Benoît Jacquot

It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini ...

Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family’s summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, ...

Year 1763. Forced into exile, the famous libertine Giacomo Casanova leaves Paris and travels to London, where he meets Marianne de Charpillon, a ...

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

In the late 19th century, a chambermaid from Paris relocates to a remote household in Provence, engages in trysts and finds herself enraptured ...

A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

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

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.

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 ...

The plot revolves around Bernard – a schoolfriend of Olivier’s who is preparing for his bac – discovering he is a bastard and taking this ...

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

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.

Gaspard de Besse and his gang of highwaymen escaped the law for years in old monsieur de Morières’s jurisdiction in rural, Ancient Régime ...

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.

Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially repels ...

Benoit Jacquot’s acclaimed 2002 film of Puccini’s opera stars Angela Gheorghiu in the title role, with Roberto Alagna, Ruggero ...

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 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 ...

The director filmed and followed Fabrice Luchini during his performances at the theater. Alone on stage, he speaks, recites, narrates and plays ...

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.

A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.

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

A long interview between Marguerite Duras and Benoît Jacquot on the subject of writing and of solitude, at the country house where Marguerite ...

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

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters’ human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the ...

Between February and September 1940, Louis Jouvet worked with Claudia, ascending to the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris, ...