Pierre Clémenti

Pierre Clémenti

Born: September 28, 1942
Died: December 27, 1999
in Paris, France
Pierre Clémenti (28 September 1942 – 27 December 1999) was a French actor.

Born in Paris, Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in 1960 in Yves Allégret's Chien de pique performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Arguably, his most famous role was that of gangster lover of bourgeois prostitute Catherine Deneuve in Belle de jour, the 1967 classic by Luis Buñuel, in whose film La voie lactée he played the Devil. He appeared in several highly regarded films of the period, working with many of Europe's best known directors, including Luchino Visconti (The Leopard), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pigsty) and Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist and Partner). Other directors he has worked with are Liliana Cavani, Glauber Rocha, Miklós Jancsó and Philippe Garrel.

In 1972, his career was derailed after he was sentenced to prison for allegedly possessing or using drugs. Due to insufficient evidence, Clémenti was released after 17 months; later he penned a book about his time in prison. After his release he played the role of ever-optimistic sailor of the Potemkin in Dusan Makavejev's scandalous movie Sweet movie, and the role of the seductive saxophone player Pablo in Fred Haines's film adaptation of Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf. Throughout his career, he continued to be active on-stage.

He was also involved with the French underground film movement, directing several of his own films, which often featured fellow underground filmmakers and actors. Visa de censure no X was an experimental work made up of two of films. New Old was a feature length work released in 1978 in which Viva appeared. La Revolution ce ne'est qu'un debut, continuons le combat, followed by In the shadow of the blue rascal and Sun. He died of liver cancer in 1999

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Movies for Pierre Clémenti...

Les Jours et les Nuits
Title: Les Jours et les Nuits
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: Movie
I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin.
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Souvenirs souvenirs
Title: Souvenirs souvenirs
Character: Self
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.
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Positano
Title: Positano
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground community. Pierre Clémenti stays there for a while and makes images of dazzling sensuality. Beyond Pierre Clémenti's intimate love of these faces and bodies often naked in this Mediterranean landscape, the film reveals the moving beauty of a utopia where living together could still be achieved in a territory of sharing and permanent creation. Flow of perceptions of consciousness, visual impressions, physical impregnations, the work of Pierre Clémenti is an ode to sensuality and "life-cinema".
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La deuxième femme
Title: La deuxième femme
Character: Self
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith (not always recognisable)... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.
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Hideous Kinky
Title: Hideous Kinky
Character: Santoni
Released: November 17, 1998
Type: Movie
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
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The Hips of J.W.
Title: The Hips of J.W.
Character: Paul, Henrique
Released: October 29, 1997
Type: Movie
Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.
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Attendre le navire
Title: Attendre le navire
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The journey on the edge of an ocean of a poet, two terrorists, a film-maker, a reporter and two lovers, in search of a ship leaving for Nowhere. A ship like hope for all those who wait: the misguided, the misaligned, the displaced, the exiles that we are at certain times, that we are one day or another, a little earlier, a little later.
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Massacres
Title: Massacres
Character: Verdier
Released: March 27, 1991
Type: Movie
A European man sets up a business in Korea to deal in snuff films. The police quickly catch on to his dealings and attempt to hunt him down.
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The Austrian
Title: The Austrian
Character: Hébert
Released: September 19, 1990
Type: Movie
A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days.
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Hard to Be a God
Title: Hard to Be a God
Character: King
Released: January 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
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Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming
Title: Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god."
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1990
Type: Movie
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The Silent Woman
Title: The Silent Woman
Character: Bel-il
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.
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The Sun
Title: The Sun
Released: December 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.
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In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
Title: In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang and the government hides the dead. An experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema.
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Forty-four, or Bedtime Stories
Title: Forty-four, or Bedtime Stories
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Directed by Moumen Smihi.
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Title: Patrik Pacard
Character: Prinz Ali
Released: December 25, 1984
Type: TV
Patrik Pacard was the sixth ZDF-Weihnachtsserie, and aired in 1984. The series was broadcast in Germany on ZDF, and consisted of 6 episodes. Broadcasting in Germany began on December 25, 1984. The series was also broadcast in Switzerland, and constisted of 12 episodes. Broadcasting in Switzerland began on December 4, 1984. An English-language version of this series was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 1992, and repeated in 1995, though with a revised plot to reflect the end of the Cold War. A French-language version of this series was broadcast as well. The shows titular character and theme song are incorporated in an internet meme on YTMND in relation to an alter-ego of Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard.
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Clash
Title: Clash
Character: Le jeune homme
Released: February 8, 1984
Type: Movie
A woman revisits long-suppressed nightmares as she is being chased through an abandoned warehouse by a strange man.
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Dog Day
Title: Dog Day
Character: Snake
Released: January 10, 1984
Type: Movie
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.
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Le Chant de Noël
Title: Le Chant de Noël
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways.
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Rapt ou la Separation des races
Title: Rapt ou la Separation des races
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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Doctor Lerne, Subgod
Title: Doctor Lerne, Subgod
Character: Nicolas
Released: December 28, 1983
Type: Movie
A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ...
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Edith's Diary
Title: Edith's Diary
Released: September 1, 1983
Type: Movie
When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording details of an imaginary, much more successful life where she has friends and grandchildren. However, this diversion soon grows unhealthy when she becomes slowly convinced that the fantasies are real.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Vic
Released: April 22, 1983
Type: Movie
Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...
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Brückenschläge
Title: Brückenschläge
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Deuil en 24 heures
Character: Moustiers
Released: October 9, 1982
Type: TV
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La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur
Title: La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur
Character: Gérard Lechômeur
Released: April 24, 1982
Type: Movie
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Le Pont du Nord
Title: Le Pont du Nord
Character: Julien
Released: March 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotted with mysterious traps, puzzling clues, and chance encounters. Maybe they are bricks in some sinister scheme, maybe they are playing a board game, maybe it's a fairy tale, maybe it's yet something else...
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Chassé-croisé
Title: Chassé-croisé
Character: Docteur Moreau
Released: March 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.
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L'amour des femmes
Title: L'amour des femmes
Character: Philippe
Released: February 13, 1982
Type: Movie
Although there are women in the lives of the three main protagonists -- a middle-aged architect, his construction designer, and a journalist -- the women are not as crucial to the men's search for an identity as the title might suggest. When the three men run into a former professor of the architect and designer, they are inspired by his fanfare and expansive nature. Still in search of solutions to their particular problems, the men head out to visit the professor and get to the bottom of their own issues. Unfortunately, the professor turns out to be more "loco" than otherwise, and the three men watch their hopes burst like a popped balloon -- it seems like their ability to assess human character should now be added to their list of problem spots.
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: Theo
Released: October 25, 1981
Type: Movie
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
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The Brunette and Me
Title: The Brunette and Me
Character: Xavier de Royan
Released: April 29, 1981
Type: Movie
A rich business man falls for a young girl and vows to fulfill her dream of becoming a punk rock star.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Title: The Fall of the House of Usher
Character: Allan
Released: April 12, 1981
Type: Movie
After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic.
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Paris s'en va
Title: Paris s'en va
Released: January 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical team on both films. Henry Chapier who produced the short: "At the beginning of the '80s nobody was interested in Rivette's highly imaginative project Le Pont du Nord. Therefore Rivette came up with a kind of 'transposition' of the themes of Le Pont du Nord in the shape of Paris s'en va. Just like a painter in the Renaissance who does a sketch for a future project."
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Nightmare
Title: Nightmare
Character: Victor
Released: December 24, 1980
Type: Movie
A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her trail and eventually tracks her down to the bar she had visited. As the dragnet around her closes in, it becomes apparent that the young woman's stepmother is behind the effort to locate her. But questions over why she is hiding out and what she is hiding from begin to take on more importance as the history of the young woman starts to surface.
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Stridura
Title: Stridura
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
In a desolated world, a martyr is steered by a man giving orders from a control room. His henchmen torture the resistance fighter. Are the parts played by victim and hangman defined as clearly as it seems? Ange Leccia offers a political reflection about the power of images and their manipulative force. —ubu.com
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New Old
Title: New Old
Released: November 21, 1979
Type: Movie
"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, sets, and drugs, an accelerated world tour through various iterations of the counterculture.
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Zoo zéro
Title: Zoo zéro
Character: Ivo, le bégue
Released: May 9, 1979
Type: Movie
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart.
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The Song of Roland
Title: The Song of Roland
Character: Olivier / Le clerc
Released: October 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks out in favor of more just treatment for the downtrodden.
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Little Lips
Title: Little Lips
Character: Paul
Released: February 8, 1978
Type: Movie
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.
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The Son of Amir Is Dead
Title: The Son of Amir Is Dead
Character: Pierre
Released: October 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Pierre, a young man of Brussels, has lost his job. Unbeknowst to Barbara, the woman he lives with, he has become a pickpocket to survive. He works in partnership with a young Tunisian immigrant he meets every Sunday in an abandoned bus where they share the loot of the week. One day, Pierre finds his accomplice dead in their hiding place. Pierre suddenly realizes that he does not know much about his dead friend. Taking possession of his identity papers, Pierre decides to go to Tunisia to find out who his friend actually was.
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The Sorceror's Apprentice
Title: The Sorceror's Apprentice
Character: Saint-Just
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one
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Autoportrait d’un schizophrène
Title: Autoportrait d’un schizophrène
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A document of the mental universe of a schizophrenic. Starring Pierre Clémenti.
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L'Affiche rouge
Title: L'Affiche rouge
Character: Marcel Rayman
Released: November 10, 1976
Type: Movie
A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.
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Visa de censure n° X
Title: Visa de censure n° X
Released: July 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded, and disorienting cinema. Like an acid-soaked freefall, Visa de censure n° X is a rush of nudity and color from one of France’s most seductively watchable actors, set to an album's worth of psychedelic prog rock (performed by the Delired Cameleon Family, a group featuring members of French band Clearlight).
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Steppenwolf
Title: Steppenwolf
Character: Pablo
Released: December 18, 1974
Type: Movie
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
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Sweet Movie
Title: Sweet Movie
Character: Potemkin Sailor
Released: June 12, 1974
Type: Movie
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
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The Irony of Chance
Title: The Irony of Chance
Character: Antoine Desvrières
Released: April 30, 1974
Type: Movie
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De quoi s'agit-il?
Title: De quoi s'agit-il?
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Crush Proof
Title: Crush Proof
Released: June 4, 1972
Type: Movie
A young man recalls his affair with a young French woman who traveled with him across the United States. They began to drift apart during the trip, and eventually each had affairs with other people before realizing that their relationship had run its course.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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The Inner Scar
Title: The Inner Scar
Character: Horseman / Archer
Released: February 2, 1972
Type: Movie
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
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The Designated Victim
Title: The Designated Victim
Character: Count Mateo Tiepolo
Released: April 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Stefano Argenti, an ambitious advertising executive, meets a curious hippie named Count Mateo Tiepolo and they form a strange bond. Having gained Stefano's confidence, Tiepolo reveals that he wants to kill his domineering brother. He suggests that Stefano carry out the killing and in exchange he offers to murder Luisa, Stefano's wife who is a barrier to his career and his affair with Fabienne, a model. Argenti is more curious than shocked but decides to reject the bizarre offer. However, a short-time later, his wife is strangled to death by an intruder and he becomes the prime suspect. By withholding evidence that could prove his innocence. Mateo blackmails Stefano into keeping his part of the bargain. But there is a twist ...
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La famille
Title: La famille
Released: March 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A film by Yvan Lagrange.
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Jupiter
Title: Jupiter
Released: March 5, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Pacifist
Title: The Pacifist
Character: Michele
Released: December 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Barbara is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Clémenti's louche all-around dropout.
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Ninì Tirabusciò:  The Woman Who Invented the Move
Title: Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
Character: Il poeta futuristico
Released: December 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing.
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Necropolis
Title: Necropolis
Character: Attila
Released: October 31, 1970
Type: Movie
A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision of Italian director Franco Brocani. Pierre Clémenti is Attila the Hun, naked and on horseback, while Warhol superstar Viva is a drunken and abusive Countess Bathory. A pop pastiche for the psychedelic generation, Necropolis features a soundtrack by Gavin Bryars.
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Cutting Heads
Title: Cutting Heads
Character: Shepherd
Released: October 16, 1970
Type: Movie
In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is well aware of the menace his old victims represent, while a miracle-making shepherd fascinates and frightens him. Diaz finds a countrywoman, symbol of purity, and prepares a ceremony in his castle resembling his own funeral. - IMDb
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The Conformist
Title: The Conformist
Character: Pasqualino 'Lino' Semirama
Released: July 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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The Year of the Cannibals
Title: The Year of the Cannibals
Character: Tiresia
Released: April 25, 1970
Type: Movie
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.
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Renaissance
Title: Renaissance
Released: April 21, 1970
Type: Movie
A year and a half after "Le Lit e la vierge", Zouzou and Pierre Clémenti are in another bed, this time in front of a window, with Sacré-Coeur in the background. Filmed in two days, in July 1970, with a stolen film from the ORTF, this film, a tribute to these two vedettes of the French underground, is of immense beauty. The title is inspired by the silhouette of Pierre Clémenti, evocative, for Lagrange, of the male physicist during the Renaissance. Grandson of Léo Lagrange and nephew of the chief operator Ghislain Cloquet, Yvan Lagrange is two years younger than Philippe Garrel. "Renaissance", his first film, shows to what extent his generation was influenced by Garrel.
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Pigsty
Title: Pigsty
Character: Cannibale
Released: September 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.
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The Virgin's Bed
Title: The Virgin's Bed
Character: Jesus
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city...
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: Angel of Death
Released: February 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
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His Day of Glory
Title: His Day of Glory
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A Brechtian thriller about an intellectual's transformation into a street-fighting man. Features a prologue featuring unused footage from Bertolucci's Partner, contributed by Pierre Clementi.
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Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'
Title: Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1968
Type: Movie
An experimental and poetic portrait of a woman.
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Book of Saints of Eternal Rome
Title: Book of Saints of Eternal Rome
Released: December 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A (temporary) leave of many friends who are my truest world, with the attempt of getting them together in an ideal summary conceived to support me during my being far away. –A. L.
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Partner
Title: Partner
Character: Giacobbe I and II
Released: October 25, 1968
Type: Movie
The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
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Listen, Let's Make Love
Title: Listen, Let's Make Love
Character: Lallo
Released: September 13, 1968
Type: Movie
When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war.
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Wheel of Ashes
Title: Wheel of Ashes
Character: Pierre
Released: August 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre Clementi protagonist's inner life remains obscure, the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood that offers his temptations appears in harrowing detail.
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The Idols
Title: The Idols
Character: Charly le Surineur
Released: June 14, 1968
Type: Movie
This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, manipulative managers and disc jockeys are portrayed as the pop culture is thoroughly and effectively lampooned in this independent feature.
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Pop' game
Title: Pop' game
Character: Un acteur du cabaret (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Poupée and her (so-called) brother Paulo share an apartment in Paris. They dream of becoming actors. In the meantime, life goes on, nothing happens, until Poupée meets François.
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The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Title: The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Character: Benjamin
Released: January 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
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Chromo sud
Title: Chromo sud
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
One of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated 'diary films.' Like the contemporaneous films by O'Leary's more famous friend Pierre Clementi, they trippily document the drug-drenched hedonism of that era's dandies. O'Leary worked with an intoxicating style that foregrounded rapid and even subliminal cutting, dense layering of superimposed images and a spontaneous notebook type shooting style. Yet even if much of O'Leary's material was initially 'diaristic,' depicting the friends, lovers, and places that he encountered in his private life, the metamorphoses it underwent during editing transformed it into a series of ambiguously fictionalized, sometimes darkly sexual fantasias. - Experimental Film Club
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Un film porno
Title: Un film porno
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
After having spent a year in Warhol's Factory, painter Olivier Mosset returned to Paris with an appetite for film and began hosting Super 8 nights in his apartment. UN FILM PORNO is a miniature sample.
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Homeo
Title: Homeo
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not something specific that I wanted to say: what the film depicts is above all reality, not fiction. Homeo is, for me, the search for an autonomous cinematographic language, which doesn't owe anything to traditional narrative, or maybe everything. Cinema is, above all, part of a way of life which will become more and more self-assured in the years and century to come. We are part of this change, and that’s why I tried in Homeo to establish a series of perpetual changes, in constant evolution or regress, which tries, above all, to focus on things.
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Heads and Tales
Title: Heads and Tales
Released: November 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Directed by a friend of Étienne O'Leary, this film missive, whose words are images, was held in very high esteem by Pierre Clémenti.
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Lamiel
Title: Lamiel
Character: Fedor de Miossens
Released: August 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after her marriage to a penniless count, and the two experience a romantic rendezvous of forbidden love after Lamiel goes from being a poor peasant woman to living a life of comparative luxury.
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Belle de Jour
Title: Belle de Jour
Character: Marcel
Released: May 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
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Shock Troops
Title: Shock Troops
Character: Militiaman
Released: April 5, 1967
Type: Movie
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
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The Man Who Laughs
Title: The Man Who Laughs
Character: Orsini's Partisan
Released: August 20, 1966
Type: Movie
Spectacular adventures of twin brothers, one with a scar which gives him a permanent smile, and their meetings with the Borgias.
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Brigade Anti Gangs
Title: Brigade Anti Gangs
Character: Trois-Pommes
Released: August 18, 1966
Type: Movie
The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers - Raymond Pellegrin - and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.
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Pop Age
Title: Pop Age
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the impact of fashion (long hair and accoutrements) and modernity, youth, change, freedom.
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Les Bargasses
Title: Les Bargasses
Released: May 5, 1965
Type: Movie
A film by Marc'o
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Enchanted Isles
Title: Enchanted Isles
Character: Pierre
Released: March 15, 1965
Type: Movie
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her father and brother, dead while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end.
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How Not to Rob a Department Store
Title: How Not to Rob a Department Store
Released: February 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Bandits see the fruits of their theft fall into the hands of black jackets.
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The Leopard
Title: The Leopard
Character: Francesco Paolo
Released: March 27, 1963
Type: Movie
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
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Adorable menteuse
Title: Adorable menteuse
Character: Pierrot (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Juliette is a young woman who just can't help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie's fiancé Martin, and to all the men she attracts with her womanly charms. But when she falls for an older man, a 40-year old lawyer, her reputation as a liar precedes her and she cannot convince him that she really does love him…
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Jack of Spades
Title: Jack of Spades
Character: Paco
Released: December 21, 1960
Type: Movie
After an adventurous life, Patrick has settled in the Camargue and bought a manade where he raises bulls, while the "riziers" gradually invade and transform the land. On the very day the bulls are being branded, Patrick sees Robert, a long-lost comrade just out of prison. He takes him in and asks for nothing, despite the general hostility. In fact, Robert begins by poaching young Paco, son of the gardian-chef, by offering to rob a bank; then he covets his friend's almost-fiancée, Zeffa; finally, he organizes a devastating expedition against the rice farmers, in short, he behaves like a real "dog in a poke", sowing discord and brawl everywhere.
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Les frangines
Title: Les frangines
Released: February 10, 1960
Type: Movie
The owner of a suburban boarding school is found murdered. The culprit will be unmasked thanks to the ingenuity and courage of the good Janine and a student, named Nadine.