Movies: Jean-Daniel Pollet
- 1965
Six in Paris (1965)
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Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile ...
- 1966
A Bullet Through the Heart (1966)
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A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην καρδιά) is a 1966 Franco-Greek film directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet. Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his propert...
- 1963
Méditerranée (1963)
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Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena....
- 1968
Imagine Robinson Crusoe (1968)
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A cinematographic poem in the form of variations around the theme of Robinson, a utopian fable freely inspired by Daniel Defoe's novel, which speaks above all of solitude: the immense weakness of today's man in the face of loneliness is no longer tha...
- 1976
The Acrobat (1976)
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Leon who works as a bathhouse attendant discovers a passion for the tango that will change his life. He falls in love with Fumée, a young and pretty prostitute who becomes his partner in tango contests....
- 1964
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même (1964)
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Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, J...
- 1964
Bassae (1964)
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"I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon’s glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no white marble, no nothing. All Greek temples are dedicated to Apollo etc, and this particular one was not ded...
- 1961
Gala (1961)
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Gala (1961), a more polished version of Pourvu, set in a black cha-cha nightclub. Relying more upon looks, faces, and unease, rather than gags or dialogue, Pollet sets the cool elegance of the club's manager against the decidedly uncool Melki and his...
- 1971
Le Sang (1971)
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An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo, German expressionism of the twenties, and the ideologically motivated ‘cruelty’ of a Buñuel come together ...
- 1971
Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad (1971)
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In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hi...
- 1958
As Long as You Get Drunk... (1958)
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Jean Daniel Pollet’ was 22 when he made his debut short movie, "Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse" in 1957. It is a study of loneliness set in the dance hall of suburban Paris in the 50's starring Claude Melki, a young unknown non-actor whom Pollet discover...
- 1990
L'Arbre et le Soleil (1990)
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This film is dedicated to Mas-Félipe Delavouët, the poet discovered by Lawrence Durrell, who wrote 14,000 verses in Provençal over a period of thirty years, and who died on November 18, 1990. "The sky, history and Mediterranean and Provençal myths ar...
- 1968
Strange Game (1968)
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In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator....
- 1960
Line of Sight (1960)
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Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro wanders between the park and the salons, playing the songs he composed on the guitar. He notices strang...
- 1975
The Others (1975)
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Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections....
- 1971
Le Maître du temps (1971)
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An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras....
- 1990
Contretemps (1990)
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As a rereading of his films, "Contretemps" (in the fight against time), Jean-Daniel Pollet brings together excerpts of his films and a report by Jean Baronnet. The author Philippe Sollers and philosopher Julia Kristeva voice their thoughts....
- 1973
The Order (1973)
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Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of his life to the camera after having been excluded from his community to spend years of his life on th...
- 1966
The Horla (1966)
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A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant....
- 1965
Rue Saint-Denis (1965)
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A lonely dishwasher hires a prostitute and brings her to his dingy apartment to enliven his dreary life for a night....