Jean Rollin

Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin

The story of French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010), one of the most singular voices of European cult cinema, deeply misunderstood and widely misrepresented.

The Story of French Fantasy Cinema

The story of the French fantasy cinema from Méliès to Raw.

Jean Rollin: The Stray Dreamer

Who is Jean Rollin? A man who has spent his childhood in the middle of some of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. An artist who has worked with Marguerite Duras for his first film. A director's career singular and unique in French cinema, with films overtly fantastic, surreal, poetic - disconcerting. A filmmaker has always murdered by the critics but starting, finally, to enjoy some recognition in France, while many fans worship him already in Europe and the United States. Jean Rollin signs a marginal and unknown work marked by death and nostalgia, and whose main obsession is the time, that of the wandering and dreams. Jean Rollin died in December 2010 at the age of 72. This documentary is the portrait of a real artist, the last surrealist, a poet who created his very own dreamworld. A tribute for a unique director, with testimonials from his closest collaborators.

Rencontre avec Jean Rollin et Jean-Pierre Bouyxou à la boutique Hors-Circuits

A discussion between Jean Rollin and Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

Dinosaur From The Deep

Year 2004. Not knowing how to run an abominable criminal recidivist while the death penalty has been abolished, FBI experts and lawyers condemned the imagine embarking on a journey through time To a time when the sentence still applied. For financial reasons, this expedition is coupled with a scientific mission on the planet Terra and charge of tracing the first dinosaurs. They do exist, and while the crew was launched in pursuit of the prisoner at large. Their members must live and face the horror of these blood-thirsty monsters ...!

Alien Platoon

Major Taylor creates a super-soldier who goes rogue due to his insatiable lust for 'girls' and runs amok in the French countryside.

Trepanator

Dr. Herbert East is working in his uncle's clinic and experimenting with brain transplants.

In Pursuit of Barbara

In 1990, Jean Rollin was hired to transform some footage Jesús Franco had shot in 1971 into a new jungle adventure film. Rollin gave up after a few days of shooting in a Madrid hotel garden. The film remains an unreleased short curiosity.

The Escapees

On the run from an asylum for the insane, two girls embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.

Zombie Lake

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.

Par devant par derrière

A young girl arrives unannounced at his uncle to celebrate her birthday, as he is not free, she holds a very special evening with friends of his uncle.

Disco Sex

A disco band shows up at a studio to make a new album, but they are badly mobbed by a bunch of female groupies. A big orgy breaks out that postpones the recording session.

The Grapes of Death

A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.

Amours collectives

Amours Collectives starts out as libertarian porn, but ends up more like direct cinema, in which the film itself functions as its own making-of! Witty, salacious scenes follow one after another, with the director more or less becoming the central character.

Lips of Blood

Frédéric sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.

The Seduction of Amy

An evil count lures beautiful women to his castle, there to imprison them in his torture chamber for his amusement.

Schoolgirl Hitchhikers

Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

The Iron Rose

A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.

The Rape of the Vampire

After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.

Paris ciné bis

Frédéric Charruault, loyal reader of Médusa Fanzine, had produced in 1994, a short documentary on the cinemas of Paris (the Brady, theTrianon, the Paris-cinema) which has just been archived at the Toulouse cinematheque. The opportunity to rediscover the atmosphere of these legendary rooms today.