Directing
Jean-Pierre Lajournade
Born 1937-04-19 · Pau, France
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.
Acting credits
NRA tragic spin on the futility of revolution, in cinema and elsewhere.
Cinéma-Cinéma
1969
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.
Bartleby
1970
NRA radical film that is at once a scathing questioning of cinema, a fierce attack against ideological sclerosis, an obvious model of total science fiction.
Le joueur de quilles
1968
Thomas is a young man who rebels against society after witnessing his father's suicide. He embarks on a marginal and increasingly violent existence with Malvina, a woman he meets, as they attempt to escape societal pressures. Their journey ultimately leads to their internment in a mental asylum, a bleak outcome reflecting their futile struggle for individual freedom.
La Fin des Pyrénées
1970
Behind the camera
NRA tragic spin on the futility of revolution, in cinema and elsewhere.
Cinéma-Cinéma
1969
NRA tragic spin on the futility of revolution, in cinema and elsewhere.
Cinéma-Cinéma
1969
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Artaud
1966
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Histoire
1967
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Olivier Larronde
1965
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Céline parmi nous
1966
NRA 1965 segment from a French television program "Seize millions de jeunes" which takes a look at the mod movement in the United Kingdom, and includes performances by the Who at the Marquee Club in London’s West End, as well as an interview with Pete Townshend.
Seize millions de jeunes: Mods
1965
NRA radical film that is at once a scathing questioning of cinema, a fierce attack against ideological sclerosis, an obvious model of total science fiction.
Le joueur de quilles
1968
NRA radical film that is at once a scathing questioning of cinema, a fierce attack against ideological sclerosis, an obvious model of total science fiction.
Le joueur de quilles
1968
An experimental, early form of "docufiction," 'Bruno' follows a young (and fictional) graduate of Philosophy who is confronted with his lack of concrete professional qualification during a job search, including several interviews with real job recruiters. Presented as part of the French news magazine program "Seize millions de jeunes."
Bruno
1967
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Libre de ne pas l'être
1969
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Le Droit d'asile
1969
5.8An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo, German expressionism of the twenties, and the ideologically motivated ‘cruelty’ of a Buñuel come together in this ferocious work of a French theatre collective – an ambitious, almost completely successful example of visual cinema at its best.
The Blood
1971
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Rapide 345
1967
Thomas is a young man who rebels against society after witnessing his father's suicide. He embarks on a marginal and increasingly violent existence with Malvina, a woman he meets, as they attempt to escape societal pressures. Their journey ultimately leads to their internment in a mental asylum, a bleak outcome reflecting their futile struggle for individual freedom.
La Fin des Pyrénées
1970
Thomas is a young man who rebels against society after witnessing his father's suicide. He embarks on a marginal and increasingly violent existence with Malvina, a woman he meets, as they attempt to escape societal pressures. Their journey ultimately leads to their internment in a mental asylum, a bleak outcome reflecting their futile struggle for individual freedom.
La Fin des Pyrénées
1970
NRWerther was one of the last feature films that Jean-Pierre Lajournade made for television. The Lajournade's version of Werther makes a critical rereading of Goethe's work through a challenge to bourgeois society.
Werther
1968
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Archiloque
1966
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Jean Cayrol
1967
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Samuel Beckett
1966
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Assomons les pauvres
1969
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Un gardien des lettres
1966
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Carnets d'un retour au pays natal
1966
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Le Prix Femina
1965