Jean-Pierre Mocky

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Born: July 6, 1929 – August 8, 2019
From: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
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Biography

Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, including some of those he also directed (Solo, L'albatros, L'Ombre d'une chance, Un Linceul n'a pas de poches). His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. He began as an actor in the cinema and theater. In particular, he played in Jean Dréville's Les Casse-pieds (1948), Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Bernard Borderie's The Mask of the Gorilla (1957). But it was especially in Italy that he became famous, thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni. After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso (1954) and Federico Fellini on La strada (1954), he wrote his first film, La Tête contre les murs (1959) and planned to direct it himself, but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju. He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs (1959). Since then, he has never stopped shooting. As early as the 1960s, he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner (1963) and La Grande Lessive (1968). After May 1968, he turned to darker films with Solo (1969), in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left, then L'Albatros (1971) which shows the corruption of politicians. In the 1980s, he returned to success with a film denouncing, a year before the drama of Heysel, the excesses of some football fans (À mort l'arbitre, 1984) and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes (Le Miraculé, 1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, his films met with less success, but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm. In the beginning, his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society. Later, he concentrated on farce, as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex (Michel Serrault) pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline (Claude Jade) in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives. Mocky's cinema, often satirical and pamphleteer, is generally inspired by the truth of society. He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly. He worked with Bourvil (A Funny Parishioner, The City of Unspeakable Fear, La Grande Lessive and The Stallion), Fernandel (The Exchange and Life), Michel Simon (The Red Ibis), Michel Serrault (twelve films including Le Miraculé), Francis Blanche (five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear), Jacqueline Maillan (five films), Jean Poiret (eight films) and with the stars Catherine Deneuve (Agent Trouble), Claude Jade (Bonsoir), Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir), Jeanne Moreau (Le Miraculé) and Stéphane Audran (The Seasons of Pleasure). In 2010, he received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him. He died on 8 August 2019. Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Mocky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

91 films

Ville à vendre

19925.2

The Mask of the Gorilla

19586.1

Orpheus

19507.6

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma

2010

The Count of Monte Cristo

19546.7

First Name: Carmen

19836.0

Godard Mon Amour

20176.6

À votre bon cœur, mesdames

20135.0

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Illicit Motherhood

19533.0

Vénéneuses

20175.0

A Night at a Honeymoon

195010.0

Dreams of Love

19477.0

The Albatross

19717.2

Senso

19547.2

Le Bridge

1986

Robin des mers

19986.0

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

19636.6

Agent trouble

19875.6

Kill the Referee

19845.5

The Vanquished

19536.4

Stain on the Snow

19536.3

Le glandeur

20007.0

Looping

2014

Le mystère des jonquilles

20143.6

Monsieur Cauchemar

20154.0

Les Ballets écarlates

20072.6

Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)

2008

Aznavour by Charles

20196.9

Calomnies

20145.0

Le piège à cons

19794.3

Foutraque (!)

2026

At the Grand Balcony

19496.7

Leon's Husband

19938.0

Tout est calme

20003.7

Speaking of Murder

19576.4

La bête de miséricorde

20016.8

Droit de Réponse

19818.3

Americano

20114.9

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

20097.0

No Pockets in a Shroud

19745.4

The Vertical Smile

19738.0

Head Against the Wall

19596.8

Is There a Frenchman in the House?

19825.3

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

19866.3

Abandoned

19557.0

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

20107.2

The Unsewing Machine

19864.9

Bourvil, un homme vrai

20166.0

Solo

19706.1

La loi de l'albatros

2017

Queen's Necklace

19464.0

La parallèle Mocky

20186.0

Mocky sans Mocky

2019

Litan

19826.0

The Spice of Life

19485.8

The Eternal Husband

19467.6

Keep an Eye on Amelia

19496.5

God Needs Men

19506.5

Snobs!

19626.0

Bibi Fricotin

19515.7

Portrait of a Murderer

19495.9

Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental

20236.8

The Big Flag

19549.0

Shadow of a Chance

19744.3

Tu es si jolie ce soir

2015

Graziella

19548.0

Cocktail Morlock

1981

Les Compagnons de la pomponnette

20156.0

Two Pennies Worth of Violets

19514.7

La Candide Madame Duff

20003.6

The Hell of Lost Pilots

19499.0

Long Live Liberty

19468.0

Les Insomniaques

20116.0

Les araignées de la nuit

200210.0

Divine enfant

19897.0

La Cabane aux souvenirs

19478.0

Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here!

20234.5

Éternel espoir

19527.0

Putain de lune

2013

Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible

2017

The Making of Litan

1982

Un risque à courir

20096.0

Rendez-vous

2026

Le Mentor

20132.0

The Story of French Fantasy Cinema

20196.0

Votez pour moi !

2017

Dossier Toroto

2011

Vidange

19984.3

Il gèle en enfer

19906.0

Tous flics !

2023