Jean-Daniel Pollet Movies

Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena.

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...

A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην...

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring...

A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.

An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.

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...

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...

Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.

In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.

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...

An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo,...

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien,...

A lonely dishwasher hires a prostitute and brings her to his dingy apartment to enliven his dreary life for a night.

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...

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...

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...

He inhabits the world just like he inhabits his house: motionless. A serious accident nailed him there: in a house in the middle of a large garden....

Père Lachaise cemetery reflects the socio-economic hierarchy of French society during the second half of the 19th century. The film pays...

Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro...