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

First Name: Carmen

19836.0

The Mask of the Gorilla

19586.1

Orpheus

19507.6

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma

2010

The Count of Monte Cristo

19546.7

À votre bon cœur, mesdames

20135.0

Godard Mon Amour

20176.6

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Senso

19547.2

Illicit Motherhood

19533.0

Kill the Referee

19845.5

A Night at a Honeymoon

195010.0

The Albatross

19717.2

Agent trouble

19875.6

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

19636.6

Vénéneuses

20175.0

Le Bridge

1986

Calomnies

20145.0

Robin des mers

19986.0

Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)

2008

Dreams of Love

19477.0

The Vanquished

19536.4

Monsieur Cauchemar

20154.0

Le piège à cons

19794.3

Le mystère des jonquilles

20143.6

Droit de Réponse

19818.3

Looping

2014

Speaking of Murder

19576.4

Aznavour by Charles

20196.9

Stain on the Snow

19536.3

Head Against the Wall

19596.8

Le glandeur

20007.0

Les Ballets écarlates

20072.6

No Pockets in a Shroud

19745.4

Leon's Husband

19938.0

La bête de miséricorde

20016.8

Tout est calme

20003.7

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

20107.2

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

20097.0

Americano

20114.9

Queen's Necklace

19464.0

Solo

19706.1

Foutraque (!)

2026

The Unsewing Machine

19864.9

Snobs!

19626.0

Mocky sans Mocky

2019

Litan

19826.0

Is There a Frenchman in the House?

19825.3

Shadow of a Chance

19744.3

The Vertical Smile

19738.0

Bourvil, un homme vrai

20166.0

God Needs Men

19506.5

Abandoned

19557.0

Keep an Eye on Amelia

19496.5

Two Pennies Worth of Violets

19514.7

The Hell of Lost Pilots

19499.0

Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental

20236.8

The Eternal Husband

19467.6

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

19866.3

La parallèle Mocky

20186.0

At the Grand Balcony

19496.7

Portrait of a Murderer

19495.9

Les araignées de la nuit

200210.0

Graziella

19548.0

Cocktail Morlock

1981

Les Compagnons de la pomponnette

20156.0

La Cabane aux souvenirs

19478.0

The Making of Litan

1982

Tu es si jolie ce soir

2015

Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here!

20234.5

La loi de l'albatros

2017

La Candide Madame Duff

20003.6

Les Insomniaques

20116.0

The Spice of Life

19485.8

The Big Flag

19549.0

Bibi Fricotin

19515.7

The Story of French Fantasy Cinema

20196.0

Long Live Liberty

19468.0

Le Mentor

20132.0

Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible

2017

Vidange

19984.3

Éternel espoir

19527.0

Tous flics !

2023

Rendez-vous

2026

Votez pour moi !

2017

Il gèle en enfer

19906.0

Un risque à courir

20096.0

Divine enfant

19897.0

Dossier Toroto

2011

Putain de lune

2013