Tonino Benacquista
Nascimento : 1961-09-01, Choisy-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne, France
História
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.
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Author
Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit, so that Vincent can find revenge and leave the past behind. But there is no ideal culprit and no perfect crime.
Screenplay
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.
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.
Screenplay
Carla é uma mulher solitária que sofre com a falta de respeito dos colegas de trabalho. Numa sociedade dominada pelos homens, que tipo de esperança existe para uma deficiente auditiva de 35 anos? A solução é o ex-presidiário Paul, que passa a trabalhar com ela.
Novel
Antoine é um bicão profissional. O maior prazer de sua vida é entrar em baladas para comer e beber de graça. Mas um dia, o tiro sai pela culatra e rapaz entra numa grande fria ao usar em vão o nome de um misterioso homem, que é procurado por um bando de fanáticos. Agora a vida de Antoine está um inferno. Ele é preso e torturado, envolve um amigo na trama, que também corre risco de vida e conhece Violaine, uma misteriosa mulher que quase o leva a loucura. Ela esconde um diabólico segredo. Antoine certamente nunca esquecerá o que passou..
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...
Screenplay
A porn film director convinces his producer to make a romantic film, but the cast is grappling with tensions in their private lives.
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...
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.
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.