Robert Benoît

Movies

Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
Marrast
The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
Ils appellent ça un accident
Doctor Jeanlin
A woman's only son is killed through the negligence of his doctor. Her husband, in practice at the same clinic, colludes in the cover-up. How will the mother react to the fact that 'they call that an accident'? An obscure thriller, the first directorial effort of its star, Nathalie Delon (who also scripted it); it features music by Steve Winwood and Marianne Faithfull, including her splendidly sour song 'Guilt';
Au bout du chemin
Screenplay
Au bout du chemin
le comédien
Shadow of a Chance
Michel Caral
Mathias is an anarchist who lives with his 27 year old son, Michel, in late 1960s type communal weirdness.
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's conscience. What does Jeanne want?
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
(uncredited)
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Erotissimo
Olaf dans le film Nymphomania, ma sœur (non crédité)
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends, Annie starts feeling left aside by her husband, and trying to attract in a number of ways - and failing. It's not the all-purpose secretary at the office that is keeping him late, it's a tax expert that, asking the most innocent questions, is finding out how Philippe can manage a company without profits, and still manage a home, may be two... with high quality levels.
La prairie
Strange Game
Frédéric
In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.
A Woman in White
Yves Hugon
Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she set her doubts and desires in a society where the square and the plight of women remain at that time a secondary issue. The film follows Claude and the staff through the case of some patients while the crucial debate on women's professional ambition, contraception and abortion rights.
The Depths
Buyer
A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years.