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Pascal Bonitzer

Pascal Bonitzer

French film director and screenwriter
February 1, 1946 (78 years old)

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.

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. 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.
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. 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. 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.

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.

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.
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.

Window Shopping

V.O.: Golden Eighties
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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