Benoît JacquotFilmography

Born:: February 5, 1947 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Despite being a somewhat elliptical figure who has remained a relative unknown outside of his native France, film director Benoît Jacquot has still managed to garner a devoted following. Jacquot's visually stylized films often explore the innermost impulses of his fellow man (and woman), and his...Read More

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Villa Amalia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Xavier Beauvois, Maya Sansa, Clara Bindi

Synopsis: Legendary French screen actress Isabelle Huppert headlines this sumptuous, passionate tale, adapted from a novel by belletrist Pascal Quignard (All the Mornings of the World). Huppert stars as Ann, a gifted and brilliant, middle-aged musician whose sense of security falls to pieces when she Read More

4/9/09
The Untouchable

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Isild Le Besco, Bérangere Bonvoisin, Marc Barbé, Parikshit Luthra, Manuel Munz, Louis-Dominique de Lencquesaing

Synopsis: A woman sets out to discover the truth about her heritage in this drama from filmmaker Benoit Jacquot. Jeanne (Isild Le Besco) is a young woman who has begun to enjoy success as an actress. While visiting her mother on her birthday, Jeanne is made party to a long-held family secret -- her father Read More

2006
À Tout de Suite

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isild Le Besco, Ouassini Embarek, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Laurence Cordier, Fotini Kodoukkaki

Synopsis: Four nameless people are brought together by crime and circumstances in this visually striking drama. A naïve young woman (Isild Le Besco) who studies art and lives with her wealthy family goes to a nightclub one evening and meets a mysterious young man of Moroccan heritage (Ouassini Embarek). The Read More

4/29/05
Princess Marie

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Heinz Bennent, Anne Bennent, Sebastian Koch, Elisabeth Orth

2004
Tosca

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagana, Ruggero Raimondi, David Cangelosi, Sorin Coliban

Synopsis: The tragedy of Puccini's heartbreaking romance comes to life on stage in this production starring Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, and Ruggero Raimondi and directed by Beniot Jacquot. The Royal Opera House - Covent Garden performs Puccini's timeless score as Antonio Pappano conducts. ~ Jason Read More

7/12/02
Adolphe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Stanislas Merhar, Jean Yanne, Romain Duris, Jean-Louis Richard

Synopsis: Adolphe, French director Benoît Jacquot's adaptation of Benjamin Constant's novel of the same name, tells the story of a young man's passion for 30-year-old Ellenore (Isabelle Adjani). After much resistance, Ellenore falls for Adolphe (Stanislas Mehrar), only to find out that his love for her has Read More

2002
La Fausse Suivante

Crew: Director

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Alexandre Soulie

Synopsis: This droll comedy from France was based on a popular stage play by the 18th century author Marivaux. As a lark, an attractive young heiress (Sandrine Kiberlain) disguises herself as a man as she travels with a servant for a weekend getaway to the estate of her close friend the Countess (Isabelle Huppert Read More

2000
Sade

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Grégoire Colin

Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil stars as the infamous Marquis de Sade, who at the beginning of Sade, is serving a sentence in Paris' grim Saint Lazarde prison. The year is 1794, and Sade is being persecuted for his steadfast atheism, which runs counter to the beliefs of Robespierre, France's terrifying Read More

2000
Pas de scandale

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Lindon, Vahina Giocante, Sophie Aubry

Synopsis: An older man and a younger woman find love, with his time in jail the unlikely catalyst, in this witty drama from France. Gregoire (Fabrice Luchini) is a formerly prominent French industrialist whose financial misdealings resulted in a term behind bars, which was especially embarrassing for his Read More

1999
The School of Flesh

Crew: Director

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Martinez, Vincent Lindon, Marthe Keller, François Berléand

Synopsis: Benoit Jacquot directed this French drama about an older woman and a younger man, adapted from the novel by Yukio Mishima. When career woman Dominique (Isabelle Huppert) goes out to a nightclub one evening, her attraction to bartender Quentin (Vincent Martinez) is observed by cross-dressing Chris (Vincent Lindon Read More

11/18/98
Par coeur

Crew: Director

10/28/98
The Disenchanted

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Judith Godrëche, Marcel Bozonnet, Ivan Desny, Therese Liotard, Malcolm Conrath

Synopsis: Beth (Judith Godreche) is nearly an adult and has lived a fairly grim and unenchanting life. This is mirrored in her attraction to the similarly grim life and morose works of Arthur Rimbaud, about which she has become a quite noteworthy student. She lives at home with her mother and a younger Read More

5/27/98
Seventh Heaven

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon, François Berléand, Francine Bergé, Pierre Cassignard

Synopsis: Parisienne mother Mathilde (Sandrine Kiberlain), who shares a large apartment with her surgeon husband Nico (Vincent Lindon), sometimes works at the legal business run by her mother (Francine Berge). With a stagnant sex life, the bored Mathilde prowls department stores to steal toys for her son. Read More

12/17/97
La Vie de Marianne

Crew: Director

1997
A Single Girl

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Virginie Ledoyen, Benoît Magimel, Dominique Valadie, Vera Briole, Virginie Emane

Synopsis: As Valerie, 19-year-old Virginie Ledoyen is not just the titular Single Girl, but for all practical purposes, the entire movie. As the film opens, she meets her sullen, unemployed boyfriend Remi (Benoît Magimel) at a cafe, and reveals that she is pregnant with his child. She is not only unsure Read More

1995
3000 Scenarios Contre un Virus

Crew: Director

Actors: Anémone, Daniel Gélin, Patachou, François Cluzet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000 ideas put in by French school children and were made by filmmakers on a voluntary basis. Most of the vignettes deal with heterosexuality and AIDS, but one deals with drug-usage Read More

1994
The Beast of the Jungle

Crew: Director

1988
Buisson Ardent

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jessica Forde, Jean-Claude Adelin, Alice de Poncheville, Simon de la Brosse, Anne Brochet

Synopsis: Julie (Jessica Forde) and her childhood sweetheart Jean (Jean-Claude Adelin) are separated in this uneven but prize-winning romantic drama. When Jean is shipped off to live with his aristocratic father, Julie later becomes engaged to Henri (Simon de la Brosse), a young man from her own social Read More

1987
Les Mendiants

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Anne Roussel, Assane Fall, Pierre Forget

Synopsis: This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while women steal other women's men from them just to prove they can. Drug smuggling, clandestine love affairs, and two lovers involved with the production Read More

1987
Corps Et Biens

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Lambert Wilson, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: In a standard tale of intrigue and foul play, Michel Sauvage (Lambert Wilson) has just gotten away with murder and is now marrying rich heiress Ariane (Ingrid Held) in hopes of taking all she's worth. Unfortunately for Michel, the murder victim's hard-fisted, tippling neighbor Madam Krantz (Danielle Darrieux Read More

1986
Les Ailes de la Colombe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Dominique Sanda, Michele Placido, Jean Sorel, Loleh Bellon

Synopsis: Very loosely based on the plot of Henry James' Wing of the Dove, this film resets the story about two lovers trying to steal everything from a dying millionairess, by putting it in the late-20th century instead of late-19th century; it has the lovers be a French prostitute and Italian low-life Read More

5/6/81
Retour à la Bien-Aimée

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Bruno Ganz, Jean-François Adam, Jacques Dutronc

Synopsis: Julien (Jacques Dutronc) is a pianist who is determined to regain everything he lost when his wife Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert) divorced him, as much for revenge as for any other reason. He calmly stages a murder on the grounds of his ex-wife's home, carefully using her new husband Kern's (Bruno Read More

1979
Les Enfants Du Placard

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Georges Marchal, Jean Sorel, Isabelle Weingarten

Synopsis: Nicola (Lou Castel) bears the psychological scars of unbearable guilt. As a boy, he was given the job of looking after his mentally unstable mother and protecting her from herself. One day, he and his sister went instead into a large closet and enacted a childishly intensive "I dare you" bonding Read More

1977
Alfred Deller: Portrait of a Voice

Crew: Director

Actors: Alfred Deller

Synopsis: By any standard, operatic vocalist Alfred Deller (1912-79) retains enormous historical importance as the first significant countertenor in modern classical music. Born in Margate, England in 1912, Deller came to attention rather late in life, at the age of 34, with a celebrated performance of Read More

1976
L'Assassin Musicien

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Karina, Joel Bion, Helene Coulomb, Philippe March

Synopsis: The young man in this story is a dedicated musician, a clarinettist. He is, in fact, too dedicated, because he has very limited talents and abilities. Refusing to face the facts of his limitations, he is hard on himself and everyone around him. After the conductor of the orchestra he has been Read More

1975