Benoît Jacquot

Directing

Benoît Jacquot

Born

1947-02-05 (79)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

58 titles

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 fi…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

2010s · 7 titles

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets poster
6.7

In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

2017

Chinese Puzzle poster
6.6

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.

Chinese Puzzle

2013

Looking for Hortense poster
5.6

Damien, a Chinese civilization professor, lives with his wife, Iva, a stage director, and their son Noé. The couple's relationship has drifted into routine that has drained it of love. Damien finds himself trapped one day by Iva, who orders him to ask his father, a senior member of the French Council of State, for help in preventing Zorica, a woman Iva knows, from being deported. But Damien and his father don't get on and are barely ever in touch with each other. This dangerous mission throws Damien into a spiral that will turn his life upside down.

Looking for Hortense

2012

Joan poster
5.0

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

Joan

2012

Lubitsch, le patron poster
NR

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

Lubitsch, le patron

2010

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là poster
7.2

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.

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

2010

Rendez-vous chez Lacan poster
5.6

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.

Rendez-vous chez Lacan

2011

1970s · 5 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

3 Hearts poster
5.5

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

3 Hearts

2014

3 Hearts poster
5.5

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

3 Hearts

2014

Farewell, My Queen poster
6.0

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

Farewell, My Queen

2012

Farewell, My Queen poster
6.0

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

Farewell, My Queen

2012

Diary of a Chambermaid poster
5.2

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.

Diary of a Chambermaid

2015

Diary of a Chambermaid poster
5.2

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.

Diary of a Chambermaid

2015

A Single Girl poster
5.9

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

A Single Girl

1995

A Single Girl poster
5.9

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

A Single Girl

1995

Casanova, Last Love poster
4.8

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.

Casanova, Last Love

2019

Casanova, Last Love poster
4.8

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.

Casanova, Last Love

2019

Venice 70: Future Reloaded poster
5.0

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.

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013

Eva poster
4.4

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

Eva

2018

Eva poster
4.4

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

Eva

2018

Sade poster
5.6

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.

Sade

2000

Belle poster
5.8

A couple have a peaceful existence in a small provincial town. He is a teacher and she runs an opticians practical. Their life is turned upside when Belle, a friend’s daughter who is lodging with them, is found dead in her room. The husband becomes the prime suspect as the only one at home at the time.

Belle

2025

Belle poster
5.8

A couple have a peaceful existence in a small provincial town. He is a teacher and she runs an opticians practical. Their life is turned upside when Belle, a friend’s daughter who is lodging with them, is found dead in her room. The husband becomes the prime suspect as the only one at home at the time.

Belle

2025

The School of Flesh poster
5.3

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 School of Flesh

1998

Suzanna Andler poster
4.8

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. Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman in the 1960s. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover.

Suzanna Andler

2021

Suzanna Andler poster
4.8

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. Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman in the 1960s. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover.

Suzanna Andler

2021

Seventh Heaven poster
5.0

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

Seventh Heaven

1997

Seventh Heaven poster
5.0

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

Seventh Heaven

1997

À tout de suite poster
5.4

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

À tout de suite

2004

À tout de suite poster
5.4

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

À tout de suite

2004

The Disenchanted poster
5.3

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

The Disenchanted

1990

The Disenchanted poster
5.3

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

The Disenchanted

1990

Adolphe poster
5.5

Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially repels her young suitor’s unwanted advances, Ellénore soon yields to his charms and the two embark on a passionate love affair.

Adolphe

2002

La Vie de Marianne poster
7.9

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

La Vie de Marianne

1997

La Vie de Marianne poster
7.9

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

La Vie de Marianne

1997

By Heart poster
5.9

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.

By Heart

2022

By Heart poster
5.9

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.

By Heart

2022

Villa Amalia poster
5.7

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.

Villa Amalia

2009

Villa Amalia poster
5.7

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.

Villa Amalia

2009

Return to the Beloved poster
6.3

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.

Return to the Beloved

1979

Deep in the Woods poster
5.3

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.

Deep in the Woods

2010

Deep in the Woods poster
5.3

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.

Deep in the Woods

2010

Gaspard le bandit poster
3.3

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.

Gaspard le bandit

2006

Gentleman Rissient poster
NR

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

Gentleman Rissient

2016

The Wings of the Dove poster
5.2

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

The Wings of the Dove

1981

The Wings of the Dove poster
5.2

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

The Wings of the Dove

1981

Keep It Quiet poster
5.5

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

Keep It Quiet

1999