Pascal Bonitzer

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Birthday
Feb 01, 1946 (79 years old)

Pascal Bonitzer

Known For

La Fille d'un grand amour
1h 34m
Movie 2025

La Fille d'un grand amour

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.

Agathe, Solange and Me
1h 11m
Movie 2024

Agathe, Solange and Me

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.

Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited
1h 34m
Movie 2024

Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited

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

The Clouzot Scandal
1h 0m
Movie 2017

The Clouzot Scandal

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.

Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
1h 20m
Movie 2014

Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence

À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma
1h 18m
Movie 2011

À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma

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.

Encore
1h 36m
Movie 1996

Encore

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.

Three Lives and Only One Death
2h 3m
Movie 1996

Three Lives and Only One Death

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.

The Sky Above Paris
1h 30m
Movie 1992

The Sky Above Paris

Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else.

L'Homme aux cheveux bleus
0h 50m
Movie 1989

L'Homme aux cheveux bleus

From the first meeting with the critic Louis Marcorelles to his last interview in Cahiers du cinéma, a portrait of Glauber Rocha, a leading figure of Cinema Novo, enriched with testimonies from his close friends such as Juliet Berto and Christiana Tullio Altan.

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.

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