Bernard Queysanne

Directing

Bernard Queysanne

Born 1944-06-09 · Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]

Born in 1944, Bernard Queysanne started working as an assistant director, assistant editor, set photographer and production manager on numerous films of Georges Franju, Philippe Labro, Robert Enrico, Serge Korber. At the same time, he directed several short films, then in 1974 his first long feature,"The Man Who Sleeps", co-directed with Georges Perec and won the Jean Vigo award.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Man Who Sleeps poster
7.8

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

The Man Who Sleeps

1974

The Devil in the Heart poster
4.9

It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl (but she sleeps with the dad). The young student is far from the post May 68 clichés and the movie walks a fine line off the beaten path. Philippe Lemaire and Emmanuelle Riva are ideally cast as the bourgeois parents who urge their offspring to attend the grandma's Christmas meal.

The Devil in the Heart

1976

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Billard écarlate

1990

Lover Boy poster
4.7

"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien's own perceptions about the woman's line of work, going out with wealthy guys.

Lover Boy

1978

Lover Boy poster
4.7

"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien's own perceptions about the woman's line of work, going out with wealthy guys.

Lover Boy

1978

L'oeil de l'autre poster
7.0

A delusion of persecution scripted by Georges Perec! Chantal, a bank employee, has the constant impression of being spied on by surveillance cameras, customers, passers-by... She confides her anxieties to her husband, who pays little attention. After a Sunday in the country, instead of being calmed, her troubles increase.

L'oeil de l'autre

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9.0

Through the eyes of his friends and the adaptation of "Espèces d'espaces", this original documentary offers the least institutional image, the most friendly, the closest to Georges Perec. This documentary is composed of two films that respond to each other: one is a montage of conversations that Bernard Queysanne had with some of Georges Perec's many friends. They remember above all the man: the one who wrote on any piece of paper, who excelled in the art of puns, who liked to party with his friends and who lived sometimes unhappy love affairs. The other is an adaptation of "Espèces d'espaces", the writer's reflections on places: rooms, buildings, streets and districts.

Propos amicaux à propos d'espèces d'espaces

1999

Mademoiselle B poster
NR

Does the devil wear white? In a small province, a certain Miss B leaves corpses in her wake and fuels a lot of superstitious gossip. Despite warnings from the villagers, a writer becomes interested in the case and decides to visit the mysterious young woman dressed in white.

Mademoiselle B

1986

Mademoiselle B poster
NR

Does the devil wear white? In a small province, a certain Miss B leaves corpses in her wake and fuels a lot of superstitious gossip. Despite warnings from the villagers, a writer becomes interested in the case and decides to visit the mysterious young woman dressed in white.

Mademoiselle B

1986