Jean-Damien Barbin

Molière's Last Stage (2024)

Royal Palace Theatre, Paris . February 17th 1673, the King's theatre group is playing « Le Malade Imaginaire » when Moliere started spitting blood, but he takes the decision to keep playing until the end. During his agony, he let enter in the theatre a ...

Bajazet - Considering the Theatre and the Plague (2019)

Frank Castorf has adapted Racine and combined this material with texts by Artaud. His art of theatrical and vital immoderation explores how, when it comes to this classical French author, the tragedy of existence is born from collusions between private pas ...

Through the Mill (2018)

Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true eve ...

Orlando ou l'impatience (2016)

A staging of Olivier Py's play "Orlando ou l'impatience" by himself. ...

Le Grand Retournement (2013)

Du cristal à la fumée (2010)

A staging of Jacques Attali's play "From Crystal to Smoke" by Daniel Mesguich. ...

A Day at the Museum (2008)

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des pro ...

The Third Part of the World (2008)

Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears on ...

Musée haut, musée bas (2005)

A staging of Jean-Michel Ribes' play "Musée haut, musée bas" by himself. ...

Closed Eyes (2000)

Vincent and Olivier have an intense, rocky relationship: Vincent evades tenderness, just as he does desire, forcing the couple to hunt for a third partner to participate in their sexual games. Olivier has a background in the theater. He believes in, but is ...

The Elegant Criminal (1990)

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more ...

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy. ...