Jean-Daniel Pollet

Directing•Born June 20, 1936•Died September 9, 2004 (age 68)•La Madeleine, France

Biography

Jean-Daniel Pollet (1936–2004) was a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis Ponge.