Pierre Étaix Movies

A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover decides to reply. Fountain pen,...

A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.

Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few strings to his advantage, the unfortunate...

Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.

It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it.

Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up getting confused.

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but...

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the...

A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship...

A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.

Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966).

Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his career in cinema, Land of Milk and Honey is a...

An international homage to Méliès in 1988.

Two-part documentary about French director Jacques Tati chronicles the evolution of the filmmaker's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, through archival...