Jean Rollin

Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and Fascination. His films are noted for their exquisite, if mostly static, cinematography, offkilter plot progression and poetic dialogue, their playful surrealism and recurrent use of wellconstructed female lead characters. Outlandish denouments and abstruse visual symbols were trademarks throughout his dark fantasy career. He was the first French director to recognise the acting capabilities of former porn actress Brigitte Lahaie, who took important roles in a number of his movies after appearing in Les Raisins de la Mort. Remarkably, in spite of their seeming high production values and precise craftsmanship, his films were made with very little money, and often under crushing deadlines.

Jean Rollin was born in NeuillysurSeine , France, to Claude Rollin, an actor and theatre director, who went by the stage name Claude Martin, and Denise RollinLe Gentil, thus being born into an artistically inclined family. His halfbrother was actor Olivier Rollin.

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