Jean Rollin: The Stray Dreamer

Jean Rollin: The Stray Dreamer

78 mins | Documentary | Sept. 20, 2011

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 Maguerite 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.

Jean Rollin: The Stray Dreamer

78 mins | Documentary | Sept. 20, 2011

Jean Rollin: The Stray Dreamer
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 Maguerite 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.
Producers Burning Rooster Productions, Purple Milk Production
Original title Jean Rollin, le rêveur égaré
Directors Yvan Pierre-Kaiser, Damien Dupont
Writers Yvan Pierre-Kaiser, Damien Dupont

Cast

Jean Rollin

as Himself

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

as Himself

Jean-Loup Philippe

as Himself

Natalie Perrey

as Herself

Pascal Françaix

as Himself

Ovidie

as Herself

Philippe Druillet

as Himself

Pete Tombs

as Himself

Caroline Vié

as Herself

Brigitte Lahaie

as Herself