Jean-Baptiste Thierree Movies
- 1970
This three part film begins with "Trap", a neurotic sadist sets traps all over his house and invites two female burglars to visit. In the macabre "Marie and the Priest", a priest kills a woman he has impregnated and removes the fetus before baptizing then killing it. The horrifying story is based on an actual incident. Part three is "The River of Diamonds", where an amoral young woman preys on young men in a symbolic display of her independence. The three stories combine to tell a diverse and starling revelation about morality and the human psyche. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean-Baptiste Thierree, Bernadette Lafont, (more)
- 1963
Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European movie-industry input. Guy Bedos, a Brando wannabe, plays one of several young French cineastes who take to the streets to make improvisational movies. The "cinema verite" quality of the film is somewhat undercut by the presence of major stars: Anna Karina, Simone Signoret, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Monica Vitti, Claude Brasseur, and many others. After several "spontaneous" vignettes -- a street tennis game, a striptease lesson, a West Side Story style gang rumble -- Guy Bedos announces he will go to Hollywood to film the life of Voltaire. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Guy Bedos, Sophie Daumier, (more)
Alain Resnais's third feature film, like his earlier Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, is devoted to the vagaries of memory. The title character is seen only in the 8-millimeter films run over and over again by Bernard (Jean-Baptiste Thierée). A veteran of the French/Algerian war, Bernard was obliged to participate in the torture murder of Muriel, an Algerian girl accused of sabotage. He is no more successful at recapturing or altering his past than is his stepmother Helene (Delphine Seyrig), who attempts to rekindle a romance with Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kerien). Practically everyone else in the cast follows the lead of the leads by dwelling on Things Past to the detriment of the Present. Resnais' scriptwriter on Muriel ou le Temps d'un Retou was Jean Cayrol, whose earlier collaboration with the director yielded the celebrated short subject Night and Fog. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kerien, (more)
