Jacques Doillon
Date of Birth: 15 Mar 1944
Country: France
Biography: Jacques Doillon (born 15 March 1944) is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women.
Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Actor), 20 (Director), 19 (Writer)
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Talia runs away from home taking her beloved dog with her. When her dog is stolen Talia enlists the help of a gang of boys to help her find her pet.
A cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's yearning for a nineteen year local girl. Raja is an orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush garden. Fred's attempt to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income, age and cultural sophistication.
After the suicide of her husband, a widow is trying to get a confession from his mistress that it was her fault. (imdb)
In Paris, Alex meets two girls: Fred, with whom he falls in love, and Sylvia, a young lady who is both tender and lost. Fred then organizes a bizarre game of seduction, leading Alex to truly desire Sylvia. But the trap closes on Fred. She succumbs to the charm of Alex. This sudden passion scares Alex, while Sylvia takes a liking to the game.
An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother's death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. She tries waiting, and when her mother still doesn't appear, tries magic chants, praying to God, and then becoming a child of God, to have some power over Him. All to no avail. But then, when she is in despair, her mother does come back ... (imdb)
This is an affecting story about a father's attempts to mend the breaches in the relationship between himself and his 10-year-old daughter... (imdb)
Costa (Gérald Thomassin) and Camille (Clémentine Beaugrand) have an ungainly relationship, awkwardly built on complicit affection, but fundamentally unclear and undefined on nearly every level, from that of sexuality, their lopsided devotion, and intimacy (a potential rape is continually alluded to) to something as clear and simply what one thinks of or sees in the other... (notebook.theauteurs.com)
Outcast from most of society and much of his family, François kidnaps young Mado in an act of despair and longing. Unloved by her own family, Mado finds that her captor also acts as her protector. This seemingly odd pair soon grows close in a way that society cannot comprehend.
Though he has been having affairs for years, one day when Jacques comes home from being with his mistress, his wife Dominique greets him with tears and demands for affection. After having accepted the situation for so long, it is puzzling to him that she has suddenly grown so demanding. He is not about to leave either woman. Dominique attempts to cope when he brings his mistress home with him, but her inner state is one of increasing hysteria, and tragedy is never very far away.
In this avant-garde drama, five main protagonists talk incessantly and occasionally scream at each other while making it clear that verbal fights are going to lead to mayhem since they carry knives and guns to back up their angry outbursts. (allmovie.com)
Marie and Antoine live together. They are in love. She wants to have a baby, but he does not agree. She meets Paul. Paul tries to seduce her, Marie rejects him, but when Paul sleeps with her sister Juliette, she realizes she is in love with him. She tries to forget him with Antoine, but Antoine imagines they had sex and is very jealous. Marie is lost : she thinks of Paul when she is with Antoine and of Antoine when she is with Paul. She becomes pregnant and is not sure of who is the father... (imdb)
A film about Marc (Gérald Thomassin, 18 ans avant de Le premier venu) who is 14 years old and how is a delinquent, He lives at a poor "banlieue" at Séte, with his mother and his grandfather. After a phonecall, he discovers that his sister (Clotilde Corau) is not dead, as he thought. He will steal and kidnapp to join her. (KG)
A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place. (imdb)
Film of Jacques Doillon, who entrusts a sequence on Nigeria to Jean Rouch and one on New York to Alain Resnais. The film has one complete duration of 87 minutes; script by Gébé with Gerard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Higelin and the team of Splendid. Originally a comic strip published in Charlie-monthly magazine, this film is an ecological and "tiers-mondiste" utopia . (KG)
Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery. (imdb)
A woman returns to the village where she was born due to the death of her father.
She meets a man who dedicates only to farming and writing. They begin a relation that is mostly made out of physical confrontations.
It serves as an escape from her problems with her brothers, and it takes a dimension of exploration.
Physical and psychological surrender, a defenseless ritual of both attraction and repulsion where the erotic charge is always brutal. (wipfilms.net)
Ismael and his friends get over the death of his best friend, from whom he has recently distanced.
Claire and Kevin both attend a French village school. They are in the same class, CE2, for children aged eight and nine. Claire is the target of constant bullying by Kevin and his friends, and this is even starting to get violent. (imdb)