Jean-Pierre Lajournade
Director · 1937 – 1976 · Pau, France
After studying at IDHEC from 1959 to 1961, he worked for television from 1962 to 1968. He was co-producer and director of the program Lire: he signed fifteen documentaries and four TV movies. In 1967 he filmed his first short film, Assommons les pauvres, with stolen film. He left the ORTF after the strike movement of May 1968. He then devoted himself to the realization of his experimental feature film (Le Joueur de quilles), produced by Jean-Edern Hallier, and three short films produced by Pierre Braunberger. He collaborated in the journal Cinéthique from 1975.
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MovieA tragic spin on the futility of revolution, in cinema and elsewhere.
Cinéma-Cinéma
1969
- MovieDrama
French short adaptation of Herman Melville's classic. The employee of a lawyer is in a mental hospital following a scandal. Some time later, he finds his employer.
Bartleby
1970
- Movie8.0Drama
Thomas is a young man who rebels against society after witnessing his father's suicide. He embarks on a marginal and increasingly violent existence with Malvina, a woman he meets, as they attempt to escape societal pressures. Their journey ultimately leads to their internment in a mental asylum, a bleak outcome reflecting their futile struggle for individual freedom.
La Fin des Pyrénées
1970 · 1 votes
MovieA radical film that is at once a scathing questioning of cinema, a fierce attack against ideological sclerosis, an obvious model of total science fiction.