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Sabine Azéma

Sabine Azéma

5 films · 280 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19832015

Born 20 September 1949 · Paris, France

Sabine Azéma is a French stage and film actress and director.

Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.

Her film career began in 1975. Azéma appeared in A Sunday in the Country (1984), for which she won a César Award for Best Actress, and numerous films of Alain Resnais, including Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983), L'Amour à mort (1984), Mélo (which won her a second César Award for Best Actress), Smoking/No Smoking (1993), On connaît la chanson (1997), Pas sur la bouche (2003), and Cœurs (2006). She has been nominated a further five times.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Sabine Azéma, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 280 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19832015

  • César Award for Best Actress1987
  • César Award for Best Actress1985
  • Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres2015

How their films are shot

Measured across 280 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sabine takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 58% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Sabine takes.

Time of day

Night58%
Day32%
Interior8%

Lighting

Low key51%
Natural37%
High key10%

Shot size

Medium41%
Wide29%
Closeup18%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level92%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral68%
Tense16%
Lonely11%
Ominous4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

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