Jacques Rozier

Directing

Jacques Rozier

Born — Died

1926-11-10 — 2023-05-31

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

48 titles

Jacques Rozier (French: [ʁo.zje]; 10 November 1926 – 31 May 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter. He is one of the lesser known members of the French New Wave movement and has collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard. Three of his films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacques Rozier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

Adieu Philippine poster
6.8

Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.

Adieu Philippine

1962

Maine-Ocean Express poster
5.8

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).

Maine-Ocean Express

1986

Paparazzi poster
6.5

Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.

Paparazzi

1964

Roméos et Jupettes poster
6.0

Three young women seek advice on how to navigate the pressures of dating, men, and socializing.

Roméos et Jupettes

1966

Near Orouët poster
6.4

A patient observation on the adventures of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards, and going out with guys, enjoying life's simple pleasures.

Near Orouët

1973

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Adieu Philippine poster
6.8

Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.

Adieu Philippine

1962

Adieu Philippine poster
6.8

Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.

Adieu Philippine

1962

Maine-Ocean Express poster
5.8

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).

Maine-Ocean Express

1986

Paparazzi poster
6.5

Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.

Paparazzi

1964

Paparazzi poster
6.5

Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.

Paparazzi

1964

Roméos et Jupettes poster
6.0

Three young women seek advice on how to navigate the pressures of dating, men, and socializing.

Roméos et Jupettes

1966

Roméos et Jupettes poster
6.0

Three young women seek advice on how to navigate the pressures of dating, men, and socializing.

Roméos et Jupettes

1966

Near Orouët poster
6.4

A patient observation on the adventures of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards, and going out with guys, enjoying life's simple pleasures.

Near Orouët

1973

Near Orouët poster
6.4

A patient observation on the adventures of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards, and going out with guys, enjoying life's simple pleasures.

Near Orouët

1973

Near Orouët poster
6.4

A patient observation on the adventures of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards, and going out with guys, enjoying life's simple pleasures.

Near Orouët

1973

Fifi Martingale poster
6.3

The stage director of the play L’œuf de Pâquesis given the importante Molière award. Taking this reward for a bad joke, he thinks that a conspiracy mounts against him and decides to rewrite the play, transforming it into Molière’s La critique de l’École des femmes.

Fifi Martingale

2001

Fifi Martingale poster
6.3

The stage director of the play L’œuf de Pâquesis given the importante Molière award. Taking this reward for a bad joke, he thinks that a conspiracy mounts against him and decides to rewrite the play, transforming it into Molière’s La critique de l’École des femmes.

Fifi Martingale

2001

No artwork available
7.0

Musical based on Jean-Baptiste Lully’s musical piece, Alceste ou Le Triomphe d’Alcide. Directed during the production of the opera staging by music director Jean-Claude Malgoire and stage director Jean-Louis Martinoty.

Revenez, plaisirs exilés (sur Alceste)

1992

The Castaways of Turtle Island poster
6.0

Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.

The Castaways of Turtle Island

1976

The Castaways of Turtle Island poster
6.0

Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.

The Castaways of Turtle Island

1976

Blue Jeans poster
5.6

The story of two seventeen year old boys. They are wearing medals around their necks. They have their pockets full of chewing gum something that they chew ceaselessly. They are wearing blue jeans. They spend the day along the beach front in Cannes looking for girls to win over.

Blue Jeans

1958

Blue Jeans poster
5.6

The story of two seventeen year old boys. They are wearing medals around their necks. They have their pockets full of chewing gum something that they chew ceaselessly. They are wearing blue jeans. They spend the day along the beach front in Cannes looking for girls to win over.

Blue Jeans

1958

Frevel poster
10.0

A detective with the highest clearance rate in the country, gets involved in a case with a young woman arrested for having killed her child. The detective falls under the spell of the young woman.

Frevel

1984

Marketing Mix poster
NR

A young, ambitious, and comically naive business school graduate takes a job as a sales rep and aims to ascend the corporate ladder as quickly as possible by way of a new marketing strategy.

Marketing Mix

1979

Marketing Mix poster
NR

A young, ambitious, and comically naive business school graduate takes a job as a sales rep and aims to ascend the corporate ladder as quickly as possible by way of a new marketing strategy.

Marketing Mix

1979

Back to School poster
7.1

In a small village in Provence, on the first day of school, a young boy throws his bag into the river on a bet, and the retrieval of it leads to a thrilling adventure.

Back to School

1956

Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! poster
NR

Jeanne Moreau, filmed by Jacques Rozier, meets with Jerry Lewis, Barbet Schroeder and Orson Welles, among others.

Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !

1972

Nono Nénesse poster
5.3

Two adults play babies and wild antics ensue.

Nono Nénesse

1976

Lettre de la Sierra Morena poster
7.3

Don Quichotte (Luchini) is a modern filmmaker with views on the perfect film. Sancho Pança (Risch) is systematically condradicting Quichotte, whose film materializes in front of them as he lists his ideas

Lettre de la Sierra Morena

1983

Lettre de la Sierra Morena poster
7.3

Don Quichotte (Luchini) is a modern filmmaker with views on the perfect film. Sancho Pança (Risch) is systematically condradicting Quichotte, whose film materializes in front of them as he lists his ideas

Lettre de la Sierra Morena

1983

Encounter with Fritz Lang poster
7.0

Interview with Fritz Lang on the roof of Villa Malaparte on Capri during the filming of the fictitious film "Odysseus" and the filming of "Contempt" by Jean-Luc Godard, in which Fritz Lang plays the role of an old film director. During the interview, excerpts from the Lang films "The Nibelungen", "The Tired Death" and "M" are shown.

Encounter with Fritz Lang

1964

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo

2012

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo

2012

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo

2012

Oh, oh, oh, jolie tournée ! poster
NR

Jacques Rozier followed Bernard Ménez's tour in 1984 after the surprise success of his song "Jolie poupée". From a timecoded video in the possession of Jacques Rozier, post-production work was carried out in 2001 under the supervision of the director for his retrospective at the Center Pompidou. The element resulting from this work was digitized by the Cinémathèque française at the Hiventy laboratory in 2021.

Oh, oh, oh, jolie tournée !

1984

Dans le vent poster
6.4

Short subject on how fashion is created-- not by the great couturiers, but on the street.

Dans le vent

1963

Dans le vent poster
6.4

Short subject on how fashion is created-- not by the great couturiers, but on the street.

Dans le vent

1963

Bienvenue au pays du Père Noël poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bienvenue au pays du Père Noël

1997

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Opéra du Roi

1989

Bardot et Godard poster
6.4

A documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt.

Bardot et Godard

1964

Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête

1995

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ni figue ni raisin n°5

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Courts métrages de Jacques Rozier

1956

Dim Dam Dom : La Mode printemps 1967 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dim Dam Dom : La Mode printemps 1967

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un caprice de Poséïdon : pour en finir avec la nouvelle vague ?

2019