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.

Filmography

27 films

Jean Labadie

Biography

Filmography

Los Tigres

Sundays

Left-Handed Girl

The Beasts

Where Is Anne Frank

Three Floors

Pinocchio

Monos

The Operative

The Dead Don't Die

An Impossible Love

Keep Going

Dogman

Thelma

Paterson

Graduation

The Untamed

Tale of Tales

Mia madre

Only Lovers Left Alive

The Zero Theorem

Reality

The Weeping Meadow

Behind the Sun

The Son's Room

Taboo

Indochine