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Jean-Louis Jorge

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Jean-Louis Jorge

Born January 1, 1947 · Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic

Died March 13, 2000 · aged 53

Jean-Louis Jorge (Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, 1947 – ibid., March 13, 2000) was a film director and screenwriter and television director and producer. Jean-Louis Jorge possessed an exceptional, refined, and extravagant talent whose predilection for the kitsch and transgressive places him, from a contemporary perspective, as a precursor to Almodóvar's cinema. His explosive mix o…

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MelodramaMelodrama · 1976
Melodrama
★ 4.21976
Movie
This black-and-white film explores the dividing line between the theatrical imagination and everyday reality in its story of a narcissistic silent movie actor who believes his screen image as a great lover but is in fact a confused bisexual. His girlfriend, also an actress, is also caught up in the fuzzy space between fantasy and reality but feels this as a loss and tries to do something about it.
Cuando un amor se vaCuando un amor se va · 1998
Cuando un amor se va
★ 1.01998
MovieDrama
Based on the real-life story of Crucita Yin, a woman who was accused of infidelity and child abandonment through graffiti all over Santo Domingo.
Serpents of the Pirate MoonSerpents of the Pirate Moon · 1973
Serpents of the Pirate Moon
★ 5.31973
MovieDrama
A woman who works in a night club starts having obsessive thoughts, beginning to lose her hold on reality.

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