Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

530 • JARDIN, FRÉDÉRIC
later (1989 Bille en Tête, Carlo Cotti). Credits (as
co-screenwriter): 1991 Gawin (Arnaud Sélignac); Les
Clés du Paradis (also actor, Philippe de Broca); 1994 Le
Jardin des Plantes / USA: Tales from the Zoo (Philippe de
Broca). His novel Le Zèbre was brought to the screen
in 1992 by Jean Poiret. His brother, Frédéric Jardin, is
also a fi lm director.
Filmography
1993 Fanfan (also original novel, co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1996 Oui (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor)
2000 Le Prof (also original novel, screenwriter, dialogist)
JARDIN, FRÉDÉRIC (May 24, 1968, Paris, France–)
The son of novelist and screenwriter Pascal Jardin
and brother of novelist and fi lmmaker Alexandre Jardin,
he studied political science in Paris and graduated
with a degree in English from Cambridge University.
He entered fi lms as an assistant director (1991 Allemagne
90 Neuf Zéro / USA: Germany Year 90 Nine Zero,
Jean-Luc Godard; 1992 Amoureuse, Jacques Doillon;
Un Cœur en Hiver / UK: A Heart in Winter / USA: Heart
of Stone, Claude Sautet; 1993 Hélas pour moi / USA:
Alas for Me / Oh, Woe Is Me, Jean-Luc Godard, France
/ Switzerland). He appeared as an actor in 1999 Chico
notre Homme à Lisbonne (short, Edouard Baer), 2005
Akoibon (Edouard Baer), and 2007 Pars vite et reviens
tard (Régis Wargnier).
Filmography
1994 La Folie douce (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2000 Les Frères Sœur (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
shot in 1998)
2002 Cravate Club (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
JASPARD, ALAIN (September 1, 1940, Marseille,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
Having been discharged from his military service (two
years in Algeria), he became an assistant director
(Henri Verneuil, Alex Joffé, Pierre Kast, Gilles Grangier).
After shooting many commercials, he directed his fi rst
comedy (La Frisée aux Lardons). A globe-trotter for
ten years, he traveled across South America, Asia, and
Africa shooting many TV documentaries and reports.
He returned to France in the late 1980s and dedicated
himself to animated cinema.
Filmography
1979 La Frisée aux Lardons (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist)
Les Givrés
Television Filmography
1989 Kimboo (animation; 48 5'; also co-screenwriter)
1994 Léa et Gaspard (animation; 26 5'; also coscreenwriter)
1996 Les Contes de la Rue Broca (animation; 26
13'; co-director with Claude Allix)
1998 Tom-Tom et Nana (animation; 52 5')
1999 La Sorcière Camomille (animation; 52 5')
La Belle lisse Poire du Prince de Motordu (animation)
2001 Le Prince et le Pauvre (animated short; also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
2005 Le Proverbe (animated short)
JASSET, VICTORIN (Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset /
March 30, 1862, Fumay, Ardennes, France–June 22,
1913, Paris, France)
A pupil of the sculptor Dalou, he was devoted to fan
painting and was a costume designer before directing
pantomimes and ballets. He also created costumes
and drew the poster for a historical show, Vercingétorix,
which opened the Place Clichy’s racecourse in
1900. He met future director Georges Hatot, who recruited
extras for the show. Hatot introduced him to
Pathé, where he spent some time before being hired
by Gaumont as an assistant director (co-director?),
production designer, and costume designer (1906 La
Vie du Christ / La Naissance, la Vie et la Mort de Notre-
Seigneur / La Passion / USA: The Birth, the Life and
Death of Jesus Christ, Alice Guy). He and Hatot joined
a new production company, L’Eclipse, in 1906, then he
created the fi rst French fi lm serial (Nick Carter) for
another society, L’éclair. In 1910, he ended his collaboration
with Hatot and became an artistic manager for
L’éclair. In June 1913, he had to interrupt the shooting
of his adaptation of Jules Verne’s The Children of Captain
Grant to undergo a surgical operation and died of
complications thereof at age fi fty-one.
Filmography
1905 Esmeralda (short; co-director with Alice Guy)
1906 Les Rêves du Fumeur d’Opium (short)
1907 Baignade—Sauts de Tremplin, Match de Water-
Polo (short)