Pierre Zucca

Director

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Biography

Pierre Zucca was a French film director and photographer known for his unique visual style and contributions to French cinema. He began his career as a photographer, capturing portraits of notable figures in the arts. Zucca transitioned to filmmaking in the 1970s, directing films such as Roberte (1979) and L'Œil qui ment (1992). His films often blended surrealism with narrative storytelling, creating a distinctive cinematic experience.

Filmography

5.1

Robin

After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her studies in history and has a good friend, Frédéric, a medical student who wouldn't mind being more than just that. Around her, strange fellows attract her attention. Who is Philippe, allegedly Louis's stockbroker? And what about Marguerite who presents herself as her father's former secretary? Even more puzzling is the video cassette she finds in her father's place, showing young motorbikers distributing bundles of banknotes. Some time later, Charles, one of the bikers appearing on the video, rings the doorbell: he is wounded.

3.5

Lark, I'll Pluck You!

An old con-man fakes an illness and takes advantage of the kindness of one of his nurses.

4.3

Roberte

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.

5.2

Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)

This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.

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Porte de Bagnolet

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