Pascal Bonitzer
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.
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| Known For | Writing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4789 |
| Birthday | 1946-02-01 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As |
1995
Son of Gascogne
5.143/7
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because t...
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Son of Gascogne
1978
The Suspended Vocation
6.571/7
The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with vario...
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The Suspended Vocation
2007
The Key
5.3/27
Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resu...
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The Key
1989
Winter's Child
6.5/11
Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violen...
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Winter's Child
1996
Don't Forget You're Going to Die
6.646/24
Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty,...
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Don't Forget You're Going to Die
2001
Betty Fisher and Other Stories
6.133/30
When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother resorts to unusual actions to alleviate Betty's g...
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Betty Fisher and Other Stories
2004
Why (Not) Brazil?
4.222/9
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book ada...
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Why (Not) Brazil?
1981
The Red Shade
5.273/11
The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is t...
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The Red Shade
2011
Chantrapas
4.3/7
A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship in...
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Chantrapas
2014
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
0/0
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Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
1992
The Sky Above Paris
5.577/13
Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else.
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The Sky Above Paris
1992
Chasing Butterflies
5.846/13
Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the hand...
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Chasing Butterflies
1988
Daniel Asleep
10/1
The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself.
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Daniel Asleep
1985
Robin
5.063/8
After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment....
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Robin
2024
Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited
0/0
New interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitzer; Rivette biographer Antoine de Baecque; critic/h...
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Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited
1996
Encore
5.929/7
The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really l...
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Encore
2017
The Clouzot Scandal
6.5/8
Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the...
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The Clouzot Scandal
1999
Nothing About Robert
6.047/53
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.
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Nothing About Robert
1980
Snakes and Ladders
6.583/12
A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.
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Snakes and Ladders
1980
The One-Eyed Man
9/1
With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.
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The One-Eyed Man
1981
Cinématon XIV
0/0
Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon XIV
1997
Genealogies of a Crime
6.565/31
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
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Genealogies of a Crime
2011
À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma
0/0
Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, former editors at Cahiers du Cinema, interview their former colleagues and fellow travellers during the "Red Year...
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À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma
1983
Stray Bullets
9/1
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Stray Bullets
1969
Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne
0/0
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Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne
2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
7/1
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...
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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
1980
Simone Barbès or Virtue
5.435/23
Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observing eccentric customers in the cinema’s lobby. Ton...
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Simone Barbès or Virtue
1999
Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
7.281/16
The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one a...
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Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
2025
La Fille d'un grand amour
5.2/21
Ana and Yves loved each other passionately, then parted ways. Years later, their daughter Cécile made a documentary about their meeting. They meet aga...
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La Fille d'un grand amour
2024
Agathe, Solange and Me
7.2/5
Agathe embarks on a journey to uncover the life of her grandmother, Solange, an artist and writer whose story intertwines with history, memory, and lo...
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Agathe, Solange and Me
1999
Les Infortunes de la beauté
3.75/4
This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and trying to define beauty. Daphne is a lovely women...
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Les Infortunes de la beauté
1989
L'Homme aux cheveux bleus
0/0
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...
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L'Homme aux cheveux bleus
1996
Three Lives and Only One Death
6.456/45
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...
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Three Lives and Only One Death
2004
Bâtons d'encens pour Mizoguchi
9/1
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Bâtons d'encens pour Mizoguchi
2025
Conversation avec Pascal Bonitzer
0/0
In a handful of deliberately and gently dark films, screenwriter and director Pascal Bonitzer has built a body of work that is both fierce and gentle....
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