Jean-Daniel Pollet (1936–2004) was a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis Ponge. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Daniel Pollet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​