Pascal Bonitzer
Date of birth: 1946-02-01
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Writing
Also known as:
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.
Movie Credits
Son of Gascogne
1995-02-18
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous di
The Suspended Vocation
1978-07-27
The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor i
The Key
2007-12-19
Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d
Winter's Child
1989-06-14
Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sab
Don't Forget You're Going to Die
1996-01-03
Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include h
Betty Fisher and Other Stories
2001-09-01
When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother
Why (Not) Brazil?
2004-09-15
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best se
The Red Shade
1981-10-28
The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communi
Chantrapas
2011-04-21
A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
2014-08-01
The Sky Above Paris
1992-01-15
Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else.
Chasing Butterflies
1992-11-04
Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inh
Daniel Asleep
1988-06-25
The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself.
Rouge-gorge
1985-02-06
After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with
Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited
2024-04-02
New interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitze
Encore
1996-09-25
The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of thi
The Clouzot Scandal
2017-10-17
Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977),
Nothing About Robert
1999-02-24
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him
Snakes and Ladders
1980-09-17
A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expandin
The One-Eyed Man
1980-01-01
With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to lif
Cinématon XIV
1981-11-08
Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Genealogies of a Crime
1997-05-04
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to st
À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma
2011-01-01
Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, former editors at Cahiers du Cinema, interview their former col
Stray Bullets
1983-04-13
Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne
1969-01-01
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002-05-20
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same
Simone Barbès or Virtue
1980-02-27
Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observ
Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
1999-08-25
The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young ac
La Fille d'un grand amour
2025-01-08
Ana and Yves loved each other passionately, then parted ways. Years later, their daughter Cécile mad
Agathe, Solange and Me
2024-04-29
Agathe embarks on a journey to uncover the life of her grandmother, Solange, an artist and writer wh
Les Infortunes de la beauté
1999-08-11
This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and
L'Homme aux cheveux bleus
1989-01-01
From the first meeting with the critic Louis Marcorelles to his last interview in Cahiers du cinéma,
Three Lives and Only One Death
1996-05-15
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fai
Bâtons d'encens pour Mizoguchi
2004-09-07
Conversation avec Pascal Bonitzer
2025-09-08
In a handful of deliberately and gently dark films, screenwriter and director Pascal Bonitzer has bu