Robiolles, Jacques

(March 6, 1935, Cout-ances, Manche, France - )

   The son of a movie theater (L'Electric Cinéma Parlant) manager and then a projectionist, he left his native Brittany after his military service to settle in Paris in 1958. He met all the members of the "Nouv­elle Vague" (François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette). He wanted to become their assistant, but they hired him as an actor (1963 Landru / UK and USA: Bluebeard, Claude Chabrol, France / Italy; 1967 La Mariée était en noir / La sposa in nero / UK and USA: The Bride Wore Black, François Truffaut, France / Italy; 1968 Baisers volés / UK and USA: Stolen Kisses, François Truffaut; 1970 Domicile conjugal / Non drammatizziamo . . . è solo questione di corna / UK and USA: Bed and Board, François Truffaut, France / Italy). In 1968, he directed his first film, Le Daguemaluakh, which was produced by Henri Langlois, the co-founder and manager of the Cinémathèque Française. He never stopped playing supporting roles in films of every kind to finance his experimental and poetic films.

 Filmography

1963 ◘ Réflexion faite dans un Buffet Henri III (16-mm short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Daguemaluakh (shot in 16-mm; also screenwriter; unreleased)

        ◘ Alice (16-mm short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Essai pour Richard III, Roi d'Angleterre (16-mm short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Les Yeux de Maman sont des Etoiles (shot in 16­mm; also screenwriter; unreleased)

        ◘ La Vallée des Ombres (shot in 16-mm; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Train de Transylvanie (shot in 16-mm; also screenwriter; unreleased)

1976 ◘ Le Jardin des Héspérides (also screenwriter; shot in 1974)

        ◘ L'Equinox (short; also screenwriter, actor)

1977 ◘ La Maison qui pleure (short; also screenwriter, actor)

1981 ◘ La Forêt désenchantée (short; also screenwriter, producer, production designer, costume designer, composer)

 Television Filmography

1988 ◘ Comme des Larrons en Foire (documentary; also screenwriter)

1990 ◘ La Saga des Anglo-Normandes (documentary; also screenwriter)