Bertrand Bonello
Also Known As: Laurie Markovitch
Biography: Bertrand Bonello (born 11 September 1968) is a French film director, screenwriter, producer and composer. His background is in classical music, and he lives between Paris and Montreal. His work has also been associated with the New French Extremity. His film House of Tolerance, a depiction of daily life in a fin-de-siècle Parisian bordello, premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. His 2014 film Saint Laurent competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as France's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bertrand Bonello, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Birthday: September 11, 1968
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Gender: Male
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Body of Crime
Overview: "Corpus delicti": object that materially proves the existence of a criminal offense, a crime. Filmmaker Léolo reverses the perspective and asks in this docufiction what society does with the bodies of those who break the rules and resist power. The film successively gives a voice to the mutilated victims of police brutality and to a young fictional gay activist, carried by both his love and his devotion, but crushed by the legal system and prison. The film asks essential and necessary questions about the difficult intersection of art and politics, expression and action, justice and violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-19
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Portrait of the Artist
Overview: A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters. But what he doesn't show to anyone, not even his wife, is the mark on his back that keeps getting bigger. This red mark worries him, upsets him, and seems to want to tell him something...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Rouge
Overview: A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-06-11
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Qui je suis
Overview: In 1966, suffering from a serious ulcer, Pier Paolo Pasolini looked back on his life and work. He wrote a long autobiographical poem in prose, which he reworked several times and eventually abandoned. Thirty years after Pasolini's death, Bertrand Bonello decided to make a film about it, in homage to this overexcited artist and key figure of the 20th century.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-06-30
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Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Overview: A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-05-18
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Critic
Overview: Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-22
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The Bridge of Arts
Overview: The film is a love story which tells the impossible tale of two youths who have never before met. The action unrolls in Paris between 1979 and 1980.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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Children of Salò
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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We Should Not Exist
Overview: Hervé is a 37-year-old porno movie actor. Weary of the excesses of this fringe universe, he decides to hang up his Condoman costume and turn over a new leaf as a mainstream movie actor. He thus enters a world he knows nothing about. Rejected by his fellow actors, Hervé is just dying to learn the rules of the game. He then encounters LZA...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-23
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Making-of : "We Should Not Exist"
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-28
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Where Are You, Bertrand Bonello?
Overview: An autobiographical essay film structured as a letter to the director’s young daughter, "Où en êtes-vous, Bertrand Bonello?" weaves clips from Bonello’s films, excerpts from his scripts, pop songs, and snippets of original footage into a lyrical, reflexive cinematic self-portrait. "Où en êtes-vous?" is a collection initiated by Centre Pompidou, who asked directors to make retrospective and introspective films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Saint Laurent
Overview: 1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-23
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Titane
Overview: A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-14
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The Beast
Overview: In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-02-07
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