
March 18, 1947 · 79 years old
Patrick Chesnais (born 18 March 1947) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Patrick Chesnais was born in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. In 1989, he won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance…

The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.

Caroline has retired and realizes that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood's senior club - Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge.

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Cons...

In the midst of a midlife crisis, writer Simon Polaris no longer wants to write. One day, his psychoanalyst told him that he had the watch that John F Kennedy would have worn on the day of his death. This watch becomes a fixation ...

When Jocelyne, a seamstress in the northern French town of Arras, finds out she's won EUR18 million on the lottery and that she can now have anything she wants, she only has one fear: losing her modest way of life made up of simpl...

Damien is an educator in primary school. When a kid is about to be expelled out of the country with his mother, he decides to tell the authorities he's the father and convinces his lawyer sister and his best friend Rudy to join th...

Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with...

Marie, a teenager, and her little brother Vincent, five years old, have just lost their mother. They decide to send a telegram to their father who has abandoned them for a long time, and go together to find him.