Benoît Jacquot

A brother and sister see each other again after years and again feel guilty about their sick mother, who hung herself in their youth and whom they found in on their way to the cupboard in the hallway, their secret spot for ritual games.

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 that this fear itself is the catastrophe.

Stenographic reports of the conversations that Louis Jouvet had with his actors at the National Conservatoire for Drama in Paris are mixed with classic comedies and plays, from Molière to modern.

The teenager Beth, with incredible dark eyes, grows up in three days. Beautifully intense film.

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 by Marguèrite Duras.

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.

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 that evades his somatic observation. She seeks help elsewhere.

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 riper Eleanor, who really belongs to an important French nobleman. With Isabelle Adjani in a beautiful leading role.

An intensely wary and subtle look at the confusions of puberty, filmed in stunning widescreen black & white. The Parisienne Lili falls madly in love with a kid who turns out to be a petty criminal. Before she realises, she is fleeing through Europe with him.

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 riper Eleanor, who really belongs to an important French nobleman. With Isabelle Adjani in a beautiful leading role.

Contemporary adaptation of the novel by Henry James. Isabelle Huppert is the dying rich lady Marie, Michele Placido plays the well-meaning lover Sandro and Dominique Sanda is Catherine Croy, the beautiful Parisian woman who drives them together in the hope of getting a major inheritance.

Discussions with and performances by the great British tenor Alfred Deller, founder of the legendary Alfred Deller Consort in 1948.

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 a poor woman in Paris and her daughter, the situation gets dramatically out of hand. Inspired by Dostoevsky's unfinished novel Netochka Nezvanova.

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 that this fear itself is the catastrophe.

The teenager Beth, with incredible dark eyes, grows up in three days. Beautifully intense film.

Benoit Jacquot films his good friend Marguèrite Duras while she talks, which is an event in itself. She talks about writing - the process, the loneliness, the grandeur, the insanity - with her well-known elegance, caution and large sad eyes.

Stenographic reports of the conversations that Louis Jouvet had with his actors at the National Conservatoire for Drama in Paris are mixed with classic comedies and plays, from Molière to modern.

A brother and sister see each other again after years and again feel guilty about their sick mother, who hung herself in their youth and whom they found in on their way to the cupboard in the hallway, their secret spot for ritual games.

Classic play by Marivaux is moved from eighteenth-century France to the contemporary theatre. Sandrine Kiberlain disguises herself as a man to get to know Lélio, the man to whom she is to be married off. Isabelle Huppert is the mistress she has to seduce first to have Lélio to herself.

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.

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 by Marguèrite Duras.

Beautiful adaptation of Marivaux' incompleted film La Vie de Marianne. Virginie Ledoyen is Marianne, a beautiful young orphan girl who thinks she has aristocratic blood and volunteers to enter a nunnery to avoid being married off.

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 Manhattan. He made a portrait based on interviews and rehearsals.

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 brother approach him, you would think he had returned from the dead.

Catherine Deneuve approached Benoit Jacquot for the television film version of the story about Marie Bonaparte, a neurotic cousin of Napoleon and princess of Greece and Denmark, and her relationship with Sigmund Freud. With an important role for the psychoanalysis of Bonaparte.

Sade is usually associated with torture and sadism. Jacquot made a fictional portrait in which De Sade (Daniel Auteuil) in 1794, during an unknown period in his life, is portrayed as a misjudged proponent of the freedom of speech.

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 that evades his somatic observation. She seeks help elsewhere.

Idiosyncratic adaptation of the famous opera by Puccini, who wants to capture the magic of a live performance as much as possible. With the great Italian soprano Angela Gheorgiu as Tosca and music by the orchestra of The Royal Opera House. Shot in Londen, location shots in Rome and a performance in Cologne.

Adaptation of an unknown novel by Yukio Mishima. The rather older Dominique (Isabelle Huppert) falls for the attractive young Quentin. The cinematography has great emotional and visual precision.

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 subcontinent. There everything is colourful, lively and unpredictable. In this world she knows nothing about, she gets to know herself.

Effective, minimalist, supremely French film adaptation of a play by Marguerite Duras about a wealthy woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) receiving her lover.