Benoît Jacquot
Filmmaker and screenwriter Benoît JACQUOT (1947, France) started his career at the age of 17 as an assistant to filmmaker Bernard Borderie, and later became the assistant director of Jacques Rivette and Marguerite Duras. During the early seventies, Jacquot worked a lot for television and in 1975 he directed his first feature, L’assassin musician (1975), based on a novel by Dostoevsky and starring Anna Karina. Since then, he has built up an impressive oeuvre of psychological dramas, novels, stage plays, adaptations and television documentaries, many of which competed in the major award sections at Cannes, Venice and Berlin. In 2005, he was honoured in Rotterdam as Film Maker in Focus. In 2013, Jacquot won the René Clair Award for his achievements in the field of cinema.
Filmography
Thomas l’obscur (1969, TV), Jacques Lacan: la psychanalyse 1 (1974, TV doc), Jacques Lacan: la psychanalyse 2 (1974, TV doc), L’assassin musicien/The Musician Killer (1975), Alfred Deller – Portrait d’une voix (1976, TV), Les enfants du placard/Closet Children (1977), Les ailes de la Colombe (1981), Télévision de chambre (1982, TV, 1 episode), Elvire Jouvet 40 (1986, TV), Corps et biens/Lost with All Hands (1985), Les mendiants/The Beggars (1987), La bête dans la jungle/The Beast of the Jungle (1988, TV), Voyage au bout de la nuit (1988, TV), Elvire-Jouvet 40 (1988, TV), La désenchantée/The Disenchanted (1990), Dans la solitude des champs de coton (1990, TV), Cuentos de Borges (1992, TV, 1 episode), Écrire (1992, short doc), La mort du jeune aviateur anglais/The Death of the Young English Aviator (1993, short doc), Il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée (1994, TV short), 3000 scénarios contre un virus/3000 Scenarios to Combat a Virus (1994, TV series, 1 episode), La vie de Marianne (1994, TV series, 2 episodes), La fille seule/A Single Girl (1995), La place royale (1995, TV), Un siècle d’écrivains (1996, TV doc series, 1 episode), Le septième ciel/Seventh Heaven (1997), Marianne (1997), L’école de la chair/The School of Flesh (1998), Par coeur (1998, doc), Pas de scandale/No Scandal (1999), La fausse suivante/False Servant (2000), Sade (2000), Tosca (2001), Adolphe (2002), Princesse Marie (2004, TV), A tout de suite/Right Now (2004), L’intouchable/The Untouchable (2006), Gaspard le bandit (2006, TV), Villa Amalia (2009), Atelier jardin (2009, short), Werther (2010, TV), Les faux-monnayeurs/The Counterfeiters (2010, TV), Au fond des bois/Deep in the Woods (2010), Les adieux à la reine/Farewell, My Queen (2012), Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013, segment), 3 coeurs/Three Hearts (2014), Journal d’une femme de chambre/Diary of a Chambermaid (2015), Gentleman Rissient (2016), À jamais/Never Ever (2016), Eva (2018), Dernier amour (2019), Suzanna Andler (2020)
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Benoît Jacquot at IFFR
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Suzanna Andler
Effective, minimalist, supremely French film adaptation of a play by Marguerite Duras about a wealthy woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) receiving her lover
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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 told
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L’intouchable
The quest of a young French actress for the Indian man who might be her father. With no more than a name in her pocket, she travels to the Indian subc
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La bête dans la jungle
Based on the famous short story about a man who worried all his life about a possible catastrophe that would overcome him. In the end he finds out tha
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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 classi
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La désenchantée
The teenager Beth, with incredible dark eyes, grows up in three days. Beautifully intense film.
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Adolphe
Based on a 19th-century roman à clef by Benjamin Constant that caused a scandal at the time. An ‘amour fou’ between the handsome young Adolphe and the
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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 brothe