Pascal Bonitzer
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Biography: Pascal Bonitzer (born 1 February 1946) is a French screenwriter, film director, actor, and former film critic for Cahiers du cinéma. He has written for 48 films and has appeared in 30 films since 1967. He starred in Raúl Ruiz's 1978 film The Suspended Vocation. He has a daughter, actress Agathe Bonitzer, with filmmaker Sophie Fillières. Source: Article "Pascal Bonitzer" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: February 01, 1946
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Gender: Male
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Son of Gascogne
Overview: You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-18
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The Suspended Vocation
Overview: The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-07-27
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The Key
Overview: Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de récupérer les cendres de son père. D'abord réticent, il finit par accepter et se retrouve plongé au coeur d'une machination infernale.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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Winter's Child
Overview: Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-06-14
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Don't Forget You're Going to Die
Overview: Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty, he tries everything he can to avoid it, eventually launching into a hedonistic lifestyle—out of control with drugs, alcohol, and nightclubs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-01-03
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Betty Fisher and Other Stories
Overview: When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother resorts to unusual actions to alleviate Betty's grief, actions which set off a chain reaction among a promiscuous waitress and her criminal associates.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-01
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Why (Not) Brazil?
Overview: A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-15
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The Red Shade
Overview: The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no fault of their own, fear drives one of them to suicide while the other gets his lover and her child and begins a run for his life, knowing that the KGB will never let him go free.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-28
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Chantrapas
Overview: A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship in his homeland, Soviet Georgia, Niko decides to move to France, only to find that he has merely traded one type of interference for another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-21
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Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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The Sky Above Paris
Overview: Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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Chasing Butterflies
Overview: Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the hands of Japanese businessmen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-04
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Daniel Asleep
Overview: The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-06-25
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Rouge-gorge
Overview: After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her studies in history and has a good friend, Frédéric, a medical student who wouldn't mind being more than just that. Around her, strange fellows attract her attention. Who is Philippe, allegedly Louis's stockbroker? And what about Marguerite who presents herself as her father's former secretary? Even more puzzling is the video cassette she finds in her father's place, showing young motorbikers distributing bundles of banknotes. Some time later, Charles, one of the bikers appearing on the video, rings the doorbell: he is wounded.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-06
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Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited
Overview: Robert Fischer’s CINEMA REDEFINED: JACQUES RIVETTE’S L’AMOUR FOU REVISITED features new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitzer; Rivette biographer Antoine de Baecque; critic/historian Sylvie Pierre; and archival footage of Jacques Rivette
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-04-02
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Encore
Overview: The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really let himself go. Though a successful writer, and supposedly working on a book about 'regret,' he is barely functioning. He can't sleep at night. During the day he is easily distracted, irresponsible and moody. He also ignores his patient live-in lover Aliette who has stuck by him for 10 years. As he mopes through another day, he gets into several awkward occasions. One of his students, Florence tells him off in a café. A young woman, Catherine hears this and afterward introduces herself as a fan. Later he decides to find her address and visit her apartment. There Abel meets Catherine's roommate Aurore and the former's jealous boyfriend Bruno for a tense scene. He is returning home when Abel encounters his brother's former lover Olga and this creates more awkwardness.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-25
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The Clouzot Scandal
Overview: Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-17
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Nothing About Robert
Overview: Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-24
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Snakes and Ladders
Overview: A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-17
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The One-Eyed Man
Overview: With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Cinématon XIV
Overview: Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-08
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Genealogies of a Crime
Overview: An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-04
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À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma
Overview: Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, former editors at Cahiers du Cinema, interview their former colleagues and fellow travellers during the "Red Years" of the journal between 1968 and1973.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Stray Bullets
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-13
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Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Overview: Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-20
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Simone Barbès or Virtue
Overview: Simone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and pass the time. At midnight Simone departs to a lesbian nightclub.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
Overview: The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one ambition - to play the lead role in a Kung Fu epic. But hours of Kung Fu practice alone in his room are not enough. Augustin knows he must pack up and start a new life in China... or at least that part of China within bicycling distance: Chinatown in south-east Paris. There he meets Ling (Maggie Cheung), a young Chinese woman who practices ocupuncture, and little by little, Ling's needles awaken emotions in Augustin that his virginal body had never dreamed of. Where will this lead him? To Kung Fu stardom, maybe not, but to another destiny, a quirky but logical continuation of the same dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-08-25
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La Fille d'un grand amour
Overview: Ana and Yves loved each other passionately, then parted ways. Years later, their daughter Cécile made a documentary about their meeting. They meet again. Still scarred by their past love, they set out to find a way back to each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-08
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Agathe, Solange and Me
Overview: Agathe embarks on a journey to uncover the life of her grandmother, Solange, an artist and writer whose story intertwines with history, memory, and loss. Joined by filmmaker Louise, an old friend, they navigate family films, letters, and the past to connect generations. Through Agathe’s search, the documentary reveals buried emotions and traces a legacy across time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-04-29
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Les Infortunes de la beauté
Overview: This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and trying to define beauty. Daphne is a lovely women who is nonetheless unsure about her looks, compounded by the fact that she's fallen in love with Vincent, who has a policy of only dating models. Daphne's best friend Celine comes up with an idea -- she'll get her pal Jacques to paint a nude portrait of Daphne. When Vincent sees the painting, he'll be more attracted to the woman who posed for it, leading him to her doorstep. But of course, it isn't quite that simple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-08-11
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