Jean-Daniel Pollet
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... Read full bio →
Dieu sait quoi
A homage to journalist Francis Ponge in a film that its author regarded as “natural.”
Le sang
An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future.
Le Horla
A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.
Paris vu par...
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and...
Méditerranée
[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’).
La ligne de mire
After many years, Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, where he lived with his uncle.
Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse...
A study of loneliness set in a dance hall of suburban Paris.