Marc Eyraud

Acteur

Films

Happiness

Door Agnès Varda

1964 | 82 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 82 min | 1964

François is married and has two children. When he meets a beautiful postwoman, his happiness is at its height. But by the way, what exactly is happiness? François, a young carpenter working for his uncle, lives a comfortable and happy life married to his wife Thérèse, with whom he has two seemingly perfect children, Pierrot and Gisou. Although finding abundant "happiness" in his marriage and indisputably loving his wife and children, François covetously pursues an extended happiness through an affair ...

Le Coup de Grâce

Door Volker Schlöndorff

1976 | 97 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 97 min | 1976

A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster. 1976's Coup de Grace (released in Germany as Der Fangschluss) was inspired by a Marguerite Yourcenar novel and directed by Volker Schlondorff. The story is set in Latvia in 1919, at the height of the Soviet Civil War. Margarethe von Trotta plays an aristocrat sympathetic to the Communist cause. Besides her ruinous habit of falling love with men who do not love her, Margarethe's tragic flaw is her refusal to acknowledge the cost of ...