Robert Lapoujade

Les Mémoires de Don Quichotte (2019)

An Actor Without Paradox (1974)

An actor, passing from the box to the stage, successively interprets seven different characters. ...

Olivier Messiaen and the Birds (1973)

"A renowned composer and organist, Olivier Messiaen was also a great teacher. Michel Fano, who took his composition class at the Paris Conservatory, films some of the privileged moments of his teaching. This film, co-directed with Denise Tual, also shows M ...

The Vertical Smile (1973)

A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about human history cause him distress. Amid a flurry of newsreel-type images, Joan of Arc's trial is shown. Another ...

Le Socrate (1968)

A modern-day Socrates leaves behind his life as a philosopher to live off the land. When a police inspector is assigned to follow the man and question his motives, the cop gets caught up in the charming philosophy of the man who has left his material posse ...

Vélodrame (1965)

L'annonciation (1963)

Study of the suffocating materialism of modern society as an expression of prima ry retreat to infantilism. ...

Trois portraits d'un oiseau qui n'existe pas (1963)

Prison (1962)

This is about a man in prison. This man remembers his past, unless he invents it. The roughness of the cell wall is his reality, which his imagination breaks up. A broken life, described using materials broken into a thousand crumbs. ...

Les Mémoires de Don Quichotte (2019)