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Alain Jessua began his career as assistant to directors like Max Ophüls, Marcel Carne, Yves Allégret and Jacques Becker, before making his unique short film, Léon la lune, which earned him the prestigious Prix Jean-Vigo award in 1957. A few years later, in 1963, his first feature film (which became "cult" among moviegoers) won two prizes in Cannes and also Venice: La Vie à l'envers, with Charles Denner and Jean Yanne in his first movie role. He then went on to direct a series of successful and critically acclaimed feature films, which he produced himself (a rare risk in the French cinema landscape).
Alain Jessua is regularly honored in France and abroad. His short film Léon la lune was screened at the MOMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York a few years ago and Martin Scorsese cited La Vie à l'envers as one of the films that really made an impact on him. Jean Tulard , in his "Dictionary of Cinema", writes: "He proposes a cinema where he tackles the problems of our time and makes cries of alarm. "
Alain Jessua is also the author of six novels.
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22 January 1997
A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul.
03 February 1988
When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident.
01 September 1964
A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own.
18 January 1973
Hélène Masson visits her friend Gérôme Savignat in the isolated rejuvenation clinic owned by Dr. Devilers and his partner Dr.
23 December 1955
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
24 February 1960
Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement.
16 April 1953
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them.
14 August 1984
French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for philosophy, etiquette and occasional bouts of murderous rage.
01 January 2013
Documentary on Max Ophüls and the making of Madame de...
18 September 2006
Interview with Alain Jessua about his work on Max Ophuls' 1953 film THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...
16 March 1977
After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident.
29 April 1967
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip.
07 March 1979
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to put a stop to the climb of violence.
25 August 1982
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux.
31 January 2019
The story of the French fantasy cinema from Méliès to Raw.
01 January 1956
The film documents an old drifter in Paris in the poetic realist style
19 November 2021
The director Alain Jessua evokes his beginnings, his career and recalls with passion his experience with the greatest filmmakers.
