Jacques Baratier

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Jacques Baratier, 1993

Jacques Albert Marie Jean Baratier (born March 8, 1918 in Montpellier , France , † November 27, 2009 in Antony , France) was a French film director , screenwriter and film producer .

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Baratier was to study law at the request of his father, a banker, and graduated with his license in 1938. Then he was drafted into the military and served with the aviators in what was then the French colony of Morocco. After the war ended in 1945, Baratier mingled with well-known Parisian artists (poets, painters, musicians), where he made the decision to try his hand at painting and then returned to North Africa. In the Sahara desert , Baratier came across a French film crew who were filming the adventure story L'escadron blanc . Fascinated by this medium, Baratier asked to work on the shooting as an assistant director. Jacques Baratier remained assistant director for a short time, but began at the same time (1948) to direct his own short films. His short film The Night in Paris was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlinale .

With his feature film debut Goha , made in Tunisia in 1957 , Baratier landed a great success at the Cannes Film Festival the following year and even received the Jury Prize. In addition, with this film he presented the up-and-coming mime Omar Sharif to an international audience for the first time, who was completely unknown outside of Egypt . The native Tunisian Claudia Cardinale , who was to become an international star in the following decade, also played a supporting role as a domestic servant in Goha . It was also Cardinale's first full-length feature film.

Baratier's output in the coming decades remained sparse and at times eclectic in nature. The star-studded, reflective film parody Bonbons mit Pfeffer (1963) was followed by the bizarre aristocratic comedy L'or du duc , the satire La ville bidon and finally the initiation story with soft sex elements. Are you interested in the matter? , which became a notable box office success internationally. Baratier's very inconsistent oeuvre (including documentaries), which at times was a bit bulky and did not meet the mass taste, meant that, although he belonged to the filmmaker generation around the Nouvelle Vague , Baratier was never a highly respected cult director like for example his colleagues Louis Malle , François Truffaut , Claude Chabrol and Jean-Luc Godard . The majority of his work was not given particular attention and rarely found a loan abroad.

From the mid-1970s he was barely given the opportunity to stage. Jacques Baratier, who occasionally appeared in front of the camera in his own films as well as in productions by colleagues such as Jacques Demy ( The Girls from Rochefort ) and Jane Birkin (Boxes) , died at the age of 91 while he was doing another film, Le Beau Désordre , staged. This work remained unfinished.

Filmography

  • 1948: Les Filles du soleil (short film)
  • 1949: Désordre (short film, also screenplay)
  • 1951: La Cité du midi (short film)
  • 1952: La Vie du vide (short film)
  • 1954: Histoire du Palais ideal (short film)
  • 1955: Pablo Casals (short documentary film)
  • 1956: The Night in Paris (Paris la nuit) (short film, also screenplay)
  • 1957: Goha
  • 1962: The doll (La poupée) (also production)
  • 1963: Bonbons with pepper (Dragées au poivre) (also co-script)
  • 1964: Èves Futures (short film, also screenplay)
  • 1965: L'Or du duc (also screenplay)
  • 1967: Le Désordre à vingt ans (documentary film)
  • 1968: René Claire (TV documentary)
  • 1969: Les Indiens (short film)
  • 1970: The Trap (Piège) (also co-script)
  • 1971: La Ville bidon (also co-script and film role)
  • 1973: Are you interested in the matter? (Vous intéressez-vous à la chose?) (Also co-script and film role)
  • 1975: Opération séduction (short film, also screenplay)
  • 1983: L'Araignée de Satin (also co-script, film role and production, WP: 1986)
  • 2003: Rien, voilà l'ordre (also co-script)
  • 2009: Le Beau Désordre (unfinished)

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personal data
SURNAME Baratier, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baratier, Jacques Albert Marie Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier , France
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2009
Place of death Antony , France