Jacques Prévert
Birthday: 1900-02-04
Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Biography: Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945).
Movies
Ciboulette
Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulet...
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Dream of the Wild Horses
The horses in Denys Colomb Daunant’s dream poem are the white beasts of the marshlands of the Camarg...
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Paris la belle
A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 195...
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Bim, the Little Donkey
An Arab boy, Abdullah, loves his donkey, Bim, but another boy, Massoud, who also happens to be a pri...
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Prices and Profits, the Potato
Prix et Profits is a 20-minute short film originally made for educational purposes and released in 9...
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The Small Tent
Documentary filmed during the shooting of “À Valparaiso” which shows the children’s reactions to the...
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L'Âge d'or
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details ...
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L'Atalante
Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the ...
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Bulles de Vian
"Vian Bubbles" - On June 23, 2009, fifty years to the day after the death of Boris Vian, a supernatu...
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Life Begins Tomorrow
Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie ...
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It's in the Bag
Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put...
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