search for meaning.

Shana

Shana

Shana navigates the trials and tribulations of everyday life with boundless energy and the support of her group of friends. When her grandmother passes away, she inherits a ring that is supposed to protect her from bad luck. Shana certainly needs this helping hand. Especially since her toxic partner has been released from prison, and misfortunes are piling up…

The Hunchback: Soul of Paris

The Hunchback: Soul of Paris

As cholera threatens to ravage the city of Paris in 1830, a hunchback hunted for medical experiments is caught between political turmoil and impossible love.

Chocolat

Chocolat

Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.

Samber

Samber

Late 80’s in Northern France, women are being sexually assaulted along the same road by the Samber river – with attacks taking place early mornings and in a similar style. The police fail to get to grips with the extent of these assaults or make a connection between the cases. The justice system is overwhelmed by the accumulating cases. It will take 30 years to catch a man, who never stopped attacking women and is responsible for at least 54 cases of rape or sexual assault.

Nice Girls

Nice Girls

A maverick cop and a meticulous detective join forces with a charming ex-hacker to solve an officer's disappearance and save Nice from disaster.

The French Kissers

The French Kissers

An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.

My Old Lady

My Old Lady

Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.

Summertime

Summertime

In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.