Movies: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic produc...

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Denounced by a rival doctor, Dr. Loiseau is once again being pursued by the husbands of the women he kidnapped. He therefore instructs his son Victor to honor his appointments. Victor must meet Emir Azmir Krabouk, a criminal specializing in white sla...

Three no-budget semi-professional filmmakers finally get their due in this witty but respectful documentary. Director Frederic Sojcher visits three fellow Belgian auteurs whose ambitions outstrip their budgets, or their recognition. Max Naveaux is a ...

The husbands set out in search of their wives, who have been kidnapped by Doctor Loiseau and his accomplices. The latter is hiding in a secret hideout. Still assisted by Irene the hunchback, the charlatan doctor leads a team of workers tasked with pr...

Madness has reached its peak in Wallonia....

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Dr. Loiseau organizes bizarre screenings in a tent, assisted by a carnival barker, a hunchbacked nurse, a disgraced wrestler, and an ex-convict. Together, they devise ways to attract women by leading them to believe that the doctor knows the miracle ...

The third and final film in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's trilogy L'histoire du cinéma 16 (The History of Cinema 16)....

Traumatized during his childhood by the arbitrary amputation of his uncle's leg, a smoker spreads terror throughout the Charleroi region. Under the orders of a manipulative tour guide, he hunts down a group of clumsy tourists. He takes a few body par...

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Documentary produced and broadcast in the show "Court Circuit" on Arte....

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau has just finished his last film, shot in unworthy conditions. He is preparing to show it to the movie critics of a local newspaper. The filmmaker launches the first images but these reveal all the problems that a non-professiona...

Aloïs de Snefeler, a maniacal executioner, dotes on his companion. She goes by the sweet name of Louise and does her father, Dr. Ignace Guillotin, proud. At the widow's feet, heads roll. But not just any heads... The executioner's favorite prey is fe...

Born of the medical rape of a Soviet professor on a young Russian-Mongolian woman, a hybrid child, enriched with the blood of a Nazi doctor, is kidnapped by succubi. The fat of the scalded newborn will restore their queen Melustine's power to regener...

The film tells the story of a kind of depraved Dr. Mabuse who takes advantage of his status as a healer to kidnap women who come to consult him in the hope of being cured of various so-called female ailments....

A young woman commits suicide on her wedding day. Forty years later, her husband still lives in pain and despair, alone and losing himself to poetry books. One day, old and close to his death, he decides to leave his house and take one last action....

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