Daniel Pommereulle
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.
The Bride Wore Black
as Fergus's FriendJulie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down,...
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as Joseph Balsamo (uncredited)A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of...
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as DanielA bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on...
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as N°2023Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the...
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as SheperdA composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
Movie pageThe Pacifist
as uncreditedA journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears...
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as L'éditeurPeople and life can be cruel, and in their face, Fannette is cool: toward an old acquaintance,...
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as Jean le sculpteurA wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation....
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as uncreditedThis satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A...
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as uncreditedIn 1969, the painter-sculptor Daniel Pommereulle made his third film, this one financed by...
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