Mélusine Mayance

Mélusine Mayance (born 21 March 1999 in Paris) is a French actress. She is best known for her role in the 2010 French-Language film "Sarah's Key", in which she portrayed the childhood version of the story's main character "Sarah Starzynski" (whose life story is uncovered and told by Kristin Scott Thomas's character many decades after the end of the second world war). Known in French as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the historical fiction film is set in 1942 France, in the midst of the second world war. Mélusine's character is a young Jewish child whose family is rounded up and arrested in downtown Paris during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup before being sent to Auschwitz for extermination. Mayance rose to success while starring in films such as Vive Les Vacances! and Ricky in which she plays the half-sister of an infant boy who grows a pair of wings.

The Brats (2013)

Newly engaged, Thomas meets his future father-in-law Gilbert, who has been married for 30 years to Suzanne. Disillusioned Gilbert is convinced that his marriage has meant he's missed out on life. He persuades Thomas not to marry his daughter Lola and encourages him ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anthony Marciano
CAST:  Alain Chabat  •  Max Boublil  •  Sandrine Kiberlain  •  Mélanie Bernier

Newly engaged, Thomas meets his future father-in-law Gilbert, who has been married for 30 years to Suzanne. Disillusioned Gilbert is convinced that his marriage has meant he's missed out on life. He persuades Thomas not to marry his daughter Lola and encourages him ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anthony Marciano
CAST:  Alain Chabat  •  Max Boublil  •  Sandrine Kiberlain  •  Mélanie Bernier

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Arnaud des Pallières
CAST:  Mads Mikkelsen  •  Mélusine Mayance  •  Delphine Chuillot  •  Bruno Ganz

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Arnaud des Pallières
CAST:  Mads Mikkelsen  •  Mélusine Mayance  •  Delphine Chuillot  •  Bruno Ganz

Miroir mon amour (2012)

The story starts where the tale ends: Snow White wakes up to the age of sexuality and discovers a world where the dwarves have become tall, and her Prince Charming is deprived of charisma. And, most terrible of all, her mother is incomparably more sexy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Siegrid Alnoy
CAST:  Fanny Ardant  •  Carlo Brandt  •  Judith Chemla  •  Laurent Stocker

The story starts where the tale ends: Snow White wakes up to the age of sexuality and discovers a world where the dwarves have become tall, and her Prince Charming is deprived of charisma. And, most terrible of all, her mother is incomparably more sexy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Siegrid Alnoy
CAST:  Fanny Ardant  •  Carlo Brandt  •  Judith Chemla  •  Laurent Stocker

The Skin of Sorrow (2010)

In 19th-century France, a man (Thomas Coumans) magically has his wishes come true but at a price that shortens his life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alain Berliner
CAST:  Jean-Pierre Marielle  •  Mylène Jampanoï  •  Julien Honoré  •  Anne Kreis

In 19th-century France, a man (Thomas Coumans) magically has his wishes come true but at a price that shortens his life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alain Berliner
CAST:  Jean-Pierre Marielle  •  Mylène Jampanoï  •  Julien Honoré  •  Anne Kreis

Sarah's Key (2010)

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gilles Paquet-Brenner
CAST:  Kristin Scott Thomas  •  Niels Arestrup  •  Frédéric Pierrot  •  Michel Duchaussoy

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gilles Paquet-Brenner
CAST:  Kristin Scott Thomas  •  Niels Arestrup  •  Frédéric Pierrot  •  Michel Duchaussoy

Ricky (2009)

When Katie meets Paco they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal.  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Ozon
CAST:  Sergi López  •  Alexandra Lamy  •  Mélusine Mayance  •  Arthur Peyret

When Katie meets Paco they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal.  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Ozon
CAST:  Sergi López  •  Alexandra Lamy  •  Mélusine Mayance  •  Arthur Peyret

Brotherhood of Tears (2013)

Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage child Juliette. One day, by pure chance, he finds a suspicious but extremely well paid job: his daily mission ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Baptiste Andrea
CAST:  Jérémie Renier  •  Audrey Fleurot  •  Mélusine Mayance  •  Bouli Lanners

Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage child Juliette. One day, by pure chance, he finds a suspicious but extremely well paid job: his daily mission ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Baptiste Andrea
CAST:  Jérémie Renier  •  Audrey Fleurot  •  Mélusine Mayance  •  Bouli Lanners

Ça va passer... mais quand? (2014)

Sophie and Patrick are a well-off couple who are offered the prospect of changing their city by Patrick's rise to work. The problems of the transfer are joined by a larger one, their daughter is in the midst of a teenage crisis and turns family life into hell  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stéphane Kappes
CAST:  Julie Gayet  •  Stéphane Freiss  •  Mélusine Mayance  •  Manu Libert

Sophie and Patrick are a well-off couple who are offered the prospect of changing their city by Patrick's rise to work. The problems of the transfer are joined by a larger one, their daughter is in the midst of a teenage crisis and turns family life into hell  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stéphane Kappes
CAST:  Julie Gayet  •  Stéphane Freiss  •  Mélusine Mayance  •  Manu Libert

Un soupçon d'innocence (2010)

In a rural setting on the weather-beaten French Atlantic coast, the ten year old daughter of a single mother is implicated in murder. Crime scene evidence contradicts the story of the talented, introverted child as expressed in her Mangas.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olivier Péray
CAST:  Pascale Arbillot  •  Mélusine Mayance  •  Carole Franck  •  Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

In a rural setting on the weather-beaten French Atlantic coast, the ten year old daughter of a single mother is implicated in murder. Crime scene evidence contradicts the story of the talented, introverted child as expressed in her Mangas.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olivier Péray
CAST:  Pascale Arbillot  •  Mélusine Mayance  •  Carole Franck  •  Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

Les Associés (2009)

Three men in a flat are waiting on a big drug deal that's about to go down in the neighborhood in a few days.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alain Berliner
CAST:  François Berléand  •  Thierry Frémont  •  Sophie Duez  •  Christopher Lambert

Three men in a flat are waiting on a big drug deal that's about to go down in the neighborhood in a few days.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alain Berliner
CAST:  François Berléand  •  Thierry Frémont  •  Sophie Duez  •  Christopher Lambert

Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne (2017)

In 1477 Charles the Bold dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule without a husband. Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy falls.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andreas Prochaska
CAST:  Jannis Niewöhner  •  Alix Poisson  •  Martin Wuttke  •  Miriam Fussenegger

In 1477 Charles the Bold dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule without a husband. Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy falls.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andreas Prochaska
CAST:  Jannis Niewöhner  •  Alix Poisson  •  Martin Wuttke  •  Miriam Fussenegger

Bouquet final (2011)

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DIRECTION:  Josée Dayan
CAST:  Jeanne Moreau  •  Jean-Pierre Marielle  •  Claude Rich  •  Jean-Luc Bideau

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DIRECTION:  Josée Dayan
CAST:  Jeanne Moreau  •  Jean-Pierre Marielle  •  Claude Rich  •  Jean-Luc Bideau