Jean Teulé

Jean Teulé

Birth : 1953-02-26, Saint-Lô, Manche, France

History

Jean Teulé (born 26 February 1953 in Saint-Lô, Manche), is a French novelist, cartoonist and screenwriter. He is the partner of the actress Miou-Miou. Jean’s book Le magasin des suicides (The Suicide Shop), published in 2007, has been turned into a film called The Suicide Shop. It screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival in Newport Beach, CA, in 2013.

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Jean Teulé
Jean Teulé

Movies

The Poisoning Angel
Novel
In 1800, Brittany is on its knees, overwhelmed by the regime in place and by the omnipotent clergy. It founders in an economic slump without end in sight and, in the middle of all this, a young, suffering girl pushes back as best she can. She is known as the "Poisoning Angel," an isolated child, mistreated by life and rocked by morbid thoughts. She will become one of the world's most notorious serial killers and will sow death, perhaps merely to be looked at and loved.
Arrest Me
Novel
One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband several years ago. As she listens to her fantastic story, the policewoman is increasingly less inclined to arrest her. Just why is the woman so eager to confess her crime, and why is the policewoman so reluctant to take her into custody?
The Suicide Shop
Novel
In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.
L'Artifice et le factice
Self
"L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks.
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Novel
Separated at the birth of his mother who has only time to entrust to a member of his family, Guillaume de Villon, when he should have been killed, François will as well go to the ill-known taverns of the Latin Quarter that the Court of the Duke of Orleans, passing by the benches of the university. This marvelous poet at the same time as a scoundrel of morality will have a life where fights, robberies, imprisonments and final banishment will be linked. Leaving Paris, Villon will disappear.
Darling
Darling is a woman of today. It seems to always choose the wrong path. Suffers but does not look like a victim. Do not feel sorry for herself. On the contrary, shows a passion for life against all odds. She is struggling to exist. If you fall, get up. Because Darling is naive and fearless, brave and instinctive. Has the life force of a tragic heroine.
Darling
Novel
Darling is a woman of today. It seems to always choose the wrong path. Suffers but does not look like a victim. Do not feel sorry for herself. On the contrary, shows a passion for life against all odds. She is struggling to exist. If you fall, get up. Because Darling is naive and fearless, brave and instinctive. Has the life force of a tragic heroine.
Caché
TV Guest
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
Rainbow pour Rimbaud
Director
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a leading light in the symbolist movement of French literature, which rejected the use of realism in the depiction of emotions and ideas. In this film, Robert is an eccentric, oversized young man who puzzles and infuriates his parents by locking himself into a closet for long periods of time; at the same time, he loudly recites poetry by Arthur Rimbaud. Kicked out of the house by his exasperated parents, he decides to make a pilgrimage of the exotic African sites Rimbaud haunted in his final years. He meets and then travels with Isabelle, who is attempting to escape from a rejected suitor's unwanted attentions. In addition to that problem, she has another, more curious problem. It seems she is turning into a hawthorn bush.
The Marquis
Novel
Inspired by Jean Teulé’s novel "Le Montespan", the film depicts the ill-fated passion between the Marquis de Montespan and his wife Athénaïs, a beautiful and ambitious woman who became the mistress of Louis XIV. The marquis dismissed the prestige associated with one’s wife being a lover to the monarch and tried at all costs to reclaim her.