Pierre EtaixFilmography

Born:: November 23, 1928 in Roanne (Loire), France
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Pierre Etaix has worn many hats during his long show-business career. He has been a mime, a circus performer, cabaret artist, screenwriter, filmmaker, instructor and more. Born in Roanne, France, Etaix started out as a painter. He began in film as a production assistant in 1949, and during the...Read More

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Otar Iosseliani, The Whistling Blackbird

Actors: Otar Iosseliani, William Lubtchansky, Martine Mariganc, Manu de Chauvigny, Narda de Blanchet

Synopsis: Though far better known in Europe than in the United States, Eastern European director Otar Iosseliani (who hails from Georgia) claims a bevy of international awards and a devoted fanbase, and commands a formidable amount of respect in film circles for his meticulous cinematic craftsmanship. Read More

2007
Henry & June

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Richard E. Grant, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis: The real-life relationship between two of the most controversial literary figures of the 20th century forms the basis for this drama. Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a struggling author trying to finish her first book, a study of the work of D.H. Lawrence. She also has a keen sexual curiosity Read More

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J'ecris Dans L'Espace

Crew: Director

1989
L'Age De Monsieur Est Avance

Crew: Director, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Carmet, Nicole Calfan, Pierre Etaix

Synopsis: An author (Pierre Etaix), an actress (Nicole Calfan) and a stage manager (Jean Carmet) star in this plotless story about the preparation of a new play. Scenes of the audience are inserted to move along this story within a story. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Max, Mon Amour

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Diana Quick, Christopher Hovik, Milena Vukotic

Synopsis: Fabled Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima was the guiding hand behind the fast-paced French comedy Max, Mon Amour. The "Max" with whom the elegant Charlotte Rampling falls in love is a circus chimpanzee (played by a short-statured man in a monkey suit). Charlotte's British-ambassador husband Anthony Read More

1986
Serieux Comme le Plaisir

Actors: Jane Birkin, Richard Leduc, Georges Mansart, Michel Lonsdale, Roland Dubillard

Synopsis: In Serieux Comme le Plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant Read More

1974
Pays de Cocagne

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This is a somewhat derisive documentary that examines French vacation habits and how the French make and respond to publicity. Among the items shown is an amateur singing contest. This is a French language film with no subtitles or dubbing. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
The Clowns

Actors: Riccardo Billi, Fanfulla

Synopsis: The culmination of filmmaker Federico Fellini's lifelong love affair with circus folk was his 1971 The Clowns (I clowns). Fellini's alter ego this time is a young boy, taking in his first circus (again, we're treated to the "parade" motif so often utilized by the director). As the clowns go Read More

12/27/70
Le Grand Amour

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Etaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan, Ketty France

Synopsis: A young man nervously waits in a church on his wedding day. His daydream splashes time forward 10 years as he finds himself married and working for his father-in-law. He has a brief but profound affair with a new secretary before returning to his wife. His nocturnal dreams have his bed taking off Read More

1969
Le Voleur

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: Louis Malle directed this light comedy about crime and class in the City of Light. Georges Randal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a young man living in Paris at the turn of the century who is due to inherit a considerable fortune. However, his uncle, who is acting as his guardian, manages to spend Read More

1967
Tant Qu' On A La Sante

Crew: Director

Actors: Pierre Etaix, Denise Peronne, Véra Belmont

Synopsis: Pierre Etaix directed and starred in this comedy that offers an offbeat look at seemingly normal situations. A physician finds himself even more stressed and sickly than his patients. Another scene finds an idyllic campground being run like a concentration camp complete with barbed wire. There are Read More

1966
Yoyo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Etaix, Claudine Auger

Synopsis: This Tatiesque French comedy stars popular comedian/filmmaker Pierre Etaix as Yo Yo, a 1920s tycoon who, though surrounded by many fabulous things and though living in a grand old castle, is still unhappy for pining over his long-lost love, a beautiful circus performer. One day he sees her again. Read More

1965
Le Soupirant

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Etaix, Laurence Ligneres, Claude Massot

Synopsis: The quest for love gets a farcical French treatment in this lighthearted romp, the sophomore directorial effort from writer and star Pierre Etaix. Etaix plays Pierre, a shy youth under pressure from his mother to find a nice girl and settle down. In order to appease her, Pierre proposes marriage Read More

1963
Heureux Anniversaire

Crew: Director, Producer

1962
Rupture

Actors: Pierre Etaix

1961
Pickpocket

Actors: Martin Lasalle, Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie, Pierre Etaix, Jean Pelegri

Synopsis: Director Robert Bresson chose Uruguayan nonactor Martin LaSalle for his leading man in Pickpocket. LaSalle's inexperience works against the film for some viewers, though Bresson himself was satisfied because his star proved himself a quick study in the art of lifting wallets (a genuine pickpocket Read More

1959
Mon Oncle

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Alain Becourt, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis

Synopsis: Five years after his first appearance, Jacques Tati's M. Hulot returns with Mon Oncle, a film set along the dividing line between Paris' past and its future. Aligned (as is the film) with the former, Hulot lives in a colorful, overpopulated Parisian neighborhood and, lacking employment, spends his Read More

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