Jacques Baratier
Director · 1918 – 2009 · Montpellier, France
Jacques Baratier was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films. His film Goha won the Jury Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. His 1962 film La poupée was entered for the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. Goha was also shown as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacques Baratier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie5.3DramaAnna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?
Boxes
2007 · 6 votes
Movie7.4MysteryDramaAn experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness.
Acéphale
1968 · 7 votes
Movie2.8CrimeDramaThe setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.
Movie7.0DramaA young woman gradually locks herself in her fear.
France
1996 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaA fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.
La Décharge
1976 · 4 votes
MovieTV MovieDocumentaryA documentary film in which Fabrice Aragno assembles a range of footage from the archives of Radio Télévision Suisse, the Cinémathèque suisse and Cinéma en tête by Freddy Buache’s partner Marie-Magdeleine Brumagne.
MovieDocumentary30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of Gérard Courant's camera.