Jean-Claude Biette

Saltimbank (2003)

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, ...

Salò: Yesterday and Today (2002)

A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli. ...

The Adolescent (2001)

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky's novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature. ...

Le Dieu Mozart II (1998)

Mange ta soupe (1997)

A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him. ...

Oncle Vania (1997)

Elegantly and carefully, Léon trains his sights both on Chekhov's famous play written in 1896 and on its earlier, lesser known version entitled "The Wood Demon" (1889), combining the two. ...

A Tale of Winter (1992)

Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male c ...

Deux dames sérieuses (1988)

Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield suddenly decide to abandon their suffocating universe. They embark on a trip around the world in search of an impossible sanctity. ...

Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976)

The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and ...

The Musician Killer (1976)

A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with it. ...

India Song (1975)

Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life. ...

The Garden That Tilts (1975)

Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approaches her but fails to kill her. Instead, he falls in love and becomes her lover ... ...

The Adventures of Sylvia Couski (1975)

The ex-wife of a famous sculptor convinces her lover to remove one of his sculptures from an exhibition and replace it with a live model. ...

Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)

Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama. ...

The Mother and the Whore (1973)

Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stake ...

Le Château de Pointilly (1972)

A young woman escapes her father's house and goes to live in the city. There, she realises her father may still be controlling her life through the people she meets. ...

Othon (1971)

Straub-Huillet's first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus's Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast pe ...

Suzanne’s Career (1963)

In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohme ...

Saltimbank (2003)

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, ...

Three Bridges on the River (1999)

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Having ju ...

The Complex of Toulon (1996)

It is due to some professional obligations that brothers Charles and Fredi turn their attention to theater. Charles, an actor does not want Fredi to write a book on him. ...

Open Season (1993)

A "three people relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre. ...

The Carpathian Mushroom (1990)

A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an actress. ...

Archipelago of Love (1983)

Nine short films about love. ...

Pornoscopie (1983)

The tribulations of a bisexual who's a bit of an exhibitionist. ...

Far from Manhattan (1982)

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery. ...

The Theatre of the Matters (1977)

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs. ...

La Sœur du cadre (1973)

The sister of a manager who finds work for the unemployed, instructs her brother's employee to find unemployed people. ...

Le Château de Pointilly (1972)

A young woman escapes her father's house and goes to live in the city. There, she realises her father may still be controlling her life through the people she meets. ...

Ce que cherche Jacques (1970)

A moral adventure: one sees friendships being born and being discarded, under the pressure of avowed authorities such as the family and the prejudices it states, or unavowed as the economy that no individual alone expresses. ...

La Partenza (1968)

A street strewn with papers. The legs of passers-by. A young man crosses the street. Then we find him in the middle of a discussion with a friend. "Are you still determined to leave? – Yes, I'm leaving today at five o'clock by plane. ...

Oedipus Rex (1967)

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Que ...

Here I Read (1966)

A boy just out of college is bored, walks around around and meet people. ...