Jean-Charles Fitoussi

Directing

Jean-Charles Fitoussi

Born 1970-06-01 · Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

Jean-Charles Fitoussi was born on June 1, 1970 in Tours, France. He is a director known for Les jours où je n'existe pas (2002), Je ne suis pas morte (2008) and Nocturnes pour le roi de Rome (2005). Fitoussi has also worked as an assistant director to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and collaborated as a film critic writing for "La Lettre du Cinéma" magazine .

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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9.0

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Aura été

1994

Cavatine poster
NR

Determined to change his life, the Count of Servadac donated his castle and each of the bodies of the family members to the avant-garde medicine of William Stein (great-grandson of Victor Frankenstein), duly poisoned for this purpose. . Opportunity for Stein to carry out the first transplant of memory neurons on human corpses.

Cavatine

2019

Cavatine poster
NR

Determined to change his life, the Count of Servadac donated his castle and each of the bodies of the family members to the avant-garde medicine of William Stein (great-grandson of Victor Frankenstein), duly poisoned for this purpose. . Opportunity for Stein to carry out the first transplant of memory neurons on human corpses.

Cavatine

2019

Cavatine poster
NR

Determined to change his life, the Count of Servadac donated his castle and each of the bodies of the family members to the avant-garde medicine of William Stein (great-grandson of Victor Frankenstein), duly poisoned for this purpose. . Opportunity for Stein to carry out the first transplant of memory neurons on human corpses.

Cavatine

2019

Vitalium, Valentine ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vitalium, Valentine !

2017

Vitalium, Valentine ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vitalium, Valentine !

2017

Vitalium, Valentine ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vitalium, Valentine !

2017

By Then poster
6.6

A child wanders through Rome and its surrounding areas over seven days, encountering the ancient landscape, cinema, and local life. The journey culminates in anticipation of a specific, fateful date: July 12, 1995.

By Then

1997

By Then poster
6.6

A child wanders through Rome and its surrounding areas over seven days, encountering the ancient landscape, cinema, and local life. The journey culminates in anticipation of a specific, fateful date: July 12, 1995.

By Then

1997

By Then poster
6.6

A child wanders through Rome and its surrounding areas over seven days, encountering the ancient landscape, cinema, and local life. The journey culminates in anticipation of a specific, fateful date: July 12, 1995.

By Then

1997

No artwork available
NR

Théophile spends his holidays in Italy, in the Marche hills, and enjoys the freedom he finds at his grandfather’s. The latter, who lives a reclusive life, becomes seriously ill and the child calls for a doctor, William Stein, who had saved the old man’s life seven years ago. Stein sends his best nurse along… who is absolutely free to do as she pleases.

The Enclosure of Time

2013

Le Dieu Saturne poster
7.0

Laurent comes to visit his father not far from Bethune. But his father, who lives a hermit's life deep in the woods, has only one thing on his mind : to do away with his six children in order to relieve them of the miseries of life. Welcomed at the Caboche farm where his brother Frederic works (Frederic advises him not to try to see their father), Laurent is delighted to see hardy 81 year old Alfred again. The gods are not far off, and, despite all, the pleasures of existence too.

Le Dieu Saturne

2004

Le Dieu Saturne poster
7.0

Laurent comes to visit his father not far from Bethune. But his father, who lives a hermit's life deep in the woods, has only one thing on his mind : to do away with his six children in order to relieve them of the miseries of life. Welcomed at the Caboche farm where his brother Frederic works (Frederic advises him not to try to see their father), Laurent is delighted to see hardy 81 year old Alfred again. The gods are not far off, and, despite all, the pleasures of existence too.

Le Dieu Saturne

2004

The Days When I Don’t Exist poster
6.4

A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is from this circumstance so personal that he meets Clémentine, a girl who lives full time. All this will only deepen his anguish.

The Days When I Don’t Exist

2003

The Days When I Don’t Exist poster
6.4

A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is from this circumstance so personal that he meets Clémentine, a girl who lives full time. All this will only deepen his anguish.

The Days When I Don’t Exist

2003

The Days When I Don’t Exist poster
6.4

A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is from this circumstance so personal that he meets Clémentine, a girl who lives full time. All this will only deepen his anguish.

The Days When I Don’t Exist

2003

Sicilia! Si gira poster
7.0

Former Straub/Huillet assistant Jean-Charles Fitoussi films them at work during the shooting of 1999's Sicilia!.

Sicilia! Si gira

2001

I Did Not Die poster
NR

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

I Did Not Die

2008

I Did Not Die poster
NR

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

I Did Not Die

2008

I Did Not Die poster
NR

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

I Did Not Die

2008

Temps Japonais poster
NR

A “minute-film” directed as little scenes in Japan, according to Fitoussi’s own words that is never shown in the same editing, hence, if you see the film several times, you litteraly won’t see the film, there is as many versions as there are projections.

Temps Japonais

2008

Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub - 08.01.2018 - réalisation: Jean-Charles Fitoussi poster
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Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday. Directed by Jean-Charles Fitoussi.

Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub - 08.01.2018 - réalisation: Jean-Charles Fitoussi

2018

No artwork available
NR

Fitoussi’s back with yet another delicious philosophical treat. How about spending a summer afternoon in a garden of an old house bathed in southern light, listening to Clément Rosset and Spinoza converse about the mysterious pleasure that music gives to our body and mind?

De la musique ou La jota de Rosset

2013

Nocturnes for the King of Rome poster
6.5

An elderly German composer is invited to Roma by the King to compose eight Notturni. But the memories of tragic events he experienced in the very place to which he is returning, leave him unable to compose.

Nocturnes for the King of Rome

2010