Jean-Claude Biette

Jean-Claude Biette

Born: November 6, 1942
Died: June 10, 2003
in Paris, France
Jean-Claude Biette (6 November 1942 – 10 June 2003) was a French filmmaker.

Movies for Jean-Claude Biette...

Salò: Yesterday and Today
Title: Salò: Yesterday and Today
Released: October 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.
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The Adolescent
Title: The Adolescent
Character: Nicolas
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.
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Le Dieu Mozart II
Title: Le Dieu Mozart II
Character: Nicolas
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Mange ta soupe
Title: Mange ta soupe
Released: November 12, 1997
Type: Movie
A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him.
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Oncle Vania
Title: Oncle Vania
Character: Ivan Petrovitch Verkhovenski (oncle Vania)
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Elegantly and carefully, Léon trains his sights both on Chekhov’s famous play written in 1896 and on its earlier, lesser known version entitled "The Wood Demon" (1889), combining the two.
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Le Dieu Mozart
Title: Le Dieu Mozart
Character: Nicolas
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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A Tale of Winter
Title: A Tale of Winter
Character: Quentin
Released: January 29, 1992
Type: Movie
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Title: Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Released: June 2, 1976
Type: Movie
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.
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India Song
Title: India Song
Character: Voix de la Réception (voice)
Released: June 4, 1975
Type: Movie
In 1937 Calcutta, the wife of the French ambassador takes on many lovers.
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The Garden That Tilts
Title: The Garden That Tilts
Released: May 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approaches her but fails to kill her. Instead, he falls in love and becomes her lover ...
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Céline and Julie Go Boating
Title: Céline and Julie Go Boating
Character: Spectateur au cabaret (uncredited)
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 Mother and the Whore
Title: The Mother and the Whore
Character: Café Les Deux Magots' Customer (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
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Le Château de Pointilly
Title: Le Château de Pointilly
Released: April 20, 1972
Type: Movie
A young woman escapes her father's house and goes to live in the city. There, she realises her father may still be controlling her life through the people she meets.
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Othon
Title: Othon
Character: Martianus
Released: January 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.
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Suzanne’s Career
Title: Suzanne’s Career
Character: Jean-Louis (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.