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Jean-Daniel Pollet
(
French:
[p?l?]
; 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
.
Career
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Pollet was born on 20 June 1936 in
La Madeleine, Nord
, in France. His film career started in 1958, when he did a short film set in Paris called
Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse
..., in which Pollet filmed the movements of dancers' silhouettes. Pollet built on the images and themes from this first film in many of his later works, by incorporating elements of popular comedies imbued with both
burlesque
and melancholic elements. In the early 1960s, Pollet began exploring another approach to filmmaking with the film
Mediterranee
, which he made over two years with
Volker Schlondorff
. Pollet tried to create a form of poetic film, using texts and commentaries by writers such as
Philippe Sollers
,
Jean Thibeaudeau
, and
Francis Ponge
.
In the 1990s, he was paralyzed after a train accident, and so he filmed his last movies in the areas around his house in the French town of
Cadenet
. In 2004, when Pollet realized that his death was approaching, he wrote his last screenplay,
Jour apres jour
, which was finished by
Jean-Paul Fargier
. Pollet died at the age of 68 on 9 September 2004 at Cadenet,
Vaucluse
, in France.
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Filmography
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- 1958:
Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse...
- 1960:
Line of Sight
- 1961:
Gala
- 1963:
Mediterranee
- 1964:
Bassae
- 1965:
Une balle au cœur
- 1965:
Paris vu par...
(segment Rue Saint-Denis)
- 1966:
Les Morutiers
- 1966:
Le Horla
- 1967:
Tu imagines Robinson
- 1970:
Le Maitre du temps
- 1971:
Le Sang
- 1971:
L'Amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste
- 1973:
L'Ordre
- 1976:
L'Acrobate
- 1978:
Pour memoire (La forge)
- 1986:
Au Pere Lachaise
- 1988:
Contretemps
- 1991:
Trois jours en Grece
- 1994:
Dieu sait quoi
- 2001:
Ceux d'en face
- 2006:
Jour apres jour
, termine par Jean-Paul Fargier
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