Joëlle Miquel

Joëlle Miquel

Acting
1972-01-26
Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles

#1Apostrophes

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Self

8.5 / 10
Talk

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

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#2Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as UTA hostess

7.2 / 10
DramaAdventure

A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.

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#3Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Reinette

7.4 / 10
ComedyDrama

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.

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#4Backstage

Movie - 2005, 2h 15m as Une fan

5.3 / 10
Drama

An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intertwine as, with near-operatic intensity, the film delves into the emotional dependency on both sides of celebrity culture.

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#5Le Pactole

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.6 / 10
Crime

Yves Beaulieu lives with his wife Anne, his daughter Stephanie and his mother-in-law. Tired of his dangerous, thankless, underpaid and unrecognized job as a deminer, Yves decides to try his luck and carries out a robbery in the nearby supermarket. Hunted by Inspector Rousselet (Patrick Sébastien), he is subjected to a mysterious blackmail and tries to escape justice to profit from the fruits of his crime.

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#6There Were Days... and Moons

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as La femme de ménage

6.2 / 10
DramaComedy

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.

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#7The Beautiful Story

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.1 / 10
AdventureDramaFantasy

A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.

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#8Top Kids

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Mercedes Jellinek

5.7 / 10
TV MovieSci-Fi

A fun journey through the history of the automobile, this film is about a group of future computer hackers that wire an arcade game to work as a time machine. Among appearances in the movie are Henry Ford, Mercedes Benz, and modern race car driver Niki Lauda, as one of the boys becomes trapped within the newly created game.

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#9Snow and Fire

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m as Suzanne

4.8 / 10
WarDramaRomance

While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a significant portion of their country from German control, he and his buddy Michel (Matthieu Roze) can join the Free French army and fight with them to help bring about the downfall of the German empire. Both of them are quite young men, and their first love turns out to be the same woman, a lovely nurse named Christiane (Geraldine Pailhas). Michel woos her first, and she becomes pregnant by him. However, she is much more interested in Jacques, even though she is considering marrying an American solely for practical reasons.

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