Pascal Bonitzer

Pascal Bonitzer

Birthday: 1946-02-01

Place of Birth: Paris, France

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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Son of Gascogne
Son of Gascogne

You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous di...

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The Suspended Vocation
The Suspended Vocation

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor i...

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The Key
The Key

Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d...

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Winter's Child
Winter's Child

Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sab...

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Don't Forget You're Going to Die
Don't Forget You're Going to Die

Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include h...

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Betty Fisher and Other Stories
Betty Fisher and Other Stories

When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother...

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Why (Not) Brazil?
Why (Not) Brazil?

A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best se...

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The Red Shade
The Red Shade

The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communi...

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Chantrapas
Chantrapas

A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired ...

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Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence

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The Sky Above Paris
The Sky Above Paris

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

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Chasing Butterflies
Chasing Butterflies

Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inh...

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Daniel Asleep
Daniel Asleep

The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself....

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Rouge-gorge
Rouge-gorge

After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with...

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

New interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitze...

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Encore
Encore

The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of thi...

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The Clouzot Scandal
The Clouzot Scandal

Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), ...

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Nothing About Robert
Nothing About Robert

Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him...

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Snakes and Ladders
Snakes and Ladders

A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expandin...

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The One-Eyed Man
The One-Eyed Man

With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to lif...

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Cinématon XIV
Cinématon XIV

Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....

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Genealogies of a Crime
Genealogies of a Crime

An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to st...

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

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Stray Bullets
Stray Bullets

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Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne
Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne

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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same ...

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Simone Barbès or Virtue
Simone Barbès or Virtue

Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observ...

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Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young ac...

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La Fille d'un grand amour
La Fille d'un grand amour

Ana and Yves loved each other passionately, then parted ways. Years later, their daughter Cécile mad...

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Agathe, Solange and Me
Agathe, Solange and Me

Agathe embarks on a journey to uncover the life of her grandmother, Solange, an artist and writer wh...

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Les Infortunes de la beauté
Les Infortunes de la beauté

This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and ...

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L'Homme aux cheveux bleus
L'Homme aux cheveux bleus

From the first meeting with the critic Louis Marcorelles to his last interview in Cahiers du cinéma,...

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Three Lives and Only One Death
Three Lives and Only One Death

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fai...

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Bâtons d'encens pour Mizoguchi
Bâtons d'encens pour Mizoguchi

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Conversation avec Pascal Bonitzer
Conversation avec Pascal Bonitzer

In a handful of deliberately and gently dark films, screenwriter and director Pascal Bonitzer has bu...

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