Balzac: A Passionate Life
Balzac
France, Italy, Germany
1999
210 Min
Color
1.85:1
French
Synopsis
Gérard Depardieu — cast partly for his resemblance to Rodin’s sculpture of Honoré de Balzac — plays the French literary genius in this miniseries that focuses on Balzac’s troubled relationships with women and how they inspired his greatest works. Jeanne Moreau plays Balzac’s cold and overcritical mother; Virna Lisa is his high-society lover; and Fanny Ardent is Countess Eve Hanska, the married noblewoman for whom Balzac pined.
Director
Josée Dayan
Born in 1943, Josée Dayan grew up in Algiers beside her television-director father and a grandmother who owned a movie theater. She has directed more than one hundred television movies, often literary adaptations, which she has made with the biggest names in French cinema. Among others, she has directed Gérard Depardieu in Balzac in 1999, Catherine Deneuve in Les liaisons dangereuses in 2003, Jeanne Moreau in Cet amour-là in 2001. —docstoc.com
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