Personal Info
Birth date
1946-02-01 (79 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Writing
Place of birth
Paris, France
Also known as
-Pascal Bonitzer
Biography
Pascal Bonitzer (born 1 February 1946) is a French screenwriter, film director, actor, and former film critic for Cahiers du cinéma. He has written for 48 films and has appeared in 30 films since 1967. He starred in Raúl Ruiz's 1978 film The Suspended Vocation. He has a daughter, actress Agathe Bonitzer, with filmmaker Sophie Fillières. Source: Article "Pascal Bonitzer" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
Benedetta
6.61
Overview:
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.Last Summer
5.981
Overview:
One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.Gemma Bovery
6.129
Overview:
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.La Belle Noiseuse
7.356
Overview:
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.Simone Barbès or Virtue
5.25
Overview:
Simone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and pass the time. At midnight Simone departs to a lesbian nightclub.The Innocents
7.063
Overview:
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.Auction
6.104
Overview:
André Masson, specialist in modern art, receives a letter according to which a painting by Egon Schiele had been discovered in Mulhouse. He finds that the work has been missing since 1939. This discovery puts his career in danger.The Young Karl Marx
6.851
Overview:
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.Under a False Name
6
Overview:
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.The Story of Marie and Julien
6.386
Overview:
Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn’t know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had fallen in love a year earlier.Son of Gascogne
4.8
Overview:
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.Gang of Four
6.8
Overview:
Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other girls. Soon after, she is attacked on the street outside her home and saved by a mysterious stranger.Golden Eighties
6.5
Overview:
Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's appealing to Lili, the salon's manager, who's trendy and also the salon-owner's moll; to Mado, who's innocent and sweet; and to Pascale, who's intelligent but passive and downcast. Robby's dad tells him to grow up and see beyond the mercurial Lili, so he proposes suddenly to Mado. She's delighted, but the day before the wedding, Lili returns to give Robby another look. In the background, a Yank who was a soldier in France in World War II returns to Paris and tries to recapture the love of his wartime sweetheart, Robby's mom.Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
6.9
Overview:
Jeanne d'Arc has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.Lumumba
6.8
Overview:
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.The Bronte Sisters
5.8
Overview:
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.My Favorite Season
6.153
Overview:
Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.Joan the Maid I: The Battles
6.8
Overview:
Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne d'Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield.Secret Defense
6.2
Overview:
After biologist Sylvie discovers her brother Paul trying to steal a gun from her lab, he explains that he wishes to avenge the death of their father whom he suspects died at the hands of his business partner.Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
6.4
Overview:
After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting her ex-boyfriend Pierre. Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, as he’s meeting with the intriguing Dominique while on his quest for an unpublished manuscript.The Great Alibi
5.1
Overview:
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...Scene of the Crime
5.7
Overview:
In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ensues, and through happenstance, the murderer and the boy's mother form an alliance. All this takes place in four days during which the boy has his first communion, his separated parents face each other amidst grandmother's hopes they'll reunite, the grandfather just wants to go fishing, the school's chaplain complains about the boy's behavior, and the convicts' shared girlfriend comes, gun in hand, to help them escape to Tangier. The mother's surprising decisions complete the story.Up, Down, Fragile
7.1
Overview:
A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening summer in Paris.I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…
6.056
Overview:
Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of “truth” and “history”.The Key
5.396
Overview:
Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de récupérer les cendres de son père. D'abord réticent, il finit par accepter et se retrouve plongé au coeur d'une machination infernale.Looking for Hortense
5.551
Overview:
Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a mountain of routine and disenchantment. To help keep Zorica from getting deported, Iva gets Damien to promise he’ll go to his father, a state department official, for help. But Damien and his father have a distant and cool relationship. And this mission is a risky business which will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge...Changing Times
5.48
Overview:
In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.Nothing About Robert
6.051
Overview:
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.Acting
2025La Fille d'un grand amour as Professeur Femis
2024Agathe, Solange and Me as Self
2024Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited as Self
2017The Clouzot Scandal as Self
2014Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence as Self
2011Chantrapas as producer
2011À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma as Self
2007The Key as Jean
2004Why (Not) Brazil? as Self
2002A Day in the Life of French Cinema as Self
2001Betty Fisher and Other Stories as Mr. Barsky
1999Augustin, King of Kung-Fu as The movie director
1999Les Infortunes de la beauté as Le detective
1999Nothing About Robert as Man in bookstore
1997Genealogies of a Crime as Le directeur d'école
1996Encore as Bergère
1996Three Lives and Only One Death as Unknown
1996Don't Forget You're Going to Die as Psychiatrist
1995Son of Gascogne as Hiblen
1992Chasing Butterflies as Unknown
1992The Sky Above Paris as Man in front of the telephone booth
1989Winter's Child as Un spectateur au théâtre
1989L'Homme aux cheveux bleus as Self
1988Daniel Asleep as Delmas
1985Rouge-gorge as Salesman
1983Stray Bullets as Ernest
1981Cinématon XIV as N°138
1981The Red Shade as The Dutch
1980Snakes and Ladders as Unknown
1980Simone Barbès or Virtue as Un client de la boîte de nuit
1980The One-Eyed Man as Unknown
1978The Suspended Vocation as Jérôme 2
1969Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne as Unknown
Directing
TBANagasaki ... Director
TBAMaigret et le crime de la rue de Bellechasse ... Director
TBAHugo ... Director
2024Auction ... Director
2019The Spellbound ... Director
2016Right Here Right Now ... Director
2012Looking for Hortense ... Director
2008The Great Alibi ... Director
2006Made in Paris ... Director
2003Small Cuts ... Director
1999Nothing About Robert ... Director
1996Encore ... Director
Writing
TBANagasaki ... Screenplay
TBAMaigret et le crime de la rue de Bellechasse ... Screenplay
2024Auction ... Writer, Adaptation, Dialogue
2023Last Summer ... Co-Writer
2021Benedetta ... Script Consultant
2019The Spellbound ... Writer
2017The Young Karl Marx ... Screenplay
2016Right Here Right Now ... Writer
2016The Innocents ... Adaptation, Dialogue
2015Valentin Valentin ... Writer
2014Gemma Bovery ... Screenplay
2014Murder in Pacot ... Screenplay
2012Looking for Hortense ... Screenplay
2009Great life ... Writer
2009Around a Small Mountain ... Scenario Writer
2008The Great Alibi ... Screenplay
2007The Duchess of Langeais ... Writer
2006Made in Paris ... Writer
2004Changing Times ... Writer
2003Hot House ... Writer
2003The Story of Marie and Julien ... Writer
2003Small Cuts ... Writer
2001Va Savoir (Who Knows?) ... Dialogue, Scenario Writer
2001Man of the Crowds ... Writer
2000Lumumba ... Writer
1999Nothing About Robert ... Writer
1998Secret Defense ... Scenario Writer, Writer
1997Genealogies of a Crime ... Writer
1996The Lambs ... Screenplay
1996Three Lives and Only One Death ... Writer
1995Up, Down, Fragile ... Writer
1994Joan the Maid II: The Prisons ... Dialogue, Writer
1994Joan the Maid I: The Battles ... Screenplay
1993My Favorite Season ... Writer
1992La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento ... Dialogue
1991La Belle Noiseuse ... Screenplay, Dialogue
1991Night and Day ... Writer
1991The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg ... Writer
1990Un jeu d'enfant ... Writer
1989Dark Woods ... Writer
1989Gang of Four ... Dialogue, Scenario Writer
1988The Beggars ... Screenplay
1987The Innocents ... Adaptation, Screenplay
1986Golden Eighties ... Writer
1986Scene of the Crime ... Screenplay
1985Wuthering Heights ... Screenplay
1984Love on the Ground ... Writer
1984Cheaters ... Writer
1983Liberty Belle ... Screenplay
1979The Bronte Sisters ... Screenplay
1976I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother… ... Screenplay
Crew
2004Under a False Name ... Thanks