Yannick Bellon: The Happy Pessimist - The Lookout

Part Two

Yannick Bellon is one of the greatest French filmmakers of the twentieth century, yet owing to her fierce independence and singular voice, remains underknown in comparison to her contemporaries. With this retrospective, the most comprehensive ever staged in the United States, Bellon’s exposure and reputation should deservedly begin to be appreciated as the major artist she is.

Over a sixty-year career, Bellon collaborated with stars like Bulle Ogier, Marlène Jobert, and amateur actors, creating both shorts and features, narratives and documentaries, and work for television and cinema. Each work is as extraordinary as the last.

Through her production company, Les Films de l’Équinoxe, Bellon wrote, directed and produced her own work, tackling subjects with predominantly female characters that few, if any, fellow filmmakers attempted to present. Bellon worked outside any dominant movements such as the New Wave, and remained uncompromising in her vision and true to her art.

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L’Affût

Bellon tackles hunting, conservation and the related political and financial interests of both. Taking place in the Dombes region of Eastern France, L’Affût is another of Bellon’s love stories of people with chaotic and painful pasts, return to old memories, not expecting to make the connections that they do.

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