Movies by Jean-Daniel Pollet
Méditerranée
Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena.
Rue Saint-Denis
A lonely dishwasher hires a prostitute and brings her to his dingy apartment to enliven his dreary life for a night.
L'Arbre et le Soleil
This film is dedicated to Mas-Félipe Delavouët, the poet discovered by Lawrence Durrell, who wrote 14,000 verses in Provençal over a period of thirty years, and who died on November 18, 1990. "The sky, history and Mediterranean and Provençal myths are the inexhaustable wellspring of this man rooted down there, near Salon-de-Provence" (J.-D. Pollet). "Mas-Félipe Delavouët wrote five books in Provençal, 14,000 verses. A sort of "Odyssey". Of myths. What is stunning in him is that he always talks of disappearances. Cities, works, men, writings...
Le Maître du temps
An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.