Directing
Pascal Aubier
Born
1943-01-07 (83)
Place of birth
Paris, France
Known for
Directing
Credits
60 titles
Pascal Aubier (1943) studied Russian, Chinese, Mongolian, Georgian and Wahilu (New Caledonian) at the Ecole de Langues Orientales in Paris. Aubier was an assistant director to Jean-Luc Godard (Bande à Part, Le Mépris, Pierrot le Fou, Masculin Féminin, Weekend). In 1970 he made his first feature film Valparaiso, Valparaiso. Since then he has made about forty shorts. In 1976, he made his second feature Le Chant du Depart.
Known for
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Ciné regards
1978
7.3Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Pierrot le Fou
1965
5.2A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in Paris.
Favorites of the Moon
1985
7.2The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
Siberiade
1979
5.6A playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance.
Women Are Weak
1959
5.1A French civil servant throws The Governor's Party when his daughter comes of age regardless of colonial unrest and her parents' stormy marriage.
The Governor's Party
1990
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
6.0Vincent lives in a village, along the Rhône. Every morning he goes to the factory to work, and in the evening he takes care of his family. One day, he decides to go on a trip with the money given by his father.
Monday Morning
2002
6.0When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known and a host of sometimes eccentric, often remarkable everyday people, Vincent really begins to start living again.
Gardens in Autumn
2006
1990s · 5 titles
5.1A French civil servant throws The Governor's Party when his daughter comes of age regardless of colonial unrest and her parents' stormy marriage.
The Governor's Party
1990
5.8Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the hands of Japanese businessmen.
Chasing Butterflies
1992
9.01957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions.
Le Cri des hommes
1991
5.4Mona is the girlfriend of Pierre, who is a member of a rather pathetic rock band in France. Their hero is the singer "Johnny Valentine " who, seeing that Mona is being neglected, decides to make her his own.
Mona and I
1990
8.5Rose was a brilliant student of Fine Arts. Then, she gave up everything for a "beautiful marriage". Now in her thirties, she is experiencing more and more difficulties in her life, which is both materially overprotected and difficult with her three children and an increasingly absent husband. She breaks down, cracks up and tries to imagine how she could broach the subject with her husband before it's too late. To her great amazement, it was Didier who, one evening before going to visit friends, announced that he was leaving and that he had already rented a small studio. After the shock, Rose goes to her father, an old Spanish anarchist, who gives her back the taste for values she thought she had lost.
Les femmes et les enfants d'abord
1994
1980s · 8 titles
5.2A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in Paris.
Favorites of the Moon
1985
9.0A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
Paradise Hotel
1986
No synopsis available yet.
La sauteuse (de l'ange)
1987
4.8A young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
1982
4.0Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
1983
7.5Anna is a stylist in Budapest. One day at a restaurant, she thinks she recognizes Marie Aubier, a 22-year-old French girl, her own daughter.
A Mother, a Daughter
1981
10.0In a working-class immigrant neighborhood slated for demolition, Jo, the son of Ali, known as the Rescuer from the Algerian war, lives idle and delinquent, committing small assaults to pay for his drugs. One day, while attacking Slim's bar, he is arrested by Ben, a young beur cop torn between his roots and the imperatives of his mission to maintain public order. Giving in to the respect and friendship he feels for Ali, Ben agrees to release his son. But alas, far from calming down, Jo drifts deeper into violence, until the inevitable drama.
Le Rescapé
1986
7.0A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.
L'Homme fragile
1981
1970s · 2 titles
7.2The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
Siberiade
1979
A deserted soldier takes refuge among the peasants.
Le Soldat et les Trois Sœurs
1972
1960s · 7 titles
7.3Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Pierrot le Fou
1965
5.1The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.
Bonnot's Gang
1968
6.6“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game of improvisation joins the Zanzibar group with Salvador Dalí, Barbet Schroeder and Jean Mascolo... the solarized image reminiscent of thick strokes of a paintbrush.” - Philippe Azoury
Fun and Games for Everyone
1969
4.0A young student visits the home of a friend who has all the good looks, women and luck. Every day, through binoculars from his friend's window, he sees a young girl in front of her home. Although attractive, the woman's face has been badly scarred. He finds out her phone number and the two engage in pleasant conversation. He gets up enough nerve to ask to meet her in person, but the socially inept young man becomes paralyzed with fear. He again summons the courage to meet with her before he is plagued with fear once again.
The Girl Across the Way
1968
5.0A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.
Bye Bye Barbara
1969
9.0The morning of her wedding day, Nana visits a hairdresser's shop in Mamaia, a popular Romanian resort on the Black Sea shore. Bumping into a band of joyous rock-and-roll musicians, she's having a good time. But what with her fiancé?
Mamaia
1967
7.1Croatian anarchists collaborate with Hungarians to make a bid for the life of King Alexander of Yugoslavia.
Winter Wind
1969
Series credits
Behind the camera
A woman bathes near a creak. She runs away when she becomes aware of the camera.
La Champignonne
1974
No synopsis available yet.
La vie très étrange de Madame Anastasie
1966
No synopsis available yet.
La vie très étrange de Madame Anastasie
1966
No synopsis available yet.
L'Agression
1973
No synopsis available yet.
La sauteuse (de l'ange)
1987
No synopsis available yet.
La sauteuse (de l'ange)
1987
A man's bathroom routine triggers a miraculous vision in a nearby church.
L'Apparition
1986
5.1You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
Son of Gascogne
1995
5.1You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
Son of Gascogne
1995
An office manager smokes a cigarette all the way to the filter without ashing
La Cendre
1986
8.2A factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts... Aubier makes use of a series of successive pictures to portray the series of events that completes a cycle.
Death of the Rat
1975
8.0Begins with scenes of nature, in which one hears the sounds of birds and water. The final few minutes of the film focus in on a man laying down in the grass.
The Sleeper
1974
8.0Begins with scenes of nature, in which one hears the sounds of birds and water. The final few minutes of the film focus in on a man laying down in the grass.
The Sleeper
1974
4.6Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1973
4.6Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1973
4.8In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes, their sadness. Between Mr. Michel, very shy, Mrs. Lebris, a former actress, a former colonial soldier and a few others, a project was soon born. They arm themselves and organize a manhunt from which, voluntarily, no one will come out alive.
The Goodbye Singing
1977
4.8In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes, their sadness. Between Mr. Michel, very shy, Mrs. Lebris, a former actress, a former colonial soldier and a few others, a project was soon born. They arm themselves and organize a manhunt from which, voluntarily, no one will come out alive.
The Goodbye Singing
1977
4.8In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes, their sadness. Between Mr. Michel, very shy, Mrs. Lebris, a former actress, a former colonial soldier and a few others, a project was soon born. They arm themselves and organize a manhunt from which, voluntarily, no one will come out alive.
The Goodbye Singing
1977
A writer goes through a prolonged ritual of preparation but is unable to put a word on paper.
Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin
1968
A writer goes through a prolonged ritual of preparation but is unable to put a word on paper.
Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin
1968
A writer goes through a prolonged ritual of preparation but is unable to put a word on paper.
Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin
1968
Life flashes before a soldier's eyes in his moment of death
Flash Back
1985
A deserted soldier takes refuge among the peasants.
Le Soldat et les Trois Sœurs
1972
A crew works to build a crane camera rail system in the countryside
Puzzle
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A little girl's witness to womanhood.
Lipstick
1999
8.0A documentary about the Parisian night club “Bus Palladium”. This film was theatrically released as a complement for Godard's Masculin, féminin.
Tenebrae factae sunt
1965
8.0A documentary about the Parisian night club “Bus Palladium”. This film was theatrically released as a complement for Godard's Masculin, féminin.
Tenebrae factae sunt
1965
7.0Jesus tries to impress at the Last Supper with some miracles but his final parlor trick does not end the way he would like.
Les Miracles de la Cène
1988
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Le voyage de Monsieur Guitton
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A man travels through time and space in search of the woman with the violoncello.
La Trajectoire amoureuse
1988
This film takes place in the year 2033, where society consists of obese women who visit an agency that provides interactive fantasies. The film focuses on one particular woman, Alice, and her fantasy.
Alice et les Abysses
1993
A woman feeling weak goes to see her doctor who asks her to undress.
Chez le médecin
1987
A worker daydreams while in the bathroom
Les Petits Coins
1986
In 1972, what does making a film mean? How does a movie make? What is the relationship between the producer of shows and the spectator? How does meaning travel in the story? These are the questions posed and proposed by the film.
Faire la déménageuse
1972