Juliet Berto

Juliet Berto

Born: January 16, 1947
Died: January 10, 1990
in Grenoble, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
From Wikipedia

Juliet Berto (16 January 1947 – 10 January 1990) was a French actress, director and screenwriter.

A member of the same loose group of student radicals as Anne Wiazemsky, she first appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her, and would go on to appear in many of Godard's subsequent films, including La Chinoise, Week End, Le Gai Savoir, and Vladimir et Rosa. She later became a muse for the French New Wave director Jacques Rivette, starring in Out 1 and Celine and Julie Go Boating.

In the 1980s she also became a screenwriter and film director. Her film Cap Canaille (1983) was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1987, she was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.

She died of cancer on 10 January 1990. She was 42.

Movies for Juliet Berto...

Delphine and Carole
Title: Delphine and Carole
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 14, 2020
Type: Movie
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor representation of women in the public media.
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Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
Title: Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 22, 2011
Type: Movie
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The Ministries of Art
Title: The Ministries of Art
Character: Self
Released: February 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.
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Damia: Concert in Black Velvet
Title: Damia: Concert in Black Velvet
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Documentary on the singer Damia.
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Le Temps D'Anaïs
Title: Le Temps D'Anaïs
Character: Fernande Bauche
Released: February 18, 1987
Type: Movie
An apprentice writer with an odd attitude is arrested for killing his girlfriend's lover.
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A Parisian Love Story
Title: A Parisian Love Story
Character: Mona
Released: January 2, 1987
Type: Movie
A very unusual love story indeed the one that unites for a while Marie, a young French woman born in Algier, whose dream is becoming a top model and Ali, an Algerian from Clichy, recently released from prison, who hopes to become ... an astronaut!
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Paradise Hotel
Title: Paradise Hotel
Character: Prostitute
Released: April 15, 1986
Type: Movie
A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
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Couple
Title: Couple
Character: Self
Released: January 18, 1986
Type: Movie
Couple is a cinematic series of portrait films, which show two persons, who free to do what they wish, in a fixed camera shot of 3:20 minutes.
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Family Life
Title: Family Life
Character: Mara
Released: February 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Every Saturday, to the great despair of his wife, Emmanuel finds his daughter Elise, fruit of a first union. A demanding and excessive father in his passions, he went to lay a loving trap for Elise.
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The Razor's Edge
Title: The Razor's Edge
Character: Juliette
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Samar, a child of the war, finds relief from the chaos around her through Egyptian movies she watches on television. Karim, an artist in retreat from life, remains in his apartment in war-torn West Beirut, confident that he is safe in his familiar neighborhood. An unlikely bond is formed between the two as they face the devastating civil war.
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Cinématon n°441 : Juliet Berto
Title: Cinématon n°441 : Juliet Berto
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 1984
Type: Movie
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Car Cemetery
Title: Car Cemetery
Character: Dila
Released: April 30, 1983
Type: Movie
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
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Cap Canaille
Title: Cap Canaille
Character: Paula Baretto
Released: February 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.
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The Conversation Is Over
Title: The Conversation Is Over
Character: Helena
Released: May 13, 1982
Type: Movie
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
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Mur Murs
Title: Mur Murs
Character: Visitor
Released: September 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos.
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Snow
Title: Snow
Character: Anita
Released: May 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients.
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Title: Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Character: Self
Released: March 4, 1981
Type: Movie
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.
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Guns
Title: Guns
Character: Margot
Released: November 18, 1980
Type: Movie
The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On the surface, it would seem that these characters are bad guys. In fact, the guns are to be used by a resistance group who hope to continue shipping oil to the West, despite the despotic curbs imposed upon fuel shipments by their leaders.
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Roberte
Title: Roberte
Character: Petit F
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.
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Destins parallèles
Title: Destins parallèles
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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Bastien, Bastienne
Title: Bastien, Bastienne
Character: Catherine
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Catherine (Juliet Berto) is the temporary head of the family while her husband, whom she loathes, is away fighting in the war. Her widowed sister-in-law Suzanne (Anna Prucnal) lives with her, and after awhile it becomes apparent that Catherine loathes her as well. The children in the house are all boys -- Catherine has two sons, twelve and thirteen, and Suzanne also has a twelve-year old. While the relationship between Suzanne and Catherine is coming to a head, Catherine is having an affair with an army officer, and the boys in the family are planning a musical performance for everyone. The crescendo may be barely audible at the beginning, but it builds up to a tragedy at the end.
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°441
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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Sophie et le Capitaine
Title: Sophie et le Capitaine
Released: May 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Unfinished movie after two weeks shooting in May 1978.
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The Moving-Picture Man
Title: The Moving-Picture Man
Character: Juliet
Released: November 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Happy fun times with a little crew of people driving around to backwater villages to show movies in places where the locals don't get much culture. But all good things come to an end...
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Mr. Klein
Title: Mr. Klein
Character: Jeanine
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
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Duelle
Title: Duelle
Character: Leni
Released: September 15, 1976
Type: Movie
The Daughter of the Moon battles the Daughter of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris.
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Male of the Century
Title: Male of the Century
Character: Isabelle
Released: March 12, 1975
Type: Movie
The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
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Claro
Title: Claro
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
In the words of the director, a movie about 'the colonizers in the view of the colonized', the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings throughout Europe and Brazil emphasizing the perception of human life as trance-like experiences and thus offering a view of the human history as a connection of symbolic behavior.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Céline and Julie Go Boating
Title: Céline and Julie Go Boating
Character: Céline
Released: September 18, 1974
Type: Movie
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality. An undisputed classic of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating is a delightful movie about the spiritual journey of a pair of young women, told with a playful approach to the cinematic form. A masterpiece of cinematic creativity, Rivette, the same mind behind 1969’s L’amour fou, effortlessly draws the viewer into the whimsical world of the titular protagonists.
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The Middle of the World
Title: The Middle of the World
Character: Juliette
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.
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Summer Run
Title: Summer Run
Released: August 5, 1974
Type: Movie
A young American who is not ready for adulthood spends a final summer of freedom backpacking across Europe. He falls in love and, as the summer ends, he must decide whether to stay or return to a far less alluring future.
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Défense de savoir
Title: Défense de savoir
Character: Juliette Cristiani
Released: August 29, 1973
Type: Movie
When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.
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I. You. They.
Title: I. You. They.
Character: La femme qui achète les hommes sur catalogue
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed from the outside world. What struck her the most was to find out that her boss had shrunk his wife and kept her in the fridge in order, as he said, to keep her safe from a hostile world!
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Return from Africa
Title: Return from Africa
Character: Juliet, la postière
Released: March 23, 1973
Type: Movie
An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.
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Out 1 : Spectre
Title: Out 1 : Spectre
Character: Frederique
Released: December 25, 1972
Type: Movie
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...
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The Big Shots
Title: The Big Shots
Character: Célia Murelli
Released: October 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries.
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Sex Shop
Title: Sex Shop
Character: Isabelle
Released: October 25, 1972
Type: Movie
On the advice of a friend, Claude, married to the charming Isabelle and father of two, decided to transform his library, hardly flourishing, into a sex shop. This change of activity proves to be very lucrative and sharpens his desire to spice up his married life through various erotic experiences. Claude asks his wife to share with him the audacity he dreams of. Soon, the household meets a dentist and his wife and is engaged, without much success, to new discoveries. Isabelle, full of good will, tries to follow her husband ...
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Title: Out 1
Character: Frédérique
Released: October 9, 1971
Type: TV
Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.
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Out 1
Title: Out 1
Character: Frédérique
Released: October 9, 1971
Type: Movie
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
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On the Lam
Title: On the Lam
Character: Annick Damien
Released: September 29, 1971
Type: Movie
A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.
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Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Title: Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Character: Camille
Released: April 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Camille invites some soldiers to spend a Sunday in the country with her. When they arrive, they find that something is amiss.
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Vladimir and Rosa
Title: Vladimir and Rosa
Character: Juliet / Weatherwoman / Hippie (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activities. Judge Hoffman becomes the character Judge Himmler (played by Ernest Menzer) and the defendants become a microcosms of the French Revolution.
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L'escadron Volapük
Title: L'escadron Volapük
Character: Marguerite, la serveuse
Released: February 3, 1971
Type: Movie
This somewhat talky French-language film concerns a goofy bunch of military types and involves them in encounters with a variety of late '60s radicals who spout off a bit. It is notable chiefly because it was about to be subjected to severe censorship for its political content but was saved by the incoming Culture Minister Jacques Duhamel.
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The Water Spider
Title: The Water Spider
Released: January 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Bernard is in love with a water spider. He wants to replace his wife Catherine with the spider because she bores him. The spider transforms into a tarantula and later in a mysterious mute girl named Nadie. He falls in love with the girl/spider and finally he has to choose between his wife or the spider.
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Comrades
Title: Comrades
Character: Juliette
Released: November 5, 1970
Type: Movie
22 year-old- Yan is trying hard to find his way in life: a job he likes, an ideal. In Saint-Nazaire, his home town, he vegetates, just like his father, an unambitious worker. His fiancée, Juliette, has middle class values and dreams of nothing but a comfortable married life. Dissatisfied, he moves to Paris where he becomes an assembly line worker at the Billancourt Renault car factory. Sick of the working conditions he and his fellow workers have to endure there, he soon turns into a leftist activist...
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A Savage Summer
Title: A Savage Summer
Character: Sylvie
Released: July 1, 1970
Type: Movie
In Juan-les-Pins, Serge drops off a hitchhiker, Sylvie, who joins "Théo's gang", a group of students and workers, all young, all broke, improvising their vacations from day to day. Among them, Serge meets Helle, a discreet young girl with whom he quickly falls in love, but whom he can only win over once he's sorted out his many problems with the wrong people.
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A Simple Story
Title: A Simple Story
Character: Merle
Released: June 7, 1970
Type: Movie
A documentary filmmaker goes to work on a project about Tunisians who have worked abroad. Many have married French women, and the couples try to adjust to France after many years in Tunisia. The man decides to forego the film in order to address the personal and social concerns of the people trying to cope in their new surroundings. This feature appeared at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
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Slogan
Title: Slogan
Character: L'assistante de Serge
Released: July 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh. His own pregnant wife Francoise usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.
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The Joy of Learning
Title: The Joy of Learning
Character: Patricia Lumumba
Released: July 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.
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Destroy Yourselves
Title: Destroy Yourselves
Released: May 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Detruisez-vous is a ‘primitive’ film which breaks all the rules of film-making. It’s the first Zanzibar film (and predates the very naming of the movement), an attempt to make a film which defies the rules of production, the production line of commerce
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Willing
Title: Willing
Character: Régine
Released: March 10, 1969
Type: Movie
A young, unscrupulous director hires an actress and uses the story she tells him of her life to write his screenplay, but fires her and entrusts the leading role to someone else.
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Wheel of Ashes
Title: Wheel of Ashes
Character: Girl Playing Pinball 1
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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Weekend
Title: Weekend
Character: Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
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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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La Chinoise
Title: La Chinoise
Character: Yvonne
Released: August 30, 1967
Type: Movie
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Title: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Character: Girl Talking to Robert
Released: March 17, 1967
Type: Movie
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
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Juliet in Paris
Title: Juliet in Paris
Character: Juliet Michaux
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A young student, alone in Paris, is engaged in strange and bloody experiences of which she is both the authorizer and the victim.