Jean-Daniel Pollet Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

From Provence to Greece, a journey on the mortal remains and ruins of ancient civilizations.

This film is dedicated to Mas-Félipe Delavouët, the poet discovered by Lawrence Durrell, who wrote 14,000 verses in Provençal over...

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

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.

[Here] Pollet made a work that is the very definition of what French critics like to call an ovni or ufo (as in ‘unidentified filmic...

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

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

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

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...

From antiquity to Modigliani, women's faces painted through the centuries and edited according to the theme of "Pierrot le fou", composed by Antoine...

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

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....

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...

A homage to journalist Francis Ponge in a film that its author regarded as “natural.”

About images and photographs of real estate and specific objects of the urban landscape, a voice speaks to us of the search for something that is...