Jean-Claude Rousseau Movies

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still...

Rooms must be vacated before noon on the day of departure. An extra night will be charged for all late departures." Jean-Claude Rousseau has used...

A journey to Kyoto. From the temple’s highest terrace visitors have a view of the city in the distance, under the changing sky.

My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note,...

In a darkened room a dark figure holding numerous flickering candles walks towards the camera. The single frame, however, keeps the secret of the...

A hotel room and a few sweets, their wrappers stacked like gold leaf... An interview with Chantal Akerman and ongoing coverage of the 2015 terrorist...

A man is waiting in a hotel.

Rousseau is shown sitting in a room, waiting. Voices leave messages on his answering machine (sound); a table lamp (light) and an empty writing pad...

A man spends his time sitting by a window that overlooks a pool.

"if he leaned out the window, if he did that movement, if he risked to fall or to drop the camera, if he leaned to fall, then he would see and it...

Can you tell if yours is a colour or black and white dream ? If yours is a silent or sound dream ? If ther’s a voice off or actual sound ?

“My eyes are imprisoned/ Weeping with great longing”. Soèdade (saudade) — “longing” or “yearning”...

Where may the reds and goldens be? Where may the so promised city be? The lover beholds his fate in a faded Venice.

Jean-Claude Rousseau's Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre is not only his first medium-length film, but a chance to discover...

At first glance, Jean-Claude Rousseau’s films seem like quickly outlined sketches. They are snapshots of various situations and locations, as...

Jean-Claude Rousseau is a filmmaker who believes in the natural power of images. The rigid compositions create something like a pure state, which...

The continuing demand for high standards is what sets Rouseau's work apart. What makes this film distinctive is the way Rousseau explicitly returns...

"He came to read. He opened two or three books; historians and poets. But he barely read for ten minutes before giving it up." C. Cavafy