Jean-François Lapalus

Jean-François Lapalus

Movies for Jean-François Lapalus...

Sommeil blanc
Title: Sommeil blanc
Character: le libraire
Released: December 2, 2009
Type: Movie
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
Title: Fan-Fan the Tulip
Character: L'oncle de Lison
Released: June 20, 2003
Type: Movie
In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters
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Night Shift
Title: Night Shift
Character: Mickey
Released: March 14, 2001
Type: Movie
A worker in a bottle factory, Pierre decides to switch from day shift to night shift. In his new team, he runs into Fred, a charismatic and violent guy. Fred says loudly that Pierre is his boyfriend. In fact, he never misses an opportunity to bully or humiliate him. This could only be a bad joke. But the harassment continues in a downward spiral ...
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Under the Sand
Title: Under the Sand
Character: Paris Doctor
Released: September 11, 2000
Type: Movie
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
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Time Regained
Title: Time Regained
Character: Café de la Paix's head waiter
Released: May 19, 1999
Type: Movie
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
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Genealogies of a Crime
Title: Genealogies of a Crime
Character: Le médecin morgue
Released: May 4, 1997
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
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Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Title: Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Character: Martin Ladvenu
Released: February 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Joan has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.
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Brise-glace
Title: Brise-glace
Released: September 5, 1990
Type: Movie
Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".
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The Blind Owl
Title: The Blind Owl
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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Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace
Title: Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace
Released: December 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.
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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.