Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

540 • JOLIVET, PIERRE-ALAIN
1989 Force majeure (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1991 Simple Mortel / USA: A Mere Mortal (also
screenwriter, dialogist)
1993 A l’Heure où les grands Fauves vont boire (also
co-screenwriter, dialogist, uncredited actor;
France / Switzerland)
1997 Fred (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
Lumière sur un Massacre: Le Soldat (short; also
screenwriter)
Lumière sur un massacre: L’Usine (short; also
screenwriter)
1998 En plein Cœur / USA: In All Innocence
1999 Ma Petite Entreprise (also co-screenwriter, codialogist,
actor)
2002 Le Frère du Guerrier (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
2003 Filles uniques (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2005 Zim and Co. (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
actor)
2007 Je crois que je t’aime (also co-screenwriter)
2008 La très très grande Entreprise (also screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1988 Sueurs froides (episode “La Chute”; also
screenwriter)
JOLIVET, PIERRE-ALAIN (May 15, 1935, Paris,
France–)
The son of composer André Jolivet, he obtained a
degree in letters before completing his literary and
theatrical studies at Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
Maine, USA. Having returned to France, he learned
acting at the Ecole de la Rue Blanche with Berthe
Bovy and at the Cours Dullin with such teachers as
Jean Vilar and Philippe Noiret. After landing parts in
TV and cinema, he joined the Renaud-Barrault group.
At age twenty-two, he directed two plays (Mala, Jean
Laugier; Unchained Prometheus, Aeschylus) at Théâtre
du Tertre. Discharged from his military service in Algeria
after twenty-eight months, he created his fi rst
play, Nos Femmes, in 1966 and met the members of
the Panique group (Arrabal, Jodorowsky, Topor). The
same year, he made his fi lm directing debut. From
1974 to 1978, he gave up cinema and was involved
in David Cooper’s antipsychiatric movement. He
resumed his stage directing career (Le Client, Jean-
Claude Carrière) and spent nine years in Canada
after the shooting of Black Mirror. He came back to
France in 1989 and is still active.
Filmography
1968 Bérénice (also screenwriter, adapter; shot in
1966)
1969 Le Grand Cérémonial / UK: Weird Weirdo (also
screenwriter)
1971 Ca (also screenwriter)
1973 La Punition (also screenwriter)
1981 Black Mirror / Haute Surveillance (also screenwriter;
Canada / France; shot in 1978)
1998 Le Combat avec l’Ange (also screenwriter,
adapter)
2004 Fando et Lis
Flashball
JOLIVET, RENÉ (December 28, 1898, Albertville,
Savoie, France–February 27, 1975, Bandol, Var,
France)
Having trained as an engineer, he was a journalist,
novelist (1930 L’Eden, Editions Arthème-
Fayard; L’Epave, Les Editions des Portiques; 1931
Les Hommes maudits. Les Ténèbres, Redier; 1935 La
Maison sur l’Inconnu, Editions Arthème-Fayard), and
playwright (La Chasse au Miroir; Finie la Comédie;
Le Poil de l’Eléphant) before switching to movies
as a screenwriter (1938 Prisons de Femmes / USA:
Marked Girls, as co-dialogist, Roger Richebé; 1939
L’Esclave blanche / USA: Pasha’s Wives, as adapter,
Marc Sorkin; Angelica / Rosa di sangue / USA: Blood
Red Rose, as dialogist, Jean Choux; La Tradition de
Minuit, as dialogist, Roger Richebé; 1944 Le Mort ne
reçoit plus, as screenwriter, co-dialogist, Jean Tarride;
1946 Au Pays des Cigales, as screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist, Maurice Cam; On demande un Ménage, as
screenwriter, adapter, Maurice Cam; 1947 Le Bateau
à Soupe, as co-dialogist, Gilbert Dupé; Le Fugitif, as
screenwriter, dialogist, Robert Bibal; Fausse Identité,
as adapter, André Chotin; La Grande Maguet, as
co-adapter, Roger Richebé; 1949 Rapide de Nuit, as
screenwriter, Marcel Blistène; Ainsi fi nit la Nuit / UK
and USA: Thus Finishes the Night, as screenwriter,
Emile-Edwin Reinert; Le Sorcier du Ciel, as screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, Marcel Blistène; Drame au
Vel’ d’Hiv’, as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Maurice
Cam; 1953 Opération Magali, as co-dialogist, Laszló
Kish; L’Etrange Amazone, as adapter, dialogist, Jean