Biography
Jean Labadie is a name which perhaps remains a tad obscured despite his formidable influence on the French film industry. In 1986, Labadie founded distribution company Bac Films in 1986, a label which took home the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival for David Lynch’s Wild at Heart as well as in 1991 for the Coen. Bros.’ Barton Fink. Labadie sold his shares at Bac in 2007 to create Le Pacte, a company also synonymous with European cinematic royalty.
Awards & recognition
- European Film Award — Best Film · 2018 · nominated
Filmography39 titles
Winged Migration
The Beasts
Dogman
Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
Behind the Sun
Left-Handed Girl
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Candidate
Quién te cantará
Paterson
Reality
The Son's Room
R.M.N.
Indochine
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Thelma
Graduation
Silent Light
Mother
Where Is Anne Frank
Monos
Pinocchio
An Impossible Love
My Mother
The Last of the Unjust
Moon Man
Tale of Tales
Never Too Late for Love
The Zero Theorem
Lulu in the Nude
Post Tenebras Lux
The Untamed
The Operative
Chinese Box
Free Zone
The Dead Don't Die
Scorpion
Paris Countdown
Bachelor Days Are Over