Daniel Pommereulle

Born: 1937-04-15

Daniel Pommereulle passed away in December 2003, leaving a very diverse and complexe but also peculiar and premonitory work. According to Alain Jouffroy's phrase, he was associated to the "Objectors" (les "Objecteurs"). Despite some important exhibitions (Fin de siècle presented in 1975 at National Center for Contemporary Art - Georges Pompidou, or the retrospective exhibitions at the Dole and Belfort museums in 1991) and a growing aura, this work, certainly one of the most importants of the second half of the 20th century in France, remains unknown and secret. From the 1980's to the 1990's he concentrates on the transparency theme with layouts of glass, paper and steel. As an actor, he started with Eric Rohmer's La Collectionneuse in 1967 and played in a dozen of movies, among which François Truffau's La mariée était en noir ( The Bride Wore Black), Jean-Luc Godard's Week-End and Les Idoles by Marc'O are noteworthy. In 1972, he takes part in La Cicatrice Intérieure (The Inner Scar) by Philippe Garrel whom he'll join again 27 years later for Le Vent de la nuit(Night Wind).As a film director One More Time (1967) and Vite(Fast, 1969) are the most noticeable movies for which he successively created a suicide machine and shot sequences through a telephoto lens or a telescope, leading to an apology of the desert and the planet Saturn.


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La Collectionneuse

as Daniel
Released: 1967-03-02

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on...

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The Bride Wore Black

as Fergus's Friend
Released: 1968-03-22

Julie Kohler, whose husband was inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding,...

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Weekend

as Joseph Balsamo (uncredited)
Released: 1967-12-29

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of...

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The Pacifist

as uncredited
Released: 1970-12-30

Barbara is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an...

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The Inner Scar

as Sheperd
Released: 1972-02-02

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

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Nearest to Heaven

as L'éditeur
Released: 2002-11-20

People and life can be cruel, and in their face, Fannette is cool: toward an old acquaintance,...

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The Idols

as uncredited
Released: 1968-06-14

This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A...

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Vite

as uncredited
Released: 1969-12-31

In 1969, the painter-sculptor Daniel Pommereulle made his third film, this one financed by...

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The Wind of the Night

as Jean le sculpteur
Released: 1999-03-03

A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation....

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