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Christiane Desbois

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Christiane Desbois in A Tale of Winter (1992)
Eric Rohmer was unsurpassed at creating intelligent romantic comedies and intelligent female characters. A Tale of Winter, one of his most genial and audacious films, is a superb example of both facets. With Rohmer’s characteristic delight in surprise and paradox, winter, not spring, is seen as the season of rebirth and renewal, and its tale begins on a sunny beach. A young couple, Félicie and Charles, meet while on holiday and fall deeply in love. In a fatal slip, she gives him the wrong address, and, as a result, he disappears from her life. Five years later, at Christmas time, Félicie is a hairdresser in the Paris suburbs with a daughter (Charles’) and two lovers: the successful Maxence and the intellectual Loïc. She loves them both, but, as she says, “There’s love and love,” and the love that counts is the one she still holds for the long lost Charles. Félicie is one of the most fascinating in Rohmer’s distinguished line of heroines: impulsive, independent, thoughtlessly frank, disarmingly sincere, at once exasperating and enchanting. The plot centers on Félicie’s shifting allegiances to the three men in her life, with an abortive move to another city, a strange experience in the cathedral of Nevers, and a performance of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale among the stations on a roundabout journey that finally brings her face to face with the most basic issues of destiny and faith.
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Christiane Desbois is known for Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1960), Un coeur qui bat (1991) and A Tale of Winter (1992).
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    Known for

    Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1960)
    Le théâtre de la jeunesse
    7.7
    TV Series
    • Virginia
    Un coeur qui bat (1991)
    Un coeur qui bat
    6.5
    • Hotel-keeper
    • 1991
    A Tale of Winter (1992)
    A Tale of Winter
    7.2
    • Mother
    • 1992
    Emmanuelle Béart in Les enfants du désordre (1989)
    Les enfants du désordre
    6.2
    • La Mère
    • 1989

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    Actress

    • A Tale of Winter (1992)
      A Tale of Winter
      7.2
      • Mother
      • 1992
    • Un coeur qui bat (1991)
      Un coeur qui bat
      6.5
      • Hotel-keeper
      • 1991
    • Emmanuelle Béart in Les enfants du désordre (1989)
      Les enfants du désordre
      6.2
      • La Mère
      • 1989
    • Les jeux de société (1989)
      Les jeux de société
      6.1
      TV Movie
      • 1989
    • Un changement de saison (1975)
      Un changement de saison
      TV Movie
      • 1975
    • La dérobade (1973)
      La dérobade
      TV Movie
      • Françoise
      • 1973
    • En votre âme et conscience (1955)
      En votre âme et conscience
      7.7
      TV Series
      • Louise Magnien
      • 1966
    • En France comme si vous y étiez (1966)
      En France comme si vous y étiez
      TV Series
      • 1966
    • Ruy Blas (1965)
      Ruy Blas
      TV Movie
      • Casilda
      • 1965
    • Beaucoup de bruit pour rien (1964)
      Beaucoup de bruit pour rien
      TV Movie
      • Célia
      • 1964
    • Magic Hôtel (1964)
      Magic Hôtel
      TV Movie
      • Claire Philippe
      • 1964
    • Cent ans d'amour (1962)
      Cent ans d'amour
      TV Series
      • Miss Hopkins (extrait de 'L'Illusionniste')
      • 1963
    • Asmodée (1963)
      Asmodée
      TV Movie
      • Emmanuelle
      • 1963
    • Les cinq dernières minutes (1958)
      Les cinq dernières minutes
      7.6
      TV Series
      • Sylvie
      • 1962
    • Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1960)
      Le théâtre de la jeunesse
      7.7
      TV Series
      • Virginia
      • 1962

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