Synopsis: 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 (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.Read More »
Méditerranée is a 1963 French experimental film directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet with assistance from Volker Schlöndorff. It was written by Philippe Sollers and produced by Barbet Schroeder, with music by Antione Duhamel. The 45 minute film is cited as one of Pollet’s most influential films, which according to Jonathan Rosenbaum directly influenced Jean-Luc Goddard’s Contempt, released later the same year.[1] Footage for the film was shot around the Mediterranean, including at a Greek temple, a Sicilian garden, the sea, and also features a fisherman, a bullfighter, and a girl on an operating table.Read More »
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From Provence to Greece, a very personal travel diary shot while Jean-Daniel Pollet accepts an invitation to participate in a conference. Leaving is always a fantastic endeavor and the filmmaker sublimates the experience by gleaning images of places and loved ones. Images of Delphi, Bassae, Ancient Greece … But for Pollet these images are not enough, and he must also speak of the world … News, television and even Peugeot advertising images, which resulted in the film being blocked for many months.Read More »
The film is based on the pictures Jean-Daniel Pollet took before dying for an entire year, day by day. The film recounts the filmmaker’s life as he saw it through his camera lens. Extremely debilitated from being hit by a train in 1989, in 2001 he retired to his farmhouse photographing the now more restricted world around him. Jean-Paul Fargier has tried to uses these images, interwoven with footage of moments spent with his friend, to create a piece about this artist and to render as faithfully as possible the feelings that drove him. “When he ordered the text from me, Jean-Daniel only imposed two words: anxiety and serenity. I understood that he spoke of his own anxiety, his own serenity, his life approaching its end, his work about to reach an abrupt conclusion. It is with those two words, as I heard them that I worked out the text, as Pollet’s confession.” (J. P. Fargier)Read More »
This utopian fable that takes place on an island in Greece, is freely inspired by Daniel Defoe’s novel and speaks above all about loneliness: the immense weakness of today’s man, confronted by his loneliness, is no longer that of the hero of the 18th century. Robinson Crusoe’s story is only seen as the fictional basis, which is surpassed to achieve something universal that time does not alter. The spectators are put in the condition of being interested above all in the writing of the images and not in Robinson’s story, since in general they know it.Read More »
Le Sang re-enacts the utopia of the Living Theater, a theatrical company founded in 1947 and boasting collective creation, the liberation of bodies (the actors played naked) and the counterculture. But happiness is dangerous and the utopia mortal: Leon drowns in the dance, believing to find freedom. (imdb)Read More »
Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist’s vicious henchmen.Read More »
One of the first films of the French nouvelle vague, this film has been never released. In fact, Jean-Daniel Pollet did not want the film to be made available to the public at all, and it only found it way out of Archives Françaises du Film after the death of the author.Read More »
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An alien, master of the time from a distant star who travels centuries to centuries, explores our planet. He finds himself on a Brazilian beach with his magic ring.Read More »