Jean Rollin

The story of French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010), one of the most singular voices of European cult cinema, deeply misunderstood and widely misrepresented.

Who is Jean Rollin? A man who has spent his childhood in the middle of some of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. An artist who has worked with Maguerite Duras for his first film. A director's career singular and unique in French cinema, with films overtly fantastic, surreal, poetic - disconcerting. A filmmaker has always murdered by the critics but starting, finally, to enjoy some recognition in France, while many fans worship him already in Europe and the United States. Jean Rollin signs a marginal and unknown work marked by death and nostalgia, and whose main obsession is the time, that of the wandering and dreams. Jean Rollin died in December 2010 at the age of 72. This documentary is the portrait of a real artist, the last surrealist, a poet who created his very own dreamworld. A tribute for a unique director, with testimonials from his closest collaborators.

The film is a modern-day telling of the Greek mythological tale of the Gorgon and was inspired by the 1964 classic Hammer Horror film of the same name and the 1981 cult classic Clash of the Titans.

A young woman inherits the house of Jean Michel but she is haunted by strange dreams and numbers. She has no idea that this is the beginning of the 'the night of clocks', which opened for those who have sinned, the dead which are not dead...

A young woman inherits the house of Jean Michel but she is haunted by strange dreams and numbers. She has no idea that this is the beginning of the 'the night of clocks', which opened for those who have sinned, the dead which are not dead...

A Van Helsing-like professor and his protegé are tracking Dracula's descendants through the world of "parallels", creatures who are human in form but live quite distinct psychic lives. A circus dwarf who is in love with one of these creatures leads them to a mansion filled with oddly behaving nuns, The Order of the White Virgins. The nuns are detaining a beautiful woman who is the betrothed of the still-extant Dracula. When she escapes, everyone follows her to Dracula's seaside castle, on the way dealing with a baby-eating ogress and a wolf-woman (Brigitte Lahaie in a cameo), witches and madwomen. The bizarre wedding ritual commences.

A pair of teenage girls, who are blind by day, but when the sun goes down, they roam the streets to quench their thirst for blood.

A pair of teenage girls, who are blind by day, but when the sun goes down, they roam the streets to quench their thirst for blood.

A pair of teenage girls, who are blind by day, but when the sun goes down, they roam the streets to quench their thirst for blood.

We see a Rolls-Royce ride into the country, with a young orphan named Eva, accompanied by her uncle and aunt. They go to the man, she just married, but do not know yet. This man, Sir Remy, is a widower, surrounded by guests and staff lives in a castle, in the memory of his former wife, Mathilde, whose perfect doppelganger Eve. He believes still smell Mathilde's perfume in his castle. Mathilde added Remy in the past torments to by all men gave himself who so wished. In order to avenge the memory of his late wife, he leaves the young Eve in a ceremony publicly humiliate. The innocent Eva proves to be a reincarnation of the late Mathilde.

We see a Rolls-Royce ride into the country, with a young orphan named Eva, accompanied by her uncle and aunt. They go to the man, she just married, but do not know yet. This man, Sir Remy, is a widower, surrounded by guests and staff lives in a castle, in the memory of his former wife, Mathilde, whose perfect doppelganger Eve. He believes still smell Mathilde's perfume in his castle. Mathilde added Remy in the past torments to by all men gave himself who so wished. In order to avenge the memory of his late wife, he leaves the young Eve in a ceremony publicly humiliate. The innocent Eva proves to be a reincarnation of the late Mathilde.

Year 2004. Not knowing how to run an abominable criminal recidivist while the death penalty has been abolished, FBI experts and lawyers condemned the imagine embarking on a journey through time To a time when the sentence still applied. For financial reasons, this expedition is coupled with a scientific mission on the planet Terra and charge of tracing the first dinosaurs. They do exist, and while the crew was launched in pursuit of the prisoner at large. Their members must live and face the horror of these blood-thirsty monsters ...!

Two cops try to stop a mysterious serial killer dubbed "Car Woman" after the toy car she always leaves next to her victims in this surreal slasher.

Major Taylor creates a super-soldier who goes rogue due to his insatiable lust for 'girls' and runs amok in the French countryside.

Dr. Herbert East is working in his uncle's clinic and experimenting with brain transplants.

An adventure movie directed by Jess Franco and Jean Rollin.

An adventure movie directed by Jess Franco and Jean Rollin.

A dreamy film in which two women are transported from a beach in France to New York City. Separated and lost, they frantically search for one another.

A dreamy film in which two women are transported from a beach in France to New York City. Separated and lost, they frantically search for one another.

Journey with Emmanuelle and the world's most excuisite models deep into the Amazon jungle to the heart of paradise. Beauty can be dangerous and the women soon find themselves captive to a powerful drug lord. Now they must escape from a land of darkness

Divisional Inspector Bricot sends two detectives to the French Riviera to dismantle a drug deal in a carnival mask factory. However, knowing the low efficiency of his subordinates' work, he goes down to Nice to conduct the investigation.

Adventure, crime and mystery combine with comic book dialogue and some sadistic sex for good measure. Playfully perverse, pistol-packing fun with Yoko and the alluring Francoise Blanchard.

Two gangsters are playing poker. It's a big bet, the nightclub belongs to one of the two. When one of the gangsters finds out he's being cheated on by the other, he cheats on him and says he's hooking up, he gets his hands on the gangsters ' club and starts making it the biggest sex club there is. In the meantime, the other gangster is not sitting still and he wants revenge. A movie gets shot up pretty bad, but not with bullets.

A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.

A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.

Marie and Michelle are escaping from a lunatic asylum. Michelle is a tough girl who knows how to survive on the road, but the extremely shy Marie desperately clings to her.

Marie and Michelle are escaping from a lunatic asylum. Michelle is a tough girl who knows how to survive on the road, but the extremely shy Marie desperately clings to her.

Marie and Michelle are escaping from a lunatic asylum. Michelle is a tough girl who knows how to survive on the road, but the extremely shy Marie desperately clings to her.

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.

A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident.

A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident.

A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.

A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.

A young girl arrives unannounced at his uncle to celebrate her birthday, as he is not free, she holds a very special evening with friends of his uncle.

A young girl arrives unannounced at his uncle to celebrate her birthday, as he is not free, she holds a very special evening with friends of his uncle.

A disco band shows up at a studio to make a new album, but they are badly mobbed by a bunch of female groupies. A big orgy breaks out that postpones the recording session.

A disco band shows up at a studio to make a new album, but they are badly mobbed by a bunch of female groupies. A big orgy breaks out that postpones the recording session.

A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.

A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.

A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.

A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.

Barbara Moose lounges by the pool waiting for the guests to arrive for a party.

Barbara Moose lounges by the pool waiting for the guests to arrive for a party.

An inflexible father does not want his daughter to marry, at least not with the man she has chosen. After he has been blackmailed with lurid photos that are compromising for him, he finally gives his permission. All this ends in an orgy.

Mirna is learning a script when Willy arrives home. Meanwhile, other couples come to search for the manuscript.

Mirna is learning a script when Willy arrives home. Meanwhile, other couples come to search for the manuscript.

Alban has lost the lust for love. A female psychiatrist helps him to find the meaning of life and sex once more.

A group of friends come together to have a party, but in the woods near the castle a kleptomaniac is hiding and waiting to take advance of the partygoers.

Frédéric sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.

Frédéric sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.

Frédéric sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.

Servien and Marbeuf are two crooks who try to get some hired girls to keep a rich prince busy whilst they want to steal his jewels.

An evil count lures beautiful women to his castle, there to imprison them in his torture chamber for his amusement.

An evil count lures beautiful women to his castle, there to imprison them in his torture chamber for his amusement.

An evil count lures beautiful women to his castle, there to imprison them in his torture chamber for his amusement.

A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.

A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.

Valerie watches over her cousin's place while he's away for six months. She spends her first night there reading, playing records, and calling her girlfriend Sophie over. That night, members of a crazed sex cult break in and mistakenly kidnap Sophie. Valerie's cousin, a member of this cult, has some incriminating photos and the leader wants to ruin his life. Valerie and Sophie's friend Fred go to the cult's mansion stronghold to stop all this madness.

Valerie watches over her cousin's place while he's away for six months. She spends her first night there reading, playing records, and calling her girlfriend Sophie over. That night, members of a crazed sex cult break in and mistakenly kidnap Sophie. Valerie's cousin, a member of this cult, has some incriminating photos and the leader wants to ruin his life. Valerie and Sophie's friend Fred go to the cult's mansion stronghold to stop all this madness.

Valerie watches over her cousin's place while he's away for six months. She spends her first night there reading, playing records, and calling her girlfriend Sophie over. That night, members of a crazed sex cult break in and mistakenly kidnap Sophie. Valerie's cousin, a member of this cult, has some incriminating photos and the leader wants to ruin his life. Valerie and Sophie's friend Fred go to the cult's mansion stronghold to stop all this madness.

Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.

A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.

A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.

Two girls on the run get lost in the French countryside, and wind up in a haunted chateau occupied by an ailing vampire and his servants.

Two girls on the run get lost in the French countryside, and wind up in a haunted chateau occupied by an ailing vampire and his servants.

A young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple.

A young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple.

A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire.

A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire.

After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.

After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.

After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.

After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.

A couple is lost in a town where everyone speaks some strange language, and they can't find their way out.

Short film from French director Jean Rollin with poetry by Tristan Corbière's (1845-1875).

Frédéric Charruault, loyal reader of Médusa Fanzine, had produced in 1994, a short documentary on the cinemas of Paris (the Brady, theTrianon, the Paris-cinema) which has just been archived at the Toulouse cinematheque. The opportunity to rediscover the atmosphere of these legendary rooms today.