Biography: Jean-Pierre Léaud |
The son of French writer/director Pierre Léaud and actress Jacqueline Pierreux, Jean-Pierre Léaud used none of his connections to win his first screen role. The 15-year-old Léaud answered an open call posted by François Truffaut, and as a result... more
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Cast: Tsai Ming-Liang
Length: 138min
A filmmaker is attempting to complete an ambitious project in the midst of a family tragedy in this self-referential drama from writer and director Tsai Ming-Liang. Hsaio-Kong (Lee Kang-Sheng) is a director from Taiwan who is soon to begin shooting...
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2005)
Cast: Josiane Balasko
Length: 101min
The kidnapping and assassination of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka, fictionalized in Yves Boisset's L'Attentat in 1972, gets a more historically accurate treatment in Serge Le Péron's oirish docudrama, the tabloid-headline-titled I Saw...
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 111min
A man who traded in his artistic ambitions for commercial success now finds himself at a personal and professional impasse in this drama. Jacques (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is a filmmaker who in the 1970s directed a number of top-grossing porno movies; more...
Cast: Bernard Giraudeau
Tags: Crime Drama Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 91min
A waiter discovers that good taste can be dangerous in this offbeat psychological drama from France. Nicolas (Jean-Pierre Lorit) is a young man living in bohemian poverty in Lyon, sharing a flat with his girlfriend Beatrice (Florence Thomassin) and...
Cast: Jacques Rivette Eric Rohmer Bernadette Lafont
Length: 743min
Jacques Rivette's epic-scale meditation on art, politics and relationships is an eight-part, 740 minute drama that begins as an examination of two Parisian theater companies. Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a...
Cast: Irène Jacob
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Drama Crime Comedy
Length: 96min
Former ~Cahiers du Cinema editor Serge Le Peron writes and directs this screwball crime comedy chock full of ironic film references. The film opens with student radical-turned-magistrate Francois Marcorelle (Jean-Pierre Leaud) stumbling into an art...
Cast: Ornella Muti
Tags: Sex Comedy Comedy
Length: 100min
Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is because Nicolas does not know of Alice's affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex...
La Naissance de L'Amour (1994)
Cast: Raoul Coutard
Tags: Drama
Length: 91min
Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul is an actor leading a drab directionless existence. He has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His...
Cast: Maggie Cheung
Tags: Comedy of Manners Ensemble Film Satire Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 99min
Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep tells the story of has-been French filmmaker René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud). In an attempt to reinvigorate his career, Vidal decides to remake Les Vampires, the classic silent serial featuring the...
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud
Tags: Urban Drama Romantic Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 95min
Louise (Judith Godrèche) is living with Clément (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an older man who copes with her bouts of drug addiction and is attempting to give her a hand in getting a television career going. When the man's son Adrien (Thomas Langmann), who...
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