Alain Jessua
Nacimiento : 1932-01-16, Paris, France
Muerte : 2017-11-30
Historia
Alain Jessua began his career as assistant to directors like Max Ophüls, Marcel Carne, Yves Allégret and Jacques Becker, before making his unique short film, Léon la lune, which earned him the prestigious Prix Jean-Vigo award in 1957. A few years later, in 1963, his first feature film (which became "cult" among moviegoers) won two prizes in Cannes and also Venice: La Vie à l'envers, with Charles Denner and Jean Yanne in his first movie role. He then went on to direct a series of successful and critically acclaimed feature films, which he produced himself (a rare risk in the French cinema landscape).
Alain Jessua is regularly honored in France and abroad. His short film Léon la lune was screened at the MOMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York a few years ago and Martin Scorsese cited La Vie à l'envers as one of the films that really made an impact on him. Jean Tulard , in his "Dictionary of Cinema", writes: "He proposes a cinema where he tackles the problems of our time and makes cries of alarm. "
Alain Jessua is also the author of six novels.
lui-même
The director Alain Jessua evokes his beginnings, his career and recalls with passion his experience with the greatest filmmakers.
Self
Documentary on Max Ophüls and the making of Madame de...
Self
Interview with Alain Jessua about his work on Max Ophuls' 1953 film THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...
Writer
A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul.
Director
A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul.
Producer
When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's guilt weighs heavily on her as she hopes to never let Thomas know she was unfaithful. She panics and seeks a way to eliminate Paul in this psychological thriller.
Writer
When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's guilt weighs heavily on her as she hopes to never let Thomas know she was unfaithful. She panics and seeks a way to eliminate Paul in this psychological thriller.
Director
When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's guilt weighs heavily on her as she hopes to never let Thomas know she was unfaithful. She panics and seeks a way to eliminate Paul in this psychological thriller.
Producer
Un científico obsesionado construye un ser vivo a base de partes de cadáveres exhumados.
Screenplay
Un científico obsesionado construye un ser vivo a base de partes de cadáveres exhumados.
Director
Un científico obsesionado construye un ser vivo a base de partes de cadáveres exhumados.
Producer
El Doctor Valois ha inventado una cura para la depresión. Después de testearla con monos, la prubea con su primer paciente humano, Alain Durieux
Writer
El Doctor Valois ha inventado una cura para la depresión. Después de testearla con monos, la prubea con su primer paciente humano, Alain Durieux
Director
El Doctor Valois ha inventado una cura para la depresión. Después de testearla con monos, la prubea con su primer paciente humano, Alain Durieux
Writer
Drama sobre la inseguridad. Los vecinos de un barrio intentan defenderse de los delincuentes adiestrando perros para el ataque, tarea de la que se encarga un inquietante personaje. Tras ser violada por un desconocido, Nicole Calfan adopta un perro y le enseña a obedecer sus órdenes de ataque. Victor Lanoux, un médico que acaba de instalarse en el barrio, se opondrá a este sistema de violencia generalizada.
Director
Drama sobre la inseguridad. Los vecinos de un barrio intentan defenderse de los delincuentes adiestrando perros para el ataque, tarea de la que se encarga un inquietante personaje. Tras ser violada por un desconocido, Nicole Calfan adopta un perro y le enseña a obedecer sus órdenes de ataque. Victor Lanoux, un médico que acaba de instalarse en el barrio, se opondrá a este sistema de violencia generalizada.
Writer
After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.
Director
After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.
Music
Hélène Masson es guapa, inteligente y rica gracias a su empresa de ropa femenina. Pero tiene 38 años y se siente cansada por su ritmo de vida y temerosa ante los primeros signos de envejecimiento. Siguiendo el consejo de su mejor amigo, Jérôme, decide acompañarlo al exclusivo Instituto de Talasoterapia de los doctores Devilers y Bernard, situado en un lugar idílico junto al océano. Los ricos clientes del Instituto acuden para beneficiarse del nuevo descubrimiento de los doctores: un preparado a base de células animales capaz de obrar el milagro del rejuvenecimiento. Sin embargo, Hélène empieza a sospechar que algo terrible sucede en el Instituto cuando aparece el cuerpo de Jéròme destrozado entre las rocas y percibe que los trabajadores inmigrantes del centro desaparecen sin dejar rastro.
Author
Hélène Masson es guapa, inteligente y rica gracias a su empresa de ropa femenina. Pero tiene 38 años y se siente cansada por su ritmo de vida y temerosa ante los primeros signos de envejecimiento. Siguiendo el consejo de su mejor amigo, Jérôme, decide acompañarlo al exclusivo Instituto de Talasoterapia de los doctores Devilers y Bernard, situado en un lugar idílico junto al océano. Los ricos clientes del Instituto acuden para beneficiarse del nuevo descubrimiento de los doctores: un preparado a base de células animales capaz de obrar el milagro del rejuvenecimiento. Sin embargo, Hélène empieza a sospechar que algo terrible sucede en el Instituto cuando aparece el cuerpo de Jéròme destrozado entre las rocas y percibe que los trabajadores inmigrantes del centro desaparecen sin dejar rastro.
Director
Hélène Masson es guapa, inteligente y rica gracias a su empresa de ropa femenina. Pero tiene 38 años y se siente cansada por su ritmo de vida y temerosa ante los primeros signos de envejecimiento. Siguiendo el consejo de su mejor amigo, Jérôme, decide acompañarlo al exclusivo Instituto de Talasoterapia de los doctores Devilers y Bernard, situado en un lugar idílico junto al océano. Los ricos clientes del Instituto acuden para beneficiarse del nuevo descubrimiento de los doctores: un preparado a base de células animales capaz de obrar el milagro del rejuvenecimiento. Sin embargo, Hélène empieza a sospechar que algo terrible sucede en el Instituto cuando aparece el cuerpo de Jéròme destrozado entre las rocas y percibe que los trabajadores inmigrantes del centro desaparecen sin dejar rastro.
Writer
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.
Director
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.
Author
A Paris real estate developer who feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By conventional standards, maybe, but it's clear that the life he's fleeing is madder still from his point of view, and since that point of view is unfailingly witty and astute, we even come to accept his delusions as more "real" than reality.
Director
A Paris real estate developer who feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By conventional standards, maybe, but it's clear that the life he's fleeing is madder still from his point of view, and since that point of view is unfailingly witty and astute, we even come to accept his delusions as more "real" than reality.
Assistant Director
Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her.
Director
The film documents an old drifter in Paris in the poetic realist style
Assistant Director Trainee
Lola Montes (Martine Carol), cortesana y bailarina famosa en toda Europa, fue la amante de grandes hombres como el músico húngaro Franz Liszt o Luis II de Baviera. Ya en el ocaso de su carrera, trabajó en un circo de Nueva Orleáns (Luisiana), donde realizaba un número acrobático mientras un maestro de ceremonias (Peter Ustinov) narraba al público su escandalosa vida.
Assistant Director
Urgida por la necesidad de dinero para cubrir sus cuantiosos gastos, una condesa vende unos pendientes que le regaló su marido, y a éste le dice que los ha extraviado. El joyero, indiscreto, le cuenta al conde lo sucedido, y le vende la joya que, tras distintos avatares, llegan a manos de un diplomático italiano.
Assistant Director
París, 1900. Marie, una bella prostituta, es la amante de uno de los hombres de la banda de Felix; pero, sorprendentemente, acabará encontrando el verdadero amor en un sencillo carpintero. Su amante, celoso, lo provoca, y ambos se enzarzan en una terrible pelea.
