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Jean-Daniel Pollet (1936–2004) was a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis Ponge.
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24 October 1971
An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.
20 March 1971
An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future.
01 January 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 sartorial inadequacies.
01 March 1971
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.
23 April 1963
[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 object’).
21 May 1986
Père Lachaise cemetery reflects the socio-economic hierarchy of French society during the second half of the 19th century.
07 July 2006
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.
05 April 1968
In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.
01 January 1965
A lonely dishwasher hires a prostitute and brings her to his dingy apartment to enliven his dreary life for a night.
12 December 1968
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 that of the hero of the eighteenth century.
10 March 1976
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.
01 January 1960
Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence.
26 September 2001
In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien, her companion and Mikael's friend.
18 April 1990
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.
01 August 1991
From Provence to Greece, a journey on the mortal remains and ruins of ancient civilizations.
01 January 2016
For the "Cinéma, de notre temps" collection, Jean-Paul Fargier sends his friend filmmaker Jean-Daniel Pollet a letter written to the second person.
18 April 1990
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 unknown and hidden from the view of everyone in Paris.
01 January 1964
"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.
01 January 1973
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 the island with his fellow sufferers.
19 May 1965
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St.
23 February 1966
Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property.
19 February 1975
Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.
19 May 1964
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave.
01 January 1990
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.
04 August 1994
A homage to journalist Francis Ponge in a film that its author regarded as “natural.”
21 January 1971
In 1971, Jean-Daniel Pollet & Guy Seligmann directed for French TV a documentary about French artist César Baldaccini.
21 July 1978
A foundry in Perche was established in 1876. This is a final homage paid to the ancestral occupation of foundrymen, whose actions have been repeated innumerable times through the years and which are now going to disappear forever.
31 December 1966
A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.
28 May 1967
Television program produced for the magazine “Lire” on the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis, including a radio interview with the writer and excerpts from Ascèse: Salvatores Dei read by Maurice Ronet.
01 January 1966
From antiquity to Modigliani, women's faces painted through the centuries and edited according to the theme of "Pierrot le fou", composed by Antoine Duhamel.
23 April 1958
A study of loneliness set in a dance hall of suburban Paris.
01 January 1966
This documentary about the cod fishing industry was filmed on a fishing boat near the Arctic Circle.
