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Biette (2013)

Biette poster
Directed by
Pierre Léon
Genre
documentary film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 49m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary portrait of French filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette. Friends and collaborators share memories in places that were important to him.

intimatereflectivetendergentlenostalgiccontemplative

What happens

Biette est un documentaire français réalisé par Pierre Léon et sorti en 2013. Pierre Léon filme le portrait du cinéaste Jean-Claude Biette. Les lieux biettiens (le petit théâtre, le terrain vague, les appartements parisiens, le Portugal…) se peuplent d’amis et de collaborateurs qui évoquent leurs souvenirs. Critiques et historiens du cinéma (Sylvie Pierre, Jean Narboni, Louis Skorecki, Jacques Bontemps, Bernard Eisenschitz, Marc Sator…), comédiens (Françoise Lebrun, Micheline Presle, Jeanne Balibar, Valérie Jeannet, Denis Lavant, Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Luis Miguel Cintra…), cinéastes (Marie-Claude Treilhou, Christine Laurent, Anne Benhaïem, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Paul Vecchiali, Manoel de Oliveira, Adolfo Arrieta, Serge Bozon…), racontent chacun leur Jean-Claude Biette. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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