Benoît Jacquot

It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini recites Nietzsche. Both actors are premiering at Avignon’s Festival. When they leave backstage to stand out on stage, they are completely transformed. As everything seems utterly natural, audience does not imagine what happened before. By following their daily lives during the weeks preceding the premieres, Benoît Jacquot brings a singular perspective of the two actors and shows them like we’ve never seen before.

It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini recites Nietzsche. Both actors are premiering at Avignon’s Festival. When they leave backstage to stand out on stage, they are completely transformed. As everything seems utterly natural, audience does not imagine what happened before. By following their daily lives during the weeks preceding the premieres, Benoît Jacquot brings a singular perspective of the two actors and shows them like we’ve never seen before.

It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini recites Nietzsche. Both actors are premiering at Avignon’s Festival. When they leave backstage to stand out on stage, they are completely transformed. As everything seems utterly natural, audience does not imagine what happened before. By following their daily lives during the weeks preceding the premieres, Benoît Jacquot brings a singular perspective of the two actors and shows them like we’ve never seen before.

Suzanna Andler é uma adaptação cinematográfica da peça homônima de Marguerite Dura. Na década de 1960, Suzanna Andler é o retrato de uma mulher de 40 anos infeliz, presa em seu casamento com um empresário rico e infiel. Para fugir da realidade, ela faz uma viagem para uma casa de praia na Riviera acompanhada de Michel, seu jovem amante. Lá, Suzanna percebe que deve escolher entre seu destino convencional, como esposa e mãe, e sua liberdade, personificada em seu jovem amante.

Suzanna Andler é uma adaptação cinematográfica da peça homônima de Marguerite Dura. Na década de 1960, Suzanna Andler é o retrato de uma mulher de 40 anos infeliz, presa em seu casamento com um empresário rico e infiel. Para fugir da realidade, ela faz uma viagem para uma casa de praia na Riviera acompanhada de Michel, seu jovem amante. Lá, Suzanna percebe que deve escolher entre seu destino convencional, como esposa e mãe, e sua liberdade, personificada em seu jovem amante.

Casanova, conhecido por gostar de participar de diversão e esbórnia, chega em Londres após deixar o exílio. Nesse novo lugar, ele conhece Marianne de Charpillon, uma moça que o atrai a ponto de fazê-lo deixar sua vida de conquistador de lado.

Casanova, conhecido por gostar de participar de diversão e esbórnia, chega em Londres após deixar o exílio. Nesse novo lugar, ele conhece Marianne de Charpillon, uma moça que o atrai a ponto de fazê-lo deixar sua vida de conquistador de lado.

In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863, the painting caused a scandal: the prostitute awaits her client, her expression proud, her demeanour assured. Is this Violetta? Like Olympia, Verdi’s most celebrated heroine surrenders to the spectator just as she surrenders to love, going so far as to die on stage, a woman’s ultimate sacrifice for her lover. Or might it be the spectator who strips her bare and intrudes upon her privacy, in the image of this milieu of social voyeurism? Whatever the case, these two women regard us with defiance and subjugate those who cannot help but look at them.

A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.

A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.

Século XXVIII. Valérian é um agente viajante do tempo e do espaço que luta ao lado da parceira Laureline, por quem é apaixonado, em defesa da Terra e seus planetas aliados, continuamente atacados por bandidos intergaláticos. Quando chegam no planeta Alpha, eles precisarão acabar com uma operação comandada por grandes forças que deseja destruir os sonhos e as vidas dos dezessete milhões de habitantes do planeta.

Jacques Rey (Mathieu Amalric) e Laura (Julia Roy) moram em uma grande casa isolada pelo mar. Ele é um cineasta e ela atua em performances que cria. Rey morre. Sem saber a causa da morte, Laura fica sozinha na casa e, aos poucos vai se perdendo, deixa de ser ela mesma. Porém, alguém está na casa, Rey, seu marido falecido que está lá por e para ela, como um longo sonho que quer que ela sobreviva.

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther should travel – but not forget her. Benoît Jacquot’s production of Massenet’s tragic opera explores the conflict between duty and our most passionate desires.

A tale by Pierre Rissient: How I became a cinema lover in France and in the USA.

Following her performances in recent seasons in Verdi’s La travita on the world’s major opera stages – the Metropolitan, New York, La Scala, Milan, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Paris Opera – Diana Damrau has become the primary interpreter of Violetta, arguably opera’s most iconic character. This DVD release is from Paris Opera production of June 2014, when the German soprano appeared in a new production – inspired by the paintings of Manet – by the film director Benoit Jacquot. This critically acclaimed production was conducted by Francesco Ivan Ciampa, with a cast including Francesco Demuro and Ludovic Tezier.

No início do século 20, nas províncias francesas, uma jovem camareira muito cobiçada por conta de sua beleza chamada Célestine, acaba de chegar de Paris para trabalhar para a família Lanlaire. Enquanto foge dos avanços de seu senhor, ela deve lidar com a rigorosa personalidade de Madame Lanlaire, que governa o lar com punho de ferro. Ao mesmo tempo, Célestine conhece Joseph, um misterioso jardineiro que exerce fascínio total sobre ela.

No início do século 20, nas províncias francesas, uma jovem camareira muito cobiçada por conta de sua beleza chamada Célestine, acaba de chegar de Paris para trabalhar para a família Lanlaire. Enquanto foge dos avanços de seu senhor, ela deve lidar com a rigorosa personalidade de Madame Lanlaire, que governa o lar com punho de ferro. Ao mesmo tempo, Célestine conhece Joseph, um misterioso jardineiro que exerce fascínio total sobre ela.

Após perder seu trem noturno de volta para Paris, Marc conhece Sylvie em uma pequena cidade francesa. O encontro revela aos dois uma surpreendente afinidade e, juntos, eles andam pelas ruas até o amanhecer conversando sobre tudo, menos sobre si mesmos.

Após perder seu trem noturno de volta para Paris, Marc conhece Sylvie em uma pequena cidade francesa. O encontro revela aos dois uma surpreendente afinidade e, juntos, eles andam pelas ruas até o amanhecer conversando sobre tudo, menos sobre si mesmos.

Xavier tem agora 40 anos. Assim como Wendy, Isabelle e Martine. Aos 40 anos você deve levar uma vida mais estável do que com 20 anos, mas não é o que acontece com Xavier. Ele progrediu em alguns aspectos, tornou-se escritor... mas no dia-a-dia sua vida está longe de estar estabilizada. Pior ainda é quando sua ex-mulher Wendy, mãe de seus 2 filhos, muda-se para Nova York com as crianças. Xavier não consegue ficar longe delas, então decide que se mudará também. Não demora muito para que os problemas comecem.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Jeanne is interned in a psychiatric hospital. She claims to be Joan of Arc.

A notícia da tomada da Bastilha chega à Corte, afugentando nobres e servos que abandonam o Rei Luís XVI. Uma jovem leitora devotada à Maria Antonieta ignora os acontecimentos e inicia uma relação com a rainha durante a Revolução Francesa.

A notícia da tomada da Bastilha chega à Corte, afugentando nobres e servos que abandonam o Rei Luís XVI. Uma jovem leitora devotada à Maria Antonieta ignora os acontecimentos e inicia uma relação com a rainha durante a Revolução Francesa.

Do you know Lacan, which many consider as the greatest psychoanalyst since Freud? Beyond the myth, the legends and sometimes, the curses, this film by Gérard Miller allows us to discover his work and his personality, through the testimony of his patients, his students, and also his relatives. Born with the XXth century into an upper-middle-class Catholic family, a psychiatrist by training, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of culture, a friend of Picasso, Levi-Strauss and Sartre, Lacan was a great theoretician, an outstanding practitioner, and he remains the most modern, the most challenging and even the most sulphurous of psychoanalysts. The director Gerard Miller met Lacan thanks to his brother, Jacques-Alain, the most faithful of his students, who married his daughter Judith. Their close and intense relationship makes this film exceptional.

Em 1865 Timothee, um vagabundo, chega a uma vila no sul da França a fingir que é surdo e mudo. Lá, ele fica impressionado com a beleza de uma jovem mulher, Josephine, e pede hospitalidade na casa do Dr. Hughes, pai dela. Ao jantar, ele faz truques esquisitos induzindo reações estranhas em Josephine. No dia seguinte, ele volta quando ela está sozinha e fá-la cair num estado de letargia hipnótica, antes de se aproveitar dela. Oprimida pelo seu poderoso dom hipnótico, ela segue-o mesmo que pareça estar repugnada e com medo dele. Ele leva-a às profundezas da floresta e continua a abusar dela até que é preso e julgado. Mas como aceitou Josephine segui-lo?

Em 1865 Timothee, um vagabundo, chega a uma vila no sul da França a fingir que é surdo e mudo. Lá, ele fica impressionado com a beleza de uma jovem mulher, Josephine, e pede hospitalidade na casa do Dr. Hughes, pai dela. Ao jantar, ele faz truques esquisitos induzindo reações estranhas em Josephine. No dia seguinte, ele volta quando ela está sozinha e fá-la cair num estado de letargia hipnótica, antes de se aproveitar dela. Oprimida pelo seu poderoso dom hipnótico, ela segue-o mesmo que pareça estar repugnada e com medo dele. Ele leva-a às profundezas da floresta e continua a abusar dela até que é preso e julgado. Mas como aceitou Josephine segui-lo?

A documentary about the life and career of film director Ernst Lubitsch

Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination. The star is not one to let others get too close, but when she gives you her confidence, she keeps her word. If Deneuve’s career covers a half-century of cinema, it also bears witness to the force of a generation that experienced the deepest transformation of mores. This portrait reflects her entirely. The story of a mystery and an adventure.

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther should travel - but not forget her. In addition to the singing and orchestral accompaniment, the entire cast acts very convincingly. And, there's no backstage mugging, entrances and spoken nonsense to spoil the experience of the drama.

The plot revolves around Bernard – a schoolfriend of Olivier's who is preparing for his bac – discovering he is a bastard and taking this as a welcome pretext for running away from home. He spends a night in Olivier's bed (where Olivier describes a recent visit to a prostitute and how he did not find the experience very enjoyable). After Bernard steals the suitcase belonging to Edouard, Olivier's uncle, and the ensuing complications, he is made Edouard's secretary. Olivier is jealous and ends up in the hands of the cynical and downright diabolical Comte de Passavant, who travels with him to the Mediterranean.

The plot revolves around Bernard – a schoolfriend of Olivier's who is preparing for his bac – discovering he is a bastard and taking this as a welcome pretext for running away from home. He spends a night in Olivier's bed (where Olivier describes a recent visit to a prostitute and how he did not find the experience very enjoyable). After Bernard steals the suitcase belonging to Edouard, Olivier's uncle, and the ensuing complications, he is made Edouard's secretary. Olivier is jealous and ends up in the hands of the cynical and downright diabolical Comte de Passavant, who travels with him to the Mediterranean.

Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.

Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.

After learning from her mother that her father lives in India, a young woman goes there to meet him for the first time.

After learning from her mother that her father lives in India, a young woman goes there to meet him for the first time.

Gaspard de Besse and his gang of highwaymen escaped the law for years in old monsieur de Morières's jurisdiction in rural, Ancient Régime France. When Gaspard is badly injured trough treason, he escapes after being seen in St.Anne's convent, where he hid, by de Morières's young, unwillingly arranged and unloving wife Anne. Gaspard makes a deal with the traitor to fake his demise. He recruits traveling actor Antoine and trains him like a son.

A girl from bourgeoisie discovers the pleasures of banditism, following her lover in his lifestyle.

A girl from bourgeoisie discovers the pleasures of banditism, following her lover in his lifestyle.

The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.

In the nineteenth century, Adolphe, a young man of twenty four carefree years, plans to obtain favors Ellenore, a beautiful woman of thirty years, much more vulnerable. This yields to his advances and he disclaims all. But already, Adolphe loves less. Yet the idea of ​​the pain is unbearable.

Benoit Jacquot's acclaimed 2002 film of Puccini's opera stars Angela Gheorghiu in the title role, with Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under Antonio Pappano.

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.

A businessman convicted of a white-collar crime becomes a changed person upon his release from prison.

A businessman convicted of a white-collar crime becomes a changed person upon his release from prison.

Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided, and sometimes hindered, by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances.

The director filmed and followed Fabrice Luchini during his performances at the theater. Alone on stage, he speaks, recites, narrates and plays the precious words of great authors. We hear him in texts by Beaudelaire, Jean de La Fontaine, Victor Hugo, Elie Faure, Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Gustave Flaubert.

A bored, sexually frustrated woman's life improves when she begins hypnotherapy and tries feng shui, but her husband's life unravels.

A bored, sexually frustrated woman's life improves when she begins hypnotherapy and tries feng shui, but her husband's life unravels.

In the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century, the fate of Marianne child who survived the deadly attack on a convoy.

Um dia na vida de Valérie, uma jovem parisiense que começa um novo trabalho em um hotel de quatro estrelas no mesmo dia em que revela ao namorado que está grávida.

Um dia na vida de Valérie, uma jovem parisiense que começa um novo trabalho em um hotel de quatro estrelas no mesmo dia em que revela ao namorado que está grávida.

Based on the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the tale recounts how its eponymous heroine avenges the death of her father.

When Duras saw 'La mort du jeune aviateur anglais', she told Benoît Jacquot that the film was about him, not her. "She treated me like a thief. So I offered to make another film, where she could say whatever she wanted about her life as a writer. That’s how we did Écrire. I brought the same film crew. We went to her house at Neauphle-le-Château and we set up in the room she called 'the music room,' where there was a piano and you could listen to records. She settled in and for two days of non-stop filming, she talked."

Marguerite Duras tells the story of the death of a young English aviator in a French village.

A worldly French teen is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life.

A worldly French teen is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life.

Alone on stage, at the dawn of his forties, Fabrice Luchini renders the reflections of the suburban doctor Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Benoît Jacquot, with his nuanced black and white, films the actor impregnated with words full of pain.

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.

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 of Shakespeare's Othello carry on with their own off-stage tragedy.

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 of Shakespeare's Othello carry on with their own off-stage tragedy.

Jean and Julie meet again ten years after childhood. Jean has trouble recognizing the grown up girl. Julie is "promised" to Henri, a neighbor. Julie, scathing and capricious, provokes Henri and Jean.

The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.

KARL, a young immigrant, lives with his uncle in New York. He jealously watches over the education of his nephew. A friend, Mr. PALLUNDER invites KARL to spend a night at his house. Despite strong opposition from his uncle, Karl agrees. Mr. PALLUNDER and Karl cross New York while metal workers' demonstrations take place (black and white archives: aerial views of New York, protesters and police charges, neon lights at night). Mr. PALLUNDER introduces his daughter CLARA who announces the unwanted visit of Mr. GREEN. When the meal is over, CLARA trains KARL and is provocative and provocative against the silly and fierce young man. He wants to return to his uncle's home, but Mr PALLUNDER finds excuses not to accompany him. Mr. GREEN asked him to come and join him at just midnight and say goodbye to CLARA. She begs him to play the piano.

A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.

A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.

In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.

Julien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with another man. He is prepared to go far to make it happen.

Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other. These people, shipwrecked lovers, are dying to love, to escape the abyss of solitude.

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.

A young man who seems lost, Nicolas, has an appointment with her sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy childhood secret: their mother committed suicide when their father had instructed Nicolas to keep it. Since the father chased him and forbade Juliette to see him.

A young man who seems lost, Nicolas, has an appointment with her sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy childhood secret: their mother committed suicide when their father had instructed Nicolas to keep it. Since the father chased him and forbade Juliette to see him.

The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.

A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with it.

A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with it.

A esposa de um desonrado diplomata francês sofre de “lepra da alma,” outro termo para tédio. Por meio de uma mistura de fofocas fora de tela, ficamos sabendo da conduta escandalosa de Anne-Marie na Índia dos anos 30 e seu destino fatal gerado pelo tédio e pela culpa colonial.

A esposa de um desonrado diplomata francês sofre de “lepra da alma,” outro termo para tédio. Por meio de uma mistura de fofocas fora de tela, ficamos sabendo da conduta escandalosa de Anne-Marie na Índia dos anos 30 e seu destino fatal gerado pelo tédio e pela culpa colonial.

In "psychanalyse", a two part documentary, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan answers to questions submitted by his son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller under the direction of Benoit Jacquot. The Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF, the french public TV) broadcast this program. This documentary and its text became famous because this is the only televisual experience practiced by Lacan. A fair amount is made of the fact that Lacan was renowned for his powers of seduction and what effect this had on transference in the clinical setting. According to some of the interviewees, he could be irresistibly seductive, so much so that some thought him "monster".

In "psychanalyse", a two part documentary, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan answers to questions submitted by his son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller under the direction of Benoit Jacquot. The Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF, the french public TV) broadcast this program. This documentary and its text became famous because this is the only televisual experience practiced by Lacan. A fair amount is made of the fact that Lacan was renowned for his powers of seduction and what effect this had on transference in the clinical setting. According to some of the interviewees, he could be irresistibly seductive, so much so that some thought him "monster".