Jean-Michel Carré Trailers
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Jean-Michel Carré, born July 26, 1948, in Paris, is a French film director, documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, film producer, and screenwriter. Coming from a modest background, he first studied medicine before turning to filmmaking, a passion he cultivated since his adolescence. He attended IDHEC (now La Fémis), where he earned degrees in filmmaking and directing.
From the very beginning, Carré was committed to militant and activist filmmaking. In 1968, he made a documentary on Cuba, which was banned from broadcast, marking the beginning of his commitment to denouncing social and political injustices. In 1974, he co-founded the first censored film festival, affirming his desire to bring about social change through his works.
He founded the production company Les Films Grain de Sable, dedicated to criticizing social institutions and systems. His filmography is rich and varied, including documentaries and fiction films that address themes such as working conditions, human rights, and social struggles. Among his notable works are The Putin System (2007), I (Have a Very Bad Day at Work) (2007), and Sex Workers (2010).
Carré is also known for his immersive approach to documentaries. For example, for Burning Coals (2000), he spent a year with miners in Wales to capture their reality with authenticity. His work has received numerous awards, including the FIGRA Grand Jury Prize for Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters (2004).
His commitment is not limited to cinema, as he has also explored international issues such as apartheid, conflicts in the Middle East, and transformations in China. In 2013, he spoke of his libertarian Maoist past, a contradiction he accepts to explain his interest in complex and nuanced subjects.
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15 July 1995
A misanthropic Parisian street punk learns some difficult lessons after being captured for assaulting and robbing a man in this interesting French drama.
11 April 2003
Dominique Bazin is a 40-year-old woman, business manager, married to Camille, English teacher. They have three children, including an infant.
30 November 2016
Since Russia was brought to its knees in the 1990s by crippling debt and the grip of the oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin has made it his mission to return superpower status to Russia.
01 January 1976
césar nomination 1977
06 July 2001
An elderly foreign diplomat working in Moscow meets a Russian girl Alice. The temporary absence of his wife and daughter, the same age as Alice, favor the beginning of a stormy romance.
01 September 2002
The idea of the current project was born during the making of the long documentary “Charbons Ardents” which dealt with the present-day struggle of a group of coal miners who had bought out their mine and become its sole owners.
01 January 1985
A contemporary scenario, in which American journalist Doug Ireland visits Europe and meets an oppressed young Arab man, is played against the celebrated story of Emperor Hadrian’s relationship with his favourite Antinous.
11 December 1991
A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner.
03 December 1975
1974 saw the end of beans. The Halles were being destroyed. The extreme left was hesitating between the Molotof cocktail.
11 May 1977
Freetown Christiania, also known as Christiania, is an intentional community and commune of about 850 to 1,000 residents, covering 7.
27 September 2023
For around fifteen years, no Western camera has been able to get to the heart of Tibet. In this challenging and revelatory doc, Director Jean-Michel Carré gains authorisation over several months to film the human, economic and political realities of the region – one that exists outside time, but which is still in constant evolution towards a modernity imposed by China.
15 July 2018
Documentary charting the rise of Chinese art following the death of Mao, and how some artists embraced Western styles while other critiqued it by hijacking communist propaganda.
28 October 1981
"Your Child Interests Me" - analyzes the ideologies, the stages and the political choices which led to the contemporary and dominant concept of education.
31 October 2007
Stress, harassment, violence, depression and suicide are the themes the media evoke with increasing frequency when it comes to the world of work.
01 January 1998
In 1997, the committed filmmaker Jean Asselmeyer, armed with his camera, posed the following question at the General Assembly of Documentary Film in Lussas and in Paris: Is it possible today to make a committed creative documentary?, to René Vautier, Thierry Garrel, Jean-Michel Carré, Jean-Marie Barbe, Yves Jeanneau, Alexandre Cornu, Lapilli films, Jean-François Raynaud, Samir Abdallah and many others, not the least of whom.
28 November 2007
The Putin System is a documentary chronicling Putin’s rise to power in Russia along with the implications for ordinary Russian people.
23 January 2013
Home to a fifth of the world's population, the newly-minted superpower will soon be the largest economy on earth.
01 May 1976
A César nominated short drama looking at the impact of prison life on an incarcerated nine year old boy.
22 January 1975
First film about the University of Vincennes Paris VIII. After May 68, anyone could come to take classes there, without a baccalaureate or diploma.
07 November 1993
This documentary follows a number of French women prisoners during the time of their imprisonment and after their release.
09 February 2000
In 1994, an economist decision by British Coal to close "Tower Colliery" in Aberdare (South Wales), convinced its miners boasting a generationally long history of political activism, that what they had was worth fighting for.
