Jean-Pierre Mocky was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer who made over 40 films.
Trailer of Solo (1969) with a soundtrack by Georges Moustaki.
Tag Archives: French cinema
RIP Édith “Eyes Without a Face” Scob (1937 – 2019)
Édith Scob was a French actress best-known for Eyes Without a Face (1959) in which she played a horribly disfigured young woman wearing a mask and whose dad, a surgeon, is going to provide her with a face transplant, an instance of the the mad doctor and new flesh plot.
In Holy Motors, Scob wears an near-identical mask.
Eyes Without a Face (1959), best scenes set to music by Aalborg Soundtracks
Holy Motors (2012), trailer
Summer Hours (2008), trailer
RIP Maurice Bénichou (1943 – 2019)
Maurice Bénichou was a French actor, best-known internationally for his part in Amélie. His other work includes three collaborations with director Michael Haneke (Code Unknown, Time of the Wolf, and Caché). He has also played in Peter Brook’s 6 hour film version of The Mahabharata.
The death of Bénichou may be a good occasion to dive into the work of Haneke, one of the more interesting of contemporary directors.
Majid (Bénichou) committing suicide in Caché.
Bretodeau (Bénichou) receiving a phone call and his youth treasures in a box in Amélie.
Unnamed character (Bénichou) defending Binoche from sexual aggressors in Code Unknown.
RIP Jean-Pierre Marielle (1932 – 2019)
Jean-Pierre Marielle was a French actor.
I have very warm recollections of the film Coup de Torchon (1981).
In the scene above Marielle is shot by Noiret.
There is a complete version of the film … Comme la lune (1977), a period piece of 1970s French mores.