Benoît Jacquot
Also Known As: Benoit Jacquot, Benuā Žako, 班諾賈克
Biography: 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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: February 05, 1947
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Overview: The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-06-02
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Chinese Puzzle
Overview: Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-04
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Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
Overview: She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with the filmmakers with whom she invented herself not to be a “cold blonde actress”, thanks to great interviews of many artists who crossed her path.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-22
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By Heart
Overview: It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini recites Nietzsche. Both actors are premiering at Avignon’s Festival. When they leave backstage to stand out on stage, they are completely transformed. As everything seems utterly natural, audience does not imagine what happened before. By following their daily lives during the weeks preceding the premieres, Benoît Jacquot brings a singular perspective of the two actors and shows them like we’ve never seen before.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-28
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Lubitsch, le patron
Overview: A documentary about the life and career of film director Ernst Lubitsch
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-05
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Short Memory
Overview: In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-03
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The Ministries of Art
Overview: Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-11
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Overview: In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-20
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India Song
Overview: Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-04
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Le Navire Night
Overview: Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman, terminally ill with leukemia, living in isolation at her wealthy father's villa, and a man working night shifts at a telephone company. They have never met in person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-21
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The Theatre of the Matters
Overview: The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-07
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Rendez-vous chez Lacan
Overview: Do you know Lacan, which many consider as the greatest psychoanalyst since Freud? Beyond the myth, the legends and sometimes, the curses, this film by Gérard Miller allows us to discover his work and his personality, through the testimony of his patients, his students, and also his relatives. Born with the XXth century into an upper-middle-class Catholic family, a psychiatrist by training, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of culture, a friend of Picasso, Levi-Strauss and Sartre, Lacan was a great theoretician, an outstanding practitioner, and he remains the most modern, the most challenging and even the most sulphurous of psychoanalysts. The director Gerard Miller met Lacan thanks to his brother, Jacques-Alain, the most faithful of his students, who married his daughter Judith. Their close and intense relationship makes this film exceptional.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-05
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Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Overview: Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination. The star is not one to let others get too close, but when she gives you her confidence, she keeps her word. If Deneuve’s career covers a half-century of cinema, it also bears witness to the force of a generation that experienced the deepest transformation of mores. This portrait reflects her entirely. The story of a mystery and an adventure.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-11
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Joan
Overview: Jeanne is interned in a psychiatric hospital. She claims to be Joan of Arc.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-17
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Looking for Hortense
Overview: Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a mountain of routine and disenchantment. To help keep Zorica from getting deported, Iva gets Damien to promise he’ll go to his father, a state department official, for help. But Damien and his father have a distant and cool relationship. And this mission is a risky business which will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-05
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