Pascal Bonitzer
Pascal BONITZER (1946, France) is a French screenwriter, filmmaker, actor and former film critic for Cahiers du cinéma. Active in cinema since the late 1960s, he has written more than forty screenplays and appeared as an actor in numerous films, notably starring in Raúl Ruiz’s The Suspended Vocation (1978). As a filmmaker, his work is marked by literary adaptation, irony and an interest in moral ambiguity. Bonitzer has received three César Award nominations, including for Best Screenplay for My Favorite Season (1993) and Les Innocentes (2016), as well as Best First Feature for Encore (1996).
Filmography
Les sirènes (1989, short), Encore (1996), Rien sur Robert (1999), Petites coupures (2003), Je pense à vous (2006), Le grand alibi (2008), Cherchez Hortense (2012), Tout de suite maintenant (2016), Les Envoûtés (2019), Victor comme tout le monde (2026),
Made in Paris (2006), The Great Alibi (2008), Looking for Hortense (2012), Tout de suite maintenant (2016), Les Innocentes (2016), Les Envoûtés (2019), Auction (2024), Victor comme tout le monde (2026)
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Pascal Bonitzer at IFFR
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Victor comme tout le monde
Pascal Bonitzer | 89' | France | International premiere
A French actor devoted to Victor Hugo finds his artistic values and lifestyle challenged by women. -
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Cherchez Hortense
Pascal Bonitzer | 100' | France | None
Damien is married to Iva who has reached an irreversible state of lassitude. Iva asks him to help Zorica who is to be deported, through… -
Secret défense
Jacques Rivette | 170' | France | -
Film inspired by Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Rivette uses the stereotypes of the genre and cuts them off when the heroin Sylvie (Sandrine Bonnaire), a scient -
Trois vies et une seule mort
Raúl Ruiz | 123' | France | -
Marcello Mastroianni played no less than four roles in his last feature, an accessible and enjoyable tale by Raul Ruiz. -
Généalogies d’un crime
Raúl Ruiz | 113' | France | -
Latest Ruiz was inspired by a bizarre anecdote from psychoanalysis. An incomparable courtroom drama with Cathérine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli. -
La belle noiseuse
Jacques Rivette | 240' | France | -
A long film, four hours long, which not a single critic or viewer has considered even one second too long. The reactions to this umpteenth… -
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Lumumba
Raoul Peck | 115' | France | None
Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) first made a documentary, then this political thriller about Patrice Lumumba, the first president of the Congo follow