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Jean-Claude Biette

Jean-Claude Biette

Directing

Biography

Jean-Claude Biette (6 November 1942 – 10 June 2003) was a French filmmaker.

Known For

The Mother and the Whore
7.3

Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.

The Mother and the Whore

1973
A Tale of Winter
7.0

Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.

A Tale of Winter

1992
Oedipus Rex
6.8

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Oedipus that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…

Oedipus Rex

1967
Céline and Julie Go Boating
6.8

Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.

Céline and Julie Go Boating

1974
The Garden That Tilts
6.7

Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approaches her but fails to kill her. Instead, he falls in love and becomes her lover ...

The Garden That Tilts

1975
The Adolescent
8.0

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.

The Adolescent

2001
India Song
6.4

Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.

India Song

1975
Mange ta soupe
6.5

A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him.

Mange ta soupe

1997
Three Bridges on the River
7.3

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Having just made up with Claire, he decides to take her along. She's an ideal travel companion and it seems their relationship has not yet exhausted its potential. But moving from Lisbon to Oporto, their fantasy of a second honeymoon clashes with the reality of a world on the verge of a nightmare.

Three Bridges on the River

1999
The Theatre of the Matters
7.0

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.

The Theatre of the Matters

1977
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
7.2

The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.

Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert

1976
Suzanne’s Career
6.5

In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.

Suzanne’s Career

1963
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
4.9

The ex-wife of a famous sculptor convinces her lover to remove one of his sculptures from an exhibition and replace it with a live model.

The Adventures of Sylvia Couski

1975
Far from Manhattan
7.8

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery.

Far from Manhattan

1982
Pornoscopie
N/A

The tribulations of a bisexual who's a bit of an exhibitionist.

Pornoscopie

1983
No image
5.8

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, there is a net of family members, friends, and acquaintances who seem to swirl around the banking brothers. Frederic and Bruno are both trying to control the future of their beautiful niece, Vanessa. The coffee shop owners Eve and Jim complicate everybody's life with their intrigues and lies. A strange stage director comes from his foreign exile. And lack of funds suddenly reveals the true colors of everyone - in banking, on stage, and everywhere.

Saltimbank

2003
The Carpathian Mushroom
5.3

A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an actress.

The Carpathian Mushroom

1990
The Complex of Toulon
6.3

It is due to some professional obligations that brothers Charles and Fredi turn their attention to theater. Charles, an actor does not want Fredi to write a book on him.

The Complex of Toulon

1996
Open Season
7.3

A "three people relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.

Open Season

1993
Salò: Yesterday and Today
5.0

A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.

Salò: Yesterday and Today

2002