Directing
Benoît Jacquot
Benoît Jacquot is a French film director and screenwriter who has had a varied career in European cinema. Born in Paris, Jacquot began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films, including Nathalie Granger, India Song, and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre. He turned to writing and directing with the 1975 film The Musician Killer, which starred Anna Karina. He has directed over forty films, the most notable of which to American audiences are La Désenchantée (1990), starring Judith Godrèche, and A Single Girl (1995), starring Virginie Ledoyen. In 2003, he directed Massenet's opera Werther conducted by Antonio Pappano at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His film Farewell, My Queen opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. His 2014 film Three Hearts competed for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. In July 2024, Jacquot was charged with rape, including of a minor, and was barred from directing and having contact with minors.
Filmography
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the hu...
Chinese Puzzle
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children mo...
Looking for Hortense
Damien, a Chinese civilization professor, lives with his wife, Iva, a stage director, and their son Noé. The co...
India Song
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in...
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupi...
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India,...
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The fil...
Le Navire Night
Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-ove...
By Heart
It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. I...
Short Memory
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilita...
The Ministries of Art
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal...
Rendez-vous chez Lacan
Do you know Lacan, which many consider as the greatest psychoanalyst since Freud? Beyond the myth, the legends...
The Theatre of the Matters
The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.
Lubitsch, le patron
A documentary about the life and career of film director Ernst Lubitsch
Joan
Jeanne is interned in a psychiatric hospital. She claims to be Joan of Arc.
La Sœur du cadre
The sister of a manager who finds work for the unemployed, instructs her brother's employee to find unemployed...