Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista

Nacimiento : 1961-09-01, Choisy-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne, France

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Tonino Benacquista (born in Choisy-le-Roi on 1 September 1961) is an award-winning French crime fiction author, comics writer, and screenwriter. He wrote the novel Malavita (Badfellas for 2010 English translation), which was later adapted into a film by Relativity Media andEuropaCorp titled The Family; it was released on September 13, 2013, in North America. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tonino Benacquista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Tonino Benacquista

Películas

A Crime
Author
La vida de Vincent sólo volverá a tener sentido el día en que el asesino de su mujer sea detenido. Su vecina Alice, convencida de que puede devolverle la felicidad, decide inventar un culpable ficticio, para que Vincent pueda vengarse y dejar atrás su pasado.
De latir mi  corazón se ha parado
Screenplay
Tom tiene 28 años y está destinado a seguir los pasos de su padre en el sórdido y a veces brutal negocio inmobiliario. Pero, gracias a un encuentro casual, concibe la ilusión de que puede llegar a ser, como su madre, un pianista. Con gran determinación, comienza a prepararse para una audición con una virtuosa pianista china. Como ella no habla ni una palabra de francés, la música será el único medio de comunicación entre ambos. En estas circunstancias, su trabajo diario le resultará cada vez más sórdido e insoportable.
The Overeater
Writer
Séléna is chief of the Marseille police. Respected and feared by his men, his sole enemy seems to be himself, along with his 300 pounds. Strangled by the bursting straight-jacket of his body, tortured by his past, he leads a solitary life in a large isolated house. Séléna is the only person who knows that Elsa was guilty of the murder of her uncle, a wealthy shipowner. Fascinated by the young woman’s beauty, he offers her a strange deal: in exchange for his silence, he demands that she dines with him every night for a year.
Lee mis labios
Screenplay
La secretaria de una constructora (Emmanuelle Devos), una joven sorda y desaliñada, tiene la costumbre de bajar el volumen de su audífono cuando el mundo se vuelve demasiado problemático. Un día, Paul (Vincent Cassel), estafador y expresidiario, visita la oficina en busca de empleo. Su aparición hace que ella se decida a subir el volumen del audífono.
Love Bites
Novel
Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly bodyguards into the office of the host, von Bulow, who won't accept Antoine's admission of lying, gives him $100,000, and promises $900,000 more when led to Jordan. Enticed by the money, Antoine, with the help of his friend Étienne, begins his search. He follows trails through Paris's night scene, gets beaten up and bitten, and meets Jordan's sister, Violaine. After a surreal night, he's hooked on her charms but leery of continuing his pursuit of Jordan. Von Bulow insists. Can he find Jordan, get his reward, and attract Violaine?
The Ceiling
Original Story
In his small apartment, a middle-aged man has reached the end of his tether. He has become indifferent, even to his only true passion, classical music. He decides to end it all. But his plans are thwarted by the jarring sounds from his new neighbor above, a novice celloist. They end up trading selected musical pieces in a ruthless duell...
The Heart at Work
Screenplay
A porn film director convinces his producer to make a romantic film, but the cast is grappling with tensions in their private lives.
Evasions
Writer
In the hot summer of 1940 the German troops are just outside Paris, and numerous Parisians are leaving the city in a complete panic. Luce Ader, the sensitive daughter of a factory owner, decides somewhat belatedly to escape as well, together with her arrogant fiancé Bruno. Since they have a luxury automobile, the elderly society lady Daine Lessing decides to join them, and brings along the sensitive homosexual diplomat with her. The four of them finally leave the city in the hopelessly overloaded luxury car, only to get stuck in the middle of a seemingly endless column of refugees along a dusty road outside Paris...
Hard Off
Writer
This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform in bed. His wife says she is satisfied with Claude's love and tenderness, but he visits a sex specialist anyway. There he learns of Viagra, which is not yet approved in France, though it is available in Switzerland over the counter. Soon Claude is on his way to Geneva, and eager to prove his manhood, tries to bed Agnes, his very attractive and very available assistant. His daughter, who also comes along for the trip, interferes with her own problems.
Couchettes express
Novel
Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Bernard, for protection. He suffers from an unknown illness and he is not alone on the run for scholars who want to use him as a guinea pig, but also for Brandeburg, a trader in human organs.