Jean Rouch
French film director and ethnologist (1917–2004)
1.36body-of-work score · ranked #689 of 2631 directors · 5 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- May 31, 1917 · Paris
- Died
- February 18, 2004 · Birni-N'Konni
- Nationality
- France
- Work
- anthropologist, film director, screenwriter, photographer
- Movement
- cinéma vérité
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 10.431 citation
- 20.431 citation
- 3
1961 · France · documentary
Criterion Collection spine #648 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.272 citations - 40.111 citation
- 50.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 24 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1951Cimetières dans la falaise
- 1955Les maîtres fous
- 1958Moi, un noir
- 1961Chronique d'un été
- 1961The Human Pyramid
- 1962Fêtes de l'indépendance du Niger
- 1962The Punishment
- 1963Rose et Landry
- 1964That Tender Age
- 1965Gare du nord
- 1965Six in Paris
- 1966The 15-Year-Old Widows
- 1967Daudo Sorko
- 1967Jaguar
- 1967La chasse au lion à l'arc
- 1971Little by Little
- 1973VW Voyou
- 1974Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! Mr. Chicken
- 1976Babatu
- 1984Dionysos
- 1988Enigma
- 1989Boulevards d'Afrique
- —Brise-glace
- —Les Fils de l'eau