Jean Rollin

The story of French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010), one of the most singular voices of European cult cinema, deeply misunderstood and widely misrepresented.

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The story of the French fantasy cinema from Méliès to Raw.

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Who is Jean Rollin? A man who has spent his childhood in the middle of some of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. An artist who has worked with Marguerite Duras for his first film. A director's career singular and unique in French cinema, with films overtly fantastic, surreal, poetic - disconcerting. A filmmaker has always murdered by the critics but starting, finally, to enjoy some recognition in France, while many fans worship him already in Europe and the United States. Jean Rollin signs a marginal and unknown work marked by death and nostalgia, and whose main obsession is the time, that of the wandering and dreams. Jean Rollin died in December 2010 at the age of 72. This documentary is the portrait of a real artist, the last surrealist, a poet who created his very own dreamworld. A tribute for a unique director, with testimonials from his closest collaborators.

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A discussion between Jean Rollin and Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

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Eurotika is a Channel 4 documentary film on European exploitation cinema. The documentary is similarly themed to Pete Tombs's book Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984. During the 1960s and 1970s, European low-budget films went kinky, emerging as a new type of cinema that blended eroticism, surrealism, horror, and over-the-top atmospherics.

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Between the first stripping of Brigitte Bardot, at the end of the 1950s, and the beginning of the 1980s, French cinema developed a certain taste for eroticism and pornography.

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The likes of Antoine de Caunes, Jean Paul Gaultier, Davina McCall, and Lolo Ferrari are your guides to the weird and wonderful in Europe and beyond. How else would you learn about pubic hairdressers, the Penis Olympics, or the latest Japanese sex toys?

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Two cops try to stop a mysterious serial killer dubbed "Car Woman" after the toy car she always leaves next to her victims in this surreal slasher.

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Year 2004. Not knowing how to run an abominable criminal recidivist while the death penalty has been abolished, FBI experts and lawyers condemned the imagine embarking on a journey through time To a time when the sentence still applied. For financial reasons, this expedition is coupled with a scientific mission on the planet Terra and charge of tracing the first dinosaurs. They do exist, and while the crew was launched in pursuit of the prisoner at large. Their members must live and face the horror of these blood-thirsty monsters ...!

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Major Taylor creates a super-soldier who goes rogue due to his insatiable lust for 'girls' and runs amok in the French countryside.

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Dr. Herbert East is working in his uncle's clinic and experimenting with brain transplants.

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In 1990, Jean Rollin was hired to transform some footage Jesús Franco had shot in 1971 into a new jungle adventure film. Rollin gave up after a few days of shooting in a Madrid hotel garden. The film remains an unreleased short curiosity.

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On the run from an asylum for the insane, two girls embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.

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In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.

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Jean-Claude (Dominique Saint-Claire) is busy in bed with Lucie Doll when her husband pops in after his day's work, and sends him to hospital. From now on, we forget all ideas of a story since there will be none. Just a series of short 'vaudevillesque' scenes such as: Cyril Val (Docteur Rollin) trying to perform enema on every hole he can approach; a very caring nurse Sophie Duflot who also happens to be the Head Doctor's little darling-of-a-nurse and assistant, and teaches a pussy how to smoke with Elodie Delage who comes across a squeaking penis in a corridor...

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A young girl arrives unannounced at his uncle to celebrate her birthday, as he is not free, she holds a very special evening with friends of his uncle.

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A disco band shows up at a studio to make a new album, but they are badly mobbed by a bunch of female groupies. A big orgy breaks out that postpones the recording session.

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A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.

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Amours Collectives starts out as libertarian porn, but ends up more like direct cinema, in which the film itself functions as its own making-of! Witty, salacious scenes follow one after another, with the director more or less becoming the central character.

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Frédéric sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.

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An evil count lures beautiful women to his castle, there to imprison them in his torture chamber for his amusement.

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Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

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A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.

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After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.

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Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

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Frédéric Charruault, loyal reader of Médusa Fanzine, had produced in 1994, a short documentary on the cinemas of Paris (the Brady, theTrianon, the Paris-cinema) which has just been archived at the Toulouse cinematheque. The opportunity to rediscover the atmosphere of these legendary rooms today.

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A young woman inherits the house of Jean Michel but she is haunted by strange dreams and numbers. She has no idea that this is the beginning of the 'the night of clocks', which opened for those who have sinned, the dead which are not dead...

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A pair of teenage girls, who are blind by day, but when the sun goes down, they roam the streets to quench their thirst for blood.

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We see a Rolls-Royce ride into the country, with a young orphan named Eva, accompanied by her uncle and aunt. They go to the man, she just married, but do not know yet. This man, Sir Remy, is a widower, surrounded by guests and staff lives in a castle, in the memory of his former wife, Mathilde, whose perfect doppelganger Eve. He believes still smell Mathilde's perfume in his castle. Mathilde added Remy in the past torments to by all men gave himself who so wished. In order to avenge the memory of his late wife, he leaves the young Eve in a ceremony publicly humiliate. The innocent Eva proves to be a reincarnation of the late Mathilde.

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A dreamy film in which two women are transported from a beach in France to New York City. Separated and lost, they frantically search for one another.

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Journey with Emmanuelle and the world's most excuisite models deep into the Venezuelan Amazon jungle to the heart of paradise. Beauty can be dangerous and the women soon find themselves captive to a powerful drug lord. Now they must escape from a land of darkness

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A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.

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On the run from an asylum for the insane, two girls embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.

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A woman with no memories runs in fear through the night when she is rescued by a man passing by. They will both have to figure out who her mysterious enemies are and what they want to achieve.

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A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.

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A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.

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Barbara Moose lounges by the pool waiting for the guests to arrive for a party.

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Mirna is learning a script when Willy arrives home. Meanwhile, other couples come to search for the manuscript.

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Amours Collectives starts out as libertarian porn, but ends up more like direct cinema, in which the film itself functions as its own making-of! Witty, salacious scenes follow one after another, with the director more or less becoming the central character.

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Martine an erotic writer has borrowed her publisher’s house in the country to finish writing her book in peace and quiet. But the inspiration is just not there. She receives intimate information about some of the nearby hotel’s weekend guests.

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Two young couples live together in a house, and face a miserable holiday, because they are broke. The girls then have the bright idea to turn their house into a sex club to host orgies for paying customers.

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Frédéric sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.

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An evil count lures beautiful women to his castle, there to imprison them in his torture chamber for his amusement.

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A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.

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Valérie, who has just begun housesitting for her cousin, enjoys a debaucherous night with her girlfriend Sophie, who is later mistakenly abducted overnight by members of a sex cult searching for a traitor amongst their ranks.

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Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

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A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.

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Two girls on the run get lost in the French countryside, and wind up in a haunted chateau occupied by an ailing vampire and his servants.

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A newlywed couple travels to a small town to visit the bride's cousins—her last two surviving relatives—at the castle where they live, only to discover that the cousins have just died and the castle is now inhabited by vampires.

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A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire.

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After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.

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