The documentary "Les Enfants terribles du cinéma" (The Terrible Children of Cinema) tells the little-known story of one of the crossroads of cinephilia, *OBJECTIF 49*, which culminated in the organization of the Biarritz Festival of Cursed Films during the summer of 1949. This festival was initiated by Jean Cocteau, then at the height of his cinematic career. In Biarritz, films deemed "cursed" were screened because they had not yet found an audience or had been banned by censors. This selection offered a radically different vision of cinema from that of other festivals, such as Cannes. An entire generation of active filmmakers was celebrated: René Clément, Robert Bresson, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Eric Rohmer...
Ezequiel Fernández
Director, Writer
Djamel Zaoui
Director, Writer
Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
Jean Douchet
Self
Édouard Molinaro
Self
Claude Pinoteau
Self
Jean-Charles Tacchella
Self
Varda par Agnès78%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Room 23761%
Chambre 66666%
12 jours71%
Daguerréotypes73%
Night Will Fall76%
Le Voyage extraordinaire77%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Being James Bond77%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
Lumière ! L'aventure commence79%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
The Class of ‘9271%
Les Plages d'Agnès77%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Oncle Yanco72%
