André Téchiné

André Téchiné

Date of Birth: 13 Mar 1943

Country: France

Biography: André Téchiné (born 13 March 1943) is a French screenwriter and film director. He has a long and distinguished career that places him among the most accomplished post-New Wave French film directors.

Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 23 (Director), 17 (Writer)

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    Alice & Martin
    At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains very mysterious about his past and the reasons why he left his family. But when Alice tells him she's pregnant, he is suddenly almost driven to madness, as his past comes back to his mind. Alice will now do anything she can to help him. (imdb)
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    Strayed
    June 1940. German troops are advancing on Paris. Odile, a widowed teacher, succumbs to the widespread panic and, with her two children, joins the exodus from the city. Philippe is on the cusp of adolescence, Little Cathy knows only that they are going South. After fifty kilometres, a German plane attacks, decimating the helpless refugees. Odile and her children lose everything. A shaven-headed youth appears from nowhere and leads them away from the carnage... (imdb)
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    Wild Reeds
    In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962. Maite and Francois are 18 years old. They are friends, not lovers (imdb)
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    Rendez-vous
    A provocative erotic drama, stylishly rendered by Andre Techine, who won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this compelling investigation into the intersection of sexual and artistic passion. (imdb)
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    Scene of the Crime
    In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day... (imdb)
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    Barocco
    The story of Barocco is about a girl (Adjani) that is in love with a boxer (Depardieu). They plan to went abroad after making a lot of money by cheating in a match. (imdb)
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    Les Voleurs
    In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son... (imdb)
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    Changing Times
    Traveling from France to Tangiers, a man looks to reunite with his former love, though their romance ended some 30 years earlier.
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    Ma saison préférée
    Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will come up, and will be depicted both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine. (imdb)
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    The Witnesses
    A fast-moving, engrossing multiple-character drama that brings the AIDS crisis of the 1980s into laser focus... (Variety.com)
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    Hotel America
    Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, deciding she could never love someone of lower class and limited prospects. But she does fall in love with him and gradually her depression eases... (imdb)
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    J\
    A young man leaves his native town in southern France to discover Paris. Being too unexperienced and too naive, he drops into the reality of Paris 1991. He soon gives up his dream of becoming an actor and prostitutes himself. Throughout all these modern relationships, he keeps his innocence but becomes very emotionally blocked. (imdb)
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    The Girl on the Train
    A drama centered on a young woman who claims she was the target of an anti-Semitic attack and the subsequent media sensation it creates. (imdb)
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    Les soeurs Brontë
    In a remote English village of the 1840s, three sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - live a simple life with their brother, Branwell, and their father, the pastor Patrick Brontë. Although compelled to take up posts as governesses or private tutors, the four loyal siblings continue to nurture their artistic aspirations. Branwell's poems are beginning to interest other writers and each of the three sisters has published a successful novel. But then tragedy strikes.
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    Unforgivable
    Francis arrives in Venice seeking peace and quiet to write his next novel. Looking to rent a small apartment, he meets Judith a real estate broker. For Francis, it's love at first sight. Judith insists that he should see a remote house on Sant' Erasmo island. Taking the plunge, Francis says "if we move in together, I'll sign right away". So begins their life as a couple. (mubi.com)
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    Far
    In Tangier, intercontinental truck driver Serge is in love with Sarah, but is in some trouble of his own. Film generally concerns Moroccans with various relationships with the country: visiting staying, leaving & contemplating. (imdb)
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    Les innocents
    Techiné's most rare movie.
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    In the Name of My Daughter
    Nice, 1976. Agnès Le Roux, daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with a beautiful lawyer ten years his senior Maurice Agnelet. It has other links, she loves to madness. Against a background of war casinos, he connects with Fratoni, sour competitor of his mother, who offers him three million francs to take control of the casino. Agnes accepts but resents his betrayal. Maurice away. After a suicide attempt, the young woman disappears ...
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    Being 17
    Damien and Thomas attend the same grammar school class. They cannot stand each other and whenever verbal insults fail to do enough damage they take a swing at each other. Yet they could just as easily be friends. (berlinale.de)
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    Golden Years
    Based on a true story, a soldier deserts during WWI and dresses as a woman to escape the law. This triggers upheavals in his sexual behaviour and couple. (imdb)
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    L\
    Muriel farms horses and owns an almond plantation. When her grandson comes to visit her for one last time before he leaves for Canada. She learns that he has dark secrets. (imdb)
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    Soul Mates
    In Mali, lieutenant David Faber is seriously burned during the explosion of his armored vehicle. Repatriated in intensive care in France, he must begin a long convalescence, under the worried but devoted gaze of his sister Jeanne. They meet in the family home in the Alps, between mountains, lakes and forests. Jeanne tries to reconnect her brother with the past, but David, who suffers from amnesia after the accident, does not seem anxious to reconcile with who he was. (allocine)
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    Souvenirs d\
    Berthe Pedret, a simple laundry woman who marries Hector, son of a wealthy, upper class, Spanish immigrant family that owns a successful farm machinery factory. Through a series of vignettes, Techine depicts the passage of years, during which the ambitious working class woman blooms through several bold moves, such as negotiating a workers' strike settlement and using her alliance with the war-time French Resistance movement to increase the enterprise's prestige. (imdb)
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