Movies: Violette Verdy

"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress Julie and through this screen of love obse...

A young dancer, disappointed with her debut on stage, has three dreams: fame in dancing at the Paris Opera, wealth through her marriage to an important jeweler, and love in the person of a petty hood. Disappointed even in her dreams, the ballerina ta...

At the Paris Opera, a ballet dancer Monique Loudières performs "Giselle," "In the Night," and "Don Quixote" alongside some of today's greatest artists....