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Pascal Bonitzer

Pascal Bonitzer

French film director and screenwriter
February 1, 1946 (78 years old)
Fr. 2024. Drama by Pascal Bonitzer with Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi. An auctioneer comes into possession of a painting by Egon Schiele, a masterpiece stolen by the Nazis and missing since 1939.
Runtime: 91 min.

The Young Karl Marx

V.O.: Der Junge Karl Marx
All. 2016. Biography by Raoul Peck with August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps. The circumstances surrounding the writing of the
Runtime: 118 min.

The Innocents

V.O.: Les Innocentes
Fr. 2015. History by Anne Fontaine with Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza. In 1945 Poland, a young intern of the French Red Cross secretly helps nuns who have become pregnant after being raped by Soviet soldiers.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Anne Fontaine with Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng. In Normandy, a baker with a passion for literature observes the extramarital problems faced by an English neighbor who reminds him of the famous heroine in a novel by Flaubert.
Runtime: 99 min.

Looking for Hortense

V.O.: Cherchez Hortense
Fr. 2012. Dramatic comedy by Pascal Bonitzer with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott Thomas, Isabelle Carré. Lacking the courage to ask his father, a state councilor, to prevent the deportation of an undocumented Serbian woman, a professor gets caught in a web of lies.
Runtime: 100 min.

Around a Small Mountain

V.O.: 36 Vues du pic Saint-Loup
Fr. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Jacques Rivette with Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon. A mysterious traveler helps the grieving daughter of a small circus owner make peace with a tragic event from her past.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2008. Police comedy by Pascal Bonitzer with Miou-Miou, Maurice Bénichou, Lambert Wilson. The investigation of a psychiatrist’s murder that occurred during a weekend at the country estate of a senator.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2006. Dramatic comedy by Pascal Bonitzer with Édouard Baer, Géraldine Pailhas, Marina de Van. An unbalanced woman provokes the jealousy of the new wife of her ex-husband, a prominent Parisian editor, when she tries to get back into his life.
Runtime: 82 min.

The Duchess of Langeais

V.O.: Ne touchez pas la hache
Fr. 2006. Psychological drama by Jacques Rivette with Guillaume Depardieu, Jeanne Balibar, Bulle Ogier. In the 19th century in Paris, a general in Napoleon's army falls madly in love with a duchess who continually adds to his torment by rejecting his advances.
Runtime: 137 min.
Fr. 2003. Sentimental drama by Jacques Rivette with Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Emmanuelle Béart, Anne Brochet. A watchmaker in love with a mysterious woman blackmails an antique dealer who seems to know a lot about the woman he loves.
Runtime: 151 min.
Fr. 2003. Mores drama by Josée Dayan with Cyrille Thouvenin, Nicole Garcia, Jeanne Moreau. A young man living in harmony with his parents and an aunt causes a stir when he falls in love with his father's mistress.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Pascal Bonitzer with Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Pascale Bussières. A disenchanted communist journalist in love witb several women at once has a strange experience in a wood near Grenoble.
Fr. 2001. Sentimental comedy by Jacques Rivette with Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Jacques Bonnaffé. Sentimental crossroads around a French actress living in Rome who sees her ex-lover again during a tour of Paris.
Runtime: 154 min.

Betty Fisher and Other Stories

V.O.: Betty Fisher et autres histoires
Fr. 2001. Psychological drama by Claude Miller with Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner. A mentally unstable woman kidnaps an unloved child to replace her romance novelist daughter's dead child.
Runtime: 101 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2001. Psychological drama by Marie-France Pisier with Marie-France Pisier, Bérénice Bejo, Guillaume Depardieu. The rocky relationship between a mother, who has just had a double mammectomy, and her two teenage children.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2000. History by Raoul Peck with Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Maka Kotto. In 1961, a few months after being elected head of the first independent government of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba is assassinated.
Runtime: 109 min.
Runtime: 81 min.
Fr. 1998. Mores comedy by Pascal Bonitzer with Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Valentina Cervi. After a professional blunder, a critic finds his girlfriend questioning their relationship.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1997. Crime drama by Abdelkrim Bahloul with Philippe Volter, Gamil Ratib, Boris Terral. In Paris, a detective investigating a murder is looking for a key witness in the city's Muslim community.
Runtime: 93 min.

Thieves

V.O.: Les Voleurs
Fr. 1996. Psychological drama by André Téchiné with Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve, Laurence Côte.
Runtime: 117 min.

Trois Vies et une seule mort

V.O.: Trois Vies & une seule mort
Fr. 1995. Dramatic comedy by Raúl Ruiz with Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1993. Mores drama by John Lvoff with Marie Bunel, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Todeschini. The erosion of a couple of yuppies comfortably installed in a beautiful apartment in Lyon.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1993. History by Jacques Rivette with Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard. In 1428, thanks to certain divine revelations, a young country girl took command of an army to deliver Orleans from the hands of the English.
Runtime: 160 min.

My Favorite Season

V.O.: Ma saison préférée
Fr. 1993. Psychological drama by André Téchiné with Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga. After three years of broken relationships, various family problems finally bring a middle-aged brother and sister together.
Runtime: 122 min.

Night and Day

V.O.: Nuit et jour
Bel. 1991. Sentimental drama by Chantal Akerman with Guilaine Londez, Thomas Langmann, François Negret. A Parisian woman is seduced by the colleague of her cab driver fianc
Runtime: 90 min.

Divertimento

V.O.: La Belle Noiseuse
Fr. 1991. Psychological drama by Jacques Rivette with Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart. A young woman who poses for a painter sees her life transformed by the experience.
Runtime: 125 min.
Fr. 1989. Drama by Jacques Deray with Béatrice Dalle, Philippe Volter, Geneviève Page. A young actress, unable to bear the austere life of the country lord she has just married, soon announces her intention to leave him.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1985. Mores drama by André Téchiné with Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi. A woman's tidy life is turned upside down when her son meets a prison escapee.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1985. Musical by Chantal Akerman with Delphine Seyrig, Fanny Cottençon, Charles Denner. The loving exchanges between the employees of a clothing store and a hairdressing salon facing each other in a shopping mall.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1984. Psychological drama by Pierre Zucca with Philippe Léotard, Laetitia Léotard, Jérôme Zucca. A teenage girl takes advantage of one of her father's many absences to discover his true personality.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 91 min.
Runtime: 112 min.

The Bronte Sisters

V.O.: Les Soeurs Brontë
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1976. Mores drama by René Allio with Claude Hébert, Jacqueline Millière, Joseph Leportier. The confession of a man who massacred his family in the nineteenth century.
Runtime: 125 min.

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