Jean-Bernard Guillard

Jean-Bernard Guillard

Born: June 20, 1949
in Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France

Movies for Jean-Bernard Guillard...

Uhloz
Title: Uhloz
Character: Le père
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Uhloz is the story of the adventures and misadventures of two children on Christmas Eve.
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The Blind Owl
Title: The Blind Owl
Character: Kasim
Released: December 31, 1987
Type: Movie
H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle.
 H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge...
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Life Is a Dream
Title: Life Is a Dream
Released: September 15, 1987
Type: Movie
A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.
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La part de l'autre
Title: La part de l'autre
Released: July 24, 1987
Type: Movie
Two twin brothers, Romain and Sylvain, live together in an isolated house by the ocean. Between them, violent relationships that oscillate between love and hate. The guardians of the house watch, fascinated and powerless, their dangerous games. Until the day when Hélène, who has already lived with them, returns to look for Sylvain, with whom she has chosen to live.
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The Insomniac on the Bridge
Title: The Insomniac on the Bridge
Released: October 2, 1985
Type: Movie
This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.
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Three Crowns of the Sailor
Title: Three Crowns of the Sailor
Character: The Sailor
Released: April 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.
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Bérénice
Title: Bérénice
Character: Titus
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Now Titus' father has died, the new emperor will be free to marry his beloved Bérénice. Also In love with Bérénice, Titus' friend Antiochus plans to flee Rome rather than face the marriage. However, public opinion about the pairing causes Titus to choose his duty to Rome over his love for Bérénice, and he sends his love rival to tell Bérénice the news...
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Chinese Shadows
Title: Chinese Shadows
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A series of compounding dramatic situations, drawn from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and acted out in shadowplay and voiceover.
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My American Uncle
Title: My American Uncle
Character: Comedian
Released: May 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.