Benoît Jacquot

Benoît Jacquot

Born: February 5, 1947
in Paris, France
Benoît Jacquot is a French film director and screenwriter who has had a varied career in European cinema.

Movies for Benoît Jacquot...

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
Title: Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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By Heart
Title: By Heart
Character: Voice
Released: December 28, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Title: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Character: Captain Welcoming Arysum
Released: July 20, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Chinese Puzzle
Title: Chinese Puzzle
Character: le père de Xavier
Released: December 4, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Joan
Title: Joan
Released: November 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Jeanne is interned in a psychiatric hospital. She claims to be Joan of Arc.
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Rendez-vous chez Lacan
Title: Rendez-vous chez Lacan
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Lubitsch, le patron
Title: Lubitsch, le patron
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 2010
Type: Movie
A documentary about the life and career of film director Ernst Lubitsch
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Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Title: Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 11, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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The Ministries of Art
Title: The Ministries of Art
Character: Self
Released: February 11, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Short Memory
Title: Short Memory
Character: Le secrétaire de Monsieur Mann
Released: March 3, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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Le Navire Night
Title: Le Navire Night
Character: (voice)
Released: March 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other. These people, shipwrecked lovers, are dying to love, to escape the abyss of solitude.
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The Theatre of the Matters
Title: The Theatre of the Matters
Character: L'ecrivain
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Title: Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Released: June 2, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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India Song
Title: India Song
Character: Voix de la Réception (voice)
Released: June 4, 1975
Type: Movie
In 1937 Calcutta, the wife of the French ambassador takes on many lovers.