Benoît Jacquot Trailers
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Benoît Jacquot is a French film director and screenwriter who has had a varied career in European cinema. Born in Paris, Jacquot began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films, including Nathalie Granger, India Song, and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre. He turned to writing and directing with the 1975 film The Musician Killer, which starred Anna Karina. He has directed over forty films, the most notable of which to American audiences are La Désenchantée (1990), starring Judith Godrèche, and A Single Girl (1995), starring Virginie Ledoyen. In 2003, he directed Massenet's opera Werther conducted by Antonio Pappano at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His film Farewell, My Queen opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. His 2014 film Three Hearts competed for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. In July 2024, Jacquot was charged with rape, including of a minor, and was barred from directing and having contact with minors.
Most Popular Benoît Jacquot Trailers
Total trailers found: 68
13 March 2025
A couple have a peaceful existence in a small provincial town. He is a teacher and she runs an opticians practical.
08 March 2000
A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.
19 July 2017
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories.
26 January 2010
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.
18 September 2015
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.
27 June 2016
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.
11 December 2018
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.
09 September 2014
A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
31 October 1990
A worldly French teen is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life.
06 December 2006
On her birthday, a young actress learns her father is a Hindu man her mother met in India. She decamps to Varanasi to find him.
06 April 1988
This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection.
08 September 1997
In the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century, the fate of Marianne child who survived the deadly attack on a convoy.
23 August 2000
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.
20 May 1987
Jean and Julie meet again ten years after childhood. Jean has trouble recognizing the grown up girl. Julie is "promised" to Henri, a neighbor.
03 March 1982
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world.
02 June 2021
Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new house, will mark a turning point in her life.
01 January 1993
Marguerite Duras tells the story of the death of a young English aviator in a French village.
11 February 1989
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.
29 November 1995
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
17 November 2012
Jeanne is interned in a psychiatric hospital. She claims to be Joan of Arc.
04 December 2013
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
09 September 2004
A girl from bourgeoisie discovers the pleasures of banditism, following her lover in his lifestyle.
27 August 1986
The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.
21 March 2012
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
07 December 2016
Based on Don DeLillo's novella "The Body Artist," the film swirls around a self-centered filmmaker who, during a screening of one of his films, wanders into an adjoining gallery and becomes mesmerized by a young performance artist.
05 September 2011
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.
01 April 2015
In the late 19th century, a chambermaid from Paris relocates to a remote household in Provence, engages in trysts and finds herself enraptured with a coach driver.
28 August 2013
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.
06 June 2006
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.
18 November 1998
Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally.
04 July 1974
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.
20 March 2019
Year 1763. Forced into exile, the famous libertine Giacomo Casanova leaves Paris and travels to London, where he meets Marianne de Charpillon, a young prostitute to whom he is so attracted that he forgets about the other women.
06 May 1981
A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.
07 March 2018
A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.
20 October 1999
A businessman convicted of a white-collar crime becomes a changed person upon his release from prison.
02 May 1979
Julien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with another man.
01 January 1984
Meeting with Kinshi Tsuruta, the eminent Japanese singer master of biwa. During a lesson with two of his students, devoted to the secular recitation of epics and feudal struggles of the 17th century.
04 June 1975
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.
02 June 1976
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.
13 October 2010
A wanderer named Timothee arrives in a French village in 1865 pretending to be deaf and mute. He uses tricks to hypnotize a beautiful young woman named Josephine and takes advantage of her until he is arrested and tried for his crimes.
12 October 1977
Nicolas has an appointment with his sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy secret of childhood: their mother committed suicide while their father had charged Nicolas to keep her.
05 September 2012
Damien, a Chinese civilization professor, lives with his wife, Iva, a stage director, and their son Noé.
22 October 2023
She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu.
01 September 2001
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.
30 October 2002
Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior.
07 December 1977
The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.
08 April 2009
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.
17 March 1976
A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with it.
04 August 1994
When Duras saw 'La mort du jeune aviateur anglais', she told Benoît Jacquot that the film was about him, not her.
21 March 1979
Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman, terminally ill with leukemia, living in isolation at her wealthy father's villa, and a man working night shifts at a telephone company.
17 December 1997
A bored, sexually frustrated woman's life improves when she begins hypnotherapy and tries feng shui, but her husband's life unravels.
01 January 2010
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.
05 September 2010
A documentary about the life and career of film director Ernst Lubitsch
04 March 2004
The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.
11 April 2010
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.
06 October 1990
Alone on stage, at the dawn of his forties, Fabrice Luchini renders the reflections of the suburban doctor Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
28 December 2022
It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard.
09 June 1993
Based on the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the tale recounts how its eponymous heroine avenges the death of her father.
01 January 1973
The sister of a manager who finds work for the unemployed, instructs her brother's employee to find unemployed people.
18 November 1987
Between February and September 1940, Louis Jouvet worked with Claudia, ascending to the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris, the second scene of Elvire by Don Juan de Molière.
