Acting

Pierre Klossowski

Born August 8, 1905 · Paris, France

Died August 12, 2001 · aged 96

No biography available.

Known For

Salò, or the 120 Days of SodomSalò, or the 120 Days of Sodom · 1976
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
★ 6.31976
MovieHorrorDrama
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Au Hasard BalthazarAu Hasard Balthazar · 1966
Au Hasard Balthazar
★ 7.51966
MovieDrama
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
The Hypothesis of the Stolen PaintingThe Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting · 1978
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
★ 7.01978
MovieDramaMystery
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.
The Sequence of Parallel BarsThe Sequence of Parallel Bars · 1992
The Sequence of Parallel Bars
★ 3.21992
MovieDrama
The film opens with a rubber-clad woman stepping sensuously out of a limousine. The camera lovingly closes-up on her stilletoed foot... She enters a dark desolate warehouse, and meets two men, who proceed to chain her up and worship her body. Originally projected on three screens simultaneously. Music by legendary noise musician Merzbow.
The Suspended VocationThe Suspended Vocation · 1978
The Suspended Vocation
★ 6.61978
MovieDrama
The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties.
RoberteRoberte · 1979
Roberte
★ 4.31979
MovieDramaFantasy
Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.
Un film sur quelqu'unUn film sur quelqu'un · 1972
Un film sur quelqu'un
★ 8.01972
Movie
A documentary that pretends to be a fictional film. About the work and the life of a man, a man called Pierre Henry at the beginning of the film and who ends up calling himself "someone".

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