Janine. 1961. Directed by Maurice Pialat Un couple. 1960. Directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky

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Janine. 1961. France. Directed by Maurice Pialat. DCP. In French; English subtitles. 16 min.

Based on a screenplay by future producer (and brother-in-law of the director) Claude Berri, this early short by the then-unknown filmmaker Maurice Pialat (Loulou, Van Gogh) is set in the Saint-Denis district of Paris. What at first seems to be a story too clever for its own good, about a pair of ignorant men, instead becomes the documentary-inflected portrait en creux of a liberated woman ahead of her time. Digital restoration courtesy Les Films du Jeudi

Un couple. 1960. France. Directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky. Screenplay by Mocky, Raymond Queneau. With Juliette Mayniel, Jean Kosta, Christian Duvaleix. 85 min.

Mocky’s second film caused a scandal for its sexual candor, the grown-up portrait of a romantic couple almost unheard of at the time. With eccentric secondary characters invented by the great Raymond Queneau (Zazie dans le métro), the film remains daring in its repudiation of repressive bourgeois mores. Courtesy Cine Patrimoine Concept

This film accompanies Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave.

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