Personal Info
Birth date
1942-11-06 (82 Years)
Day of death
2003-06-10
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Paris, France
Also known as
-Jean-Claude Biette
Biography
Jean-Claude Biette (6 November 1942 – 10 June 2003) was a French filmmaker.
Filmography
The Mother and the Whore
7.416
Overview:
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.Céline and Julie Go Boating
6.734
Overview:
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.Oedipus Rex
6.751
Overview:
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…A Tale of Winter
7.073
Overview:
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.India Song
6.386
Overview:
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.The Carpathian Mushroom
5.2
Overview:
A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an actress.Suzanne’s Career
6.4
Overview:
In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.Othon
5.4
Overview:
Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.The Theatre of the Matters
6.7
Overview:
The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.Open Season
6.3
Overview:
A "three people relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.The Garden That Tilts
6.7
Overview:
Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approaches her but fails to kill her. Instead, he falls in love and becomes her lover ...Three Bridges on the River
7
Overview:
Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Having just made up with Claire, he decides to take her along. She's an ideal travel companion and it seems their relationship has not yet exhausted its potential. But moving from Lisbon to Oporto, their fantasy of a second honeymoon clashes with the reality of a world on the verge of a nightmare.Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
7
Overview:
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
4.3
Overview:
The ex-wife of a famous sculptor convinces her lover to remove one of his sculptures from an exhibition and replace it with a live model.The Complex of Toulon
5
Overview:
It is due to some professional obligations that brothers Charles and Fredi turn their attention to theater. Charles, an actor does not want Fredi to write a book on him.Saltimbank
5
Overview:
The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, there is a net of family members, friends, and acquaintances who seem to swirl around the banking brothers. Frederic and Bruno are both trying to control the future of their beautiful niece, Vanessa. The coffee shop owners Eve and Jim complicate everybody's life with their intrigues and lies. A strange stage director comes from his foreign exile. And lack of funds suddenly reveals the true colors of everyone - in banking, on stage, and everywhere.Far from Manhattan
7.6
Overview:
Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery.Le Château de Pointilly
5.8
Overview:
A young woman escapes her father's house and goes to live in the city. There, she realises her father may still be controlling her life through the people she meets.Mange ta soupe
5.3
Overview:
A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him.The Adolescent
6
Overview:
Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.La Partenza
5
Overview:
A street strewn with papers. The legs of passers-by. A young man crosses the street. Then we find him in the middle of a discussion with a friend. “Are you still determined to leave? – Yes, I'm leaving today at five o'clock by plane. »Salò: Yesterday and Today
5
Overview:
A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.La Sœur du cadre
NYR
Overview:
The sister of a manager who finds work for the unemployed, instructs her brother's employee to find unemployed people.Oncle Vania
NYR
Overview:
Elegantly and carefully, Léon trains his sights both on Chekhov’s famous play written in 1896 and on its earlier, lesser known version entitled "The Wood Demon" (1889), combining the two.Acting
2003Saltimbank as Vania
2002Salò: Yesterday and Today as Unknown
2001The Adolescent as Nicolas
1998Le Dieu Mozart II as Nicolas
1997Mange ta soupe as Unknown
1997Oncle Vania as Ivan Petrovitch Verkhovenski (oncle Vania)
1992A Tale of Winter as Quentin
1976Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert as Unknown
1975India Song as Voix de la Réception (voice)
1975The Garden That Tilts as Unknown
1975The Adventures of Sylvia Couski as Unknown
1974Céline and Julie Go Boating as Spectateur au cabaret (uncredited)
1973The Mother and the Whore as Café Les Deux Magots' Customer (uncredited)
1972Le Château de Pointilly as Unknown
1971Othon as Martianus
1963Suzanne’s Career as Jean-Louis (uncredited)
Writing
2003Saltimbank ... Writer
1999Three Bridges on the River ... Screenplay
1996The Complex of Toulon ... Scenario Writer
1990The Carpathian Mushroom ... Writer
1983Pornoscopie ... Writer
1982Far from Manhattan ... Screenplay
1977The Theatre of the Matters ... Writer
Directing
2003Saltimbank ... Director
1999Three Bridges on the River ... Director
1996The Complex of Toulon ... Director
1993Open Season ... Director
1990The Carpathian Mushroom ... Director
1983Archipelago of Love ... Director
1983Pornoscopie ... Director
1982Far from Manhattan ... Director
1977The Theatre of the Matters ... Director
1973La Sœur du cadre ... Director
1970Ce que cherche Jacques ... Director
1968La Partenza ... Director
1967Oedipus Rex ... Assistant Director
1966Ecco ho letto ... Director
Art
1982Far from Manhattan ... Production Design
Sound
1972Le Château de Pointilly ... Sound Director