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Jean-Pierre Mocky

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Director · 1929 – 2019 · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, including some of those he also directed (Solo, L'albatros, L'Ombre d'une chance, Un Linceul n'a pas de poches). His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. He began as an actor in the cinema and theater. In particular, he played in Jean Dréville's Les Casse-pieds (1948), Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Bernard Borderie's The Mask of the Gorilla (1957). But it was especially in Italy that he became famous, thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni. After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso (1954) and Federico Fellini on La strada (1954), he wrote his first film, La Tête contre les murs (1959) and planned to direct it himself, but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju. He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs (1959). Since then, he has never stopped shooting. As early as the 1960s, he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner (1963) and La Grande Lessive (1968). After May 1968, he turned to darker films with Solo (1969), in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left, then L'Albatros (1971) which shows the corruption of politicians. In the 1980s, he returned to success with a film denouncing, a year before the drama of Heysel, the excesses of some football fans (À mort l'arbitre, 1984) and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes (Le Miraculé, 1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, his films met with less success, but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm. In the beginning, his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society. Later, he concentrated on farce, as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex (Michel Serrault) pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline (Claude Jade) in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives. Mocky's cinema, often satirical and pamphleteer, is generally inspired by the truth of society. He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly. He worked with Bourvil (A Funny Parishioner, The City of Unspeakable Fear, La Grande Lessive and The Stallion), Fernandel (The Exchange and Life), Michel Simon (The Red Ibis), Michel Serrault (twelve films including Le Miraculé), Francis Blanche (five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear), Jacqueline Maillan (five films), Jean Poiret (eight films) and with the stars Catherine Deneuve (Agent Trouble), Claude Jade (Bonsoir), Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir), Jeanne Moreau (Le Miraculé) and Stéphane Audran (The Seasons of Pleasure). In 2010, he received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him. He died on 8 August 2019. Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Mocky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies23

  • Movie7.6

    Orphée

    Orpheus

    1950 · 308 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Prénom Carmen

    First Name: Carmen

    1983 · 116 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    1954 · 80 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Le Redoutable

    Godard Mon Amour

    2017 · 375 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Ville à vendre

    1992 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.0
  • Movie6.1

    Le Gorille vous salue bien

    The Mask of the Gorilla

    1958 · 33 votes

  • Movie7.2

    L'Albatros

    The Albatross

    1971 · 16 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Agent trouble

    1987 · 28 votes

  • Movie5.5

    À mort l'arbitre !

    Kill the Referee

    1984 · 52 votes

  • Movie2.0

    Morceaux de Cannes

    2021 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Senso

    1954 · 256 votes

  • Movie6.8

    La Tête contre les murs

    Head Against the Wall

    1959 · 41 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie4.9

    La Machine à découdre

    The Unsewing Machine

    1986 · 8 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Calomnies

    2014 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Le Regard de Charles

    Aznavour by Charles

    2019 · 16 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Americano

    2011 · 38 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Le rouge est mis

    Speaking of Murder

    1957 · 52 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Le glandeur

    2000 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Un linceul n'a pas de poches

    No Pockets in a Shroud

    1974 · 25 votes

  • Movie7.2
  • Movie5.0

    Vénéneuses

    2017 · 4 votes

Series17

  • TV4.5

    L'Invité

    2002 · 2 votes

  • TV5.7

    Sacrée soirée

    1987 · 5 votes

  • TV3.6

    Vivement dimanche

    1998 · 9 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV9.5

    Spécial cinéma

    1974 · 2 votes

  • TV6.1

    C à vous

    2009 · 4 votes

  • TV8.0

    Le Grand Échiquier

    1972 · 3 votes

  • TV6.0

    Zone interdite

    1993 · 3 votes

  • TV6.0

    Samedi soir

    1971 · 1 votes

  • TV5.3

    Strip-Tease

    1985 · 6 votes

  • TV6.1

    Nulle part ailleurs

    1987 · 8 votes

  • TV5.1

    On n'est pas couché

    2006 · 5 votes

  • TV
  • TV10.0

    Open Bar

    2014 · 1 votes

  • TV7.0

    Série noire

    1984 · 1 votes

  • TV
  • TV10.0

    Quarks

    2013 · 1 votes