Bertrand Bonello

Bertrand Bonello

Born: September 11, 1968
in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
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.

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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Réalisateur fond vert (voice)
Released: February 7, 2024
Type: Movie
In the not too distant future, a woman attempts to undergo a mind-altering procedure to erase her feelings of unhappiness and trauma.
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Corpus Delicti
Title: Corpus Delicti
Released: November 19, 2023
Type: Movie
"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.
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Titane
Title: Titane
Character: Alexia’s Father
Released: July 14, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Title: Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Character: Self
Released: May 18, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Rouge
Title: Rouge
Character: Bertrand
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Portrait of the Artist
Title: Portrait of the Artist
Character: Bertrand
Released: March 15, 2015
Type: Movie
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...
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Saint Laurent
Title: Saint Laurent
Character: Journaliste Libé
Released: September 23, 2014
Type: Movie
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
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Where Are You, Bertrand Bonello?
Title: Where Are You, Bertrand Bonello?
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Crítico
Title: Crítico
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Making-of :
Title: Making-of : "We Should Not Exist"
Released: March 28, 2007
Type: Movie
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We Should Not Exist
Title: We Should Not Exist
Released: May 23, 2006
Type: Movie
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...
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The Bridge of Arts
Title: The Bridge of Arts
Character: Un spectateur du Nô
Released: November 10, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Children of Salò
Title: Children of Salò
Character: Self
Released: October 24, 2002
Type: Movie
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Qui je suis
Title: Qui je suis
Character: Pylade
Released: June 30, 1996
Type: Movie
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.