Jacques Baratier

Eden miseria

Jacques Baratier

Patrick Vian

René Clair

Jacques Baratier

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jacques Baratier, originally aired 3 November 1969.

Eves futures

Jacques Baratier

Paris la nuit

Jacques Baratier, Jean Valère

Le désordre a vingt ans

Jacques Baratier

Orson Welles

Rien, voilà l'ordre

Jacques Baratier

Amira Casar, Laurent Terzieff

In the psychiatric clinic Rhien, residents and caregivers maintain unique and funny relationships.

La Ville-bidon

Jacques Baratier

Bernadette Lafont, Daniel Duval

A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.

Acéphale

Patrick Deval

Jacques Baratier, Michael Chapman

An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness.

Goha

Jacques Baratier

Omar Sharif, Zina Bouzaiade

As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes an unexpectedly dramatic turn when the man falls in love with the young wife of his village's elderly "wise man". Based on an ancient Tunisian folk tale, Goha boasts impressive production values and sure-handed direction (by Jacques Baratier).

Dragées au poivre

Jacques Baratier

Jean Babilée, Guy Bedos

Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.

Piège

Jacques Baratier

Bernadette Lafont, Bulle Ogier

A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.

L'or du Duc

Jacques Baratier

Claude Rich, Pierre Brasseur

A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.

Désordre

Jacques Baratier

Juliette Gréco, Simone de Beauvoir

Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.

La poupée

Jacques Baratier

Zbigniew Cybulski, Sonne Teal

An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.

Vous intéressez-vous à la chose?

Jacques Baratier

Nathalie Delon, Muriel Catalá

It's summer in the south of France. A family decides to organize a big fest. There is Bernard, a doctor, and his sister Lise, a libertine architect, also teens Patrick and his brother Julien, both attracted to 15 year old Dina

Boxes

Jane Birkin

Geraldine Chaplin, Michel Piccoli

Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?