The best Jacques Brel’s documentary movies

Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel

08/04/1929- 09/10/1978
We present our ranking of the best Jacques Brel’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jacques Brel.

Petit Jour

Petit Jour
5.1/10

D'un film à l'autre

D'un film à l'autre
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 13/04/2011
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that would sum up all the earlier ones. D'un film à l'autre is hence a kind of anthology of the films produced Les Films 13 since the 1960s (short and feature films written and directed for the main part by Claude Lelouch), a best-of of half a century of cinema, going from Le Propre de l'homme to What Love May Bring. A biography in images of a filmmaker as admired as he is criticized. In reality, D'un film à l'autre is more than a series of film excerpts, interviews, and making-of documents (some of which possess an undeniable historical value, like that from A Man and A Woman, or the final performances of Patrick Dewaere).

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
7.2/10
A documentary on the influential musician Scott Walker.

Lino Ventura, la part intime

Lino Ventura, la part intime
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 04/02/2018
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)

Jacques Brel, fou de vivre

Jacques Brel, fou de vivre
7.3/10
Presents archival material as well as interviews with those who were close to Jacques Brel, who died way too young, at age 49. Jacques Brel sings "Madeleine" over the opening credits of this film and immediately the audience is drawn into the intense theatricality of his performance. Left without a choice, they follow his lead, join the chanson and are left sweaty and breathless, just like Brel. Philippe Kohly, a documentary filmmaker who is renowned for profiling artists, created a fascinating portrait of the legendary singer of Flemish descent who became a master of French chanson.

La folle histoire de François Pignon - De La chèvre au Dîner de cons

La folle histoire de François Pignon - De La chèvre au Dîner de cons

Brel à Knokke

Brel à Knokke

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