Jacques Portet

Un garçon de France

The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love.

We Forget Everything!

Anne, who has just had an argument with her boyfriend Vassili, is put up for the night by Jacques and Odile, a couple of friends. But when Jacques takes her home the next day, he is arrested by the police, who mistake him for Vassili. In reality, Vassili is a terrorist.

The Porcelain Anniversary

Guests gather for the porcelain anniversary of a couple. When another woman's husband leaves her in front of everyone's eyes, the anniversary-celebrating husband gallantly makes loves to her in front of the same people. Then a sexual and confessional free-for-all erupts, until one of the wives, repulsed, runs away.

The Scorched Triangle

The 22-year-old Sabine is married to 38 years old Jacques. They have a child. Their emotional life becomes monotonous and she gets bored more and more. So she takes a lover, Pierre, whom she meets in the underground parking lot of the building. Jacques has his doubts about this relationship and says nothing. He hopes to save his family and regain Sabine.

Hot Lips

Drama about the determined efforts of the wife of a sex researcher to reveal her husband's hypocrisy and get revenge for his humiliating behavior to her.

Earth Light

The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.

Them

An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.

Noon and Midnight

A woman marries into a family of insane psychopaths in this bizarre French horror film with strong sadomasochistic overtones.

Adélaïde

A mother and her daughter both have a relationship with the same man.

Boys and Girls

Ten young people (six boys and four girls), most of whom students, rent a house in bad repair and set about living together. The experience is not obvious and the ten tenants have to cope with more than one difficulty. But they also have their moments. Things really go awry when Françoise, an unmarried girl, is forced to deliver the baby she carries prematurely and when Solange, the lonely girl of the group, attempts suicide. Shortly afterwards, the group learns that the house is due for demolition. They decide to take advantage of this opportunity to face adult life individually.

Live for Life

Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice.

Les grands moments

Four prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.

Love at Sea

During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...

To Be a Crook

Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the first "crime school", as well as their work.

Asphalt

Françoise Arnould plays here a married woman who decides one day to get away from her husband and return to her childhood place, where she meets all her former friends, and lovers.

The Familiar Shadow

Impressive sound design, non-linear editing, great ‘expressionistic’ locations and b&w cinematography, this is an experimental piece for Pialat, a psychological/gothic thriller of sorts...