Benoît Jacquot

For over thirty years, Benoit Jacquot has been the author of an unclassifiable work, sometimes experimental and minimalist, sometimes classical or academic, but always exciting. The filmmaker has been obsessed with the feeling of love and psychoanalysis, but also with literature, since he already has a dozen adaptations (novels, plays and operas) to his credit. In 1975, he signed his first feature film, L’assassin musicien, based on a novel by Dostoyevsky. La Désenchantée (1990), a masterpiece with radiant Judith Godrèch, was the beginning of his international recognition. 3 Hearts, bringing together Charlotte Gainsbourg, Benoit Poolevorde, Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, is his fourth feature film to be selected in the official selection at Venice. More recently, Diary of a Chambermaid, with Léa Seydoux in the lead role, was selected in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. The film was also presented by Benôit Jacquot himself at LEFFEST’15.