Jean-Daniel Pollet is a poet that uses cinema to create his own poetry. Above all, he has a sensitive glance, I�d say, on colours. Most of his films, in which he releases the game of inspiration where colour prevails, prove that he is an unfeigned and spontaneous painter. All this becomes cinema. But, first and foremost, it is poetry. There is a great relevance between cinema that is perceived as a positive misbelieve, the voice and all we can imagine.

(Philippe Sollers / Surpris par la nuit)

Why do the ruins of Palmyra, of Balbec, of Egypt attract me so? Why do I get carried away? Why can�t life, everyday life carry me away? What should I answer? There is something unchanging there, whereas life is made of tragedies. There is no tragedy there. There�s just us there. In Bassae, I find �us� again. It�s a bit hard to find what this and a broken jug have in common. There�s no �us� in the jug. The jug is broken. Why do I like it better broken than whole? Let�s just leave this mystery be, because if I knew exactly what to say, I would be a rationalist, I would make rationalistic film, that would speak of such things that would probably not interest anyone anymore...

(Jean-Daniel Pollet, Tours d�horizons, Editions de l��il 2005)

Soon as I crossed the little yugoslavian bar and right after the little greek one, I had a sudden glimpse of my life. I was born here, I was born in this country. Why? Maybe because of the music played in a nearby juke-box, maybe because of something else, I never found out, but I said: this is my country as much as my own country itself.

(Jean-Daniel Pollet, Surpris par la nuit)

Φιλμογραφία Filmography

2001 Ceux d�en face, 90�

1997 Dieu sait quoi, 90�

1991 Trois Jours en Gr�ce, 84�

Contre-courant, 8�

1990 L�Arbre et le Soleil: Mas-Felipe Delavou�t et son pays, 73�

1989 Contretemps, 105�

1986 Au P�re-Lachaise, 13�

1978-1980 Afrique (lost)

Pour M�moire (La Forge), 61�

1976 L�Acrobate, 101�

. Pascale et Madi (lost)

1974 L�Ordre, 42�

1972 Le Sang, 85�

1971 L�amour c�est gai, l�amour c�est triste, 95�

Le Ma�tre du Temps, 90�

1968 Les Morutiers, 20�

La Femme aux cent visages, 10�

Tu imagines Robinson, 87�

1967 Le Horla, 38�

Le Soleil et l�Ombre, 62�

Dim Dam Dom, Les Mari�s de Robinson (or Mariages � Robinson), 16�

Dim Dam Dom, Chez Georges et Rosy (or Cours de danse), 9�

Dim Dam Dom, Six robes longues sur la glace (or Les Robes sur la glace, ou La Patinoire), 10�

Dim Dam Dom, Les Femmes au bain, 10�

Dim Dam Dom, Les Gifles au cin�ma (or T�tes � claques), 10�

Dim Dam Dom, Les Baisers au cin�ma, 10�

Dim Dam Dom, Les Femmes dans le western (or Mini-Western), 10�

1966 Une Balle au c�ur, 93�

1965 Rue Saint-Denis, 12�

1964 Bass�, 9�

1963 M�diterran�e, 44�

L�on dans les Fleurs du Mal (lost)

1961 Gala, 19�

1960 La Ligne de mire, 70�

1958 Pourvu qu�on ait l�ivresse, 21�