Jean-Pierre Lajournade

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After studying at IDHEC from 1959 to 1961, he worked for television from 1962 to 1968. He was co-producer and director of the program Lire: he signed fifteen documentaries and four TV movies. In 1967 he filmed his first short film, Assommons les pauvres, with stolen film. He left the ORTF after the strike movement of May 1968. He then devoted himself to the realization of his experimental feature film (Le Joueur de quilles), produced by Jean-Edern Hallier, and three short films produced by Pierre Braunberger. He collaborated in the journal Cinéthique from 1975.

19-04-1937

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Pau, France

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19-04-1937

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Pau, France

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Bartleby

French short adaptation of Herman Melville's classic. The employee of a lawyer is in a mental hospital following a scandal. Some time later, he finds his employer.

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1970

La Fin des Pyrénées

This bitter and ironic satire illustrates the universal problems with youth and their revolt against the bourgeois establishment. The man becomes a symbolic victim of what he is protesting and resigns himself to a gloomy future with bleak prospects for humankind. This directorial debut for Jean Pierre Lajournade was well received at the 1970 Mannheim Film Festival.

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1970

Cinéma-Cinéma

A tragic spin on the futility of revolution, in cinema and elsewhere.

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1969

Le joueur de quilles

A radical film that is at once a scathing questioning of cinema, a fierce attack against ideological sclerosis, an obvious model of total science fiction.

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1968