Benoit Jacquot Focus
Overview of films
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Pas de scandale
A businessman has just spent some time in jail, wrongly convinced for a fraud in the family firm. When you see just how cautiously his wife and bro
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Marguerite Duras – La mort du jeune aviateur anglais
In 1944, a young British pilot crashed his plane into a row of trees by a French village. Every year he is remembered by the inhabitants. A story t
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La fille seule
The girl from the title, just starting a new job in a four-star hotel in Paris, is followed for 90 minutes in a moving Bresson-esque film. Moving.<
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Marianne
Beautiful adaptation of Marivaux’ incompleted film La Vie de Marianne. Virginie Ledoyen is Marianne, a beautiful young orphan girl who thinks
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Elvire Jouvet 40
Stenographic reports of the conversations that Louis Jouvet had with his actors at the National Conservatoire for Drama in Paris are mixed with cla
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L’école de la chair
Adaptation of an unknown novel by Yukio Mishima. The rather older Dominique (Isabelle Huppert) falls for the attractive young Quentin. The cinemato
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Sade
Sade is usually associated with torture and sadism. Jacquot made a fictional portrait in which De Sade (Daniel Auteuil) in 1794, during an unknown
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Le septième ciel
Humane, subtle and complex portrait of a marriage in which the balance of power between the partners shifts. A surgeon’s wife is ill, but tha
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Princesse Marie
Catherine Deneuve approached Benoit Jacquot for the television film version of the story about Marie Bonaparte, a neurotic cousin of Napoleon and p
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Merce Cunningham and Co
In 1982 Jacquot went to New York to see the sixty-three-year-old American dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham at work in a studio in Manhatta
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L’assassin musicien
Jacquot’s feature debut about a violinist from the countryside who dreams of fame and riches despite his limited talent. When he gets to know
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Les ailes de la colombe
Contemporary adaptation of the novel by Henry James. Isabelle Huppert is the dying rich lady Marie, Michele Placido plays the well-meaning lover Sa