Pierre Étaix
Birthday: 1928-11-23
Place of Birth: Roanne, Loire, France
Biography: Pierre Étaix was a French comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of short- and feature-length films, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He won an Academy Award for best live-action short film in 1963.
Movies
Pickpocket
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...
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The Clowns
Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a ch...
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The Suitor
Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and...
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Chantrapas
A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired ...
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Le Havre
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Ma...
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Yoyo
The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in ...
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As Long as You've Got Your Health
An anthology film consisting of four stories. (1) A man reads a Dracula novel while in bed, but cann...
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Carrière, 250 Meters
A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre...
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Land of Milk and Honey
Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his care...
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Le Grand Amour
Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss,...
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A Swelled Head
A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to...
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Happy Anniversary
Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife imp...
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Rupture
A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pa...
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Docile Night
Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her wi...
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Bouvard et Pécuchet
Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a co...
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L'âge de Monsieur est avancé
Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up g...
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Gardens in Autumn
When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistr...
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Mon Oncle
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and can...
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Feeling Good
Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (19...
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Winter Song
Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat....
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The Clown
A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried"....
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Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix....
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Doctor Lerne, Subgod
A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also...
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Insomnia
French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself t...
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Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing ...
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On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge
It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it....
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The Army Game
Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few st...
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Serious as Pleasure
Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy...
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The Thief of Paris
In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inhe...
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From Darkness to Light
Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, ...
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