Highest rated movie: Shock Treatment (1973)
Lowest rated movie: Frankenstein 90 (1984)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Alain Jessua? Cinafilm has a total of 322 reviews across 2 movies directed by Alain Jessua.
Movies from this director have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average rating of 50%.
Shock Treatment is Alain Jessua's highest rated movie, with a score of 62% based on 320 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Alain Jessua is Frankenstein 90, with a score of 38% based on 2 reviews.
Alain Jessua began his career as assistant to directors like Max Ophüls, Marcel Carne, Yves Allégret and Jacques Becker, before making his unique short film, Léon la lune, which earned him the prestigious Prix Jean-Vigo award in 1957. A few years later, in 1963, his first feature film (which became "cult" among moviegoers) won two prizes in Cannes and also Venice: La Vie à l'envers, with Charles Denner and Jean Yanne in his first movie role. He then went on to direct a series of successful and critically acclaimed feature films, which he produced himself (a rare risk in the French cinema landscape).
Alain Jessua is regularly honored in France and abroad. His short film Léon la lune was screened at the MOMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York a few years ago and Martin Scorsese cited La Vie à l'envers as one of the films that really made an impact on him. Jean Tulard , in his "Dictionary of Cinema", writes: "He proposes a cinema where he tackles the problems of our time and makes cries of alarm. "
Alain Jessua is also the author of six novels.
Alain Jessua has directed films starring Anna Gaylor, Alain Delon, Annie Girardot and Jean Rochefort.
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