In addition to his film Diary of a Chambermaid (2015), which is part of the LEFFEST's Official Selection - Out of Competition, the French director will also bring us Joseph Losey's film The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958), which he will discuss with audience.
With a career spanning over thirty years, one of the most prolific filmmakers in French cinema, Benoît Jacquot (1947, France)’s work is an eclectic one. He was Marguerite Duras’s assistant director in the shooting of Nathalie Granger and India Song. During the 70s, he produced several documentaries for television on psychoanalysis (Jacques Locan: la psychoanalyse ½). A lover of literature, he adapted novels, but theater plays and operas as well. He worked based on texts by Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Blanchot, James, Mishima, Marivaux, Corneille, André Gide, Serge Bramly, Puccini, Salinger, Benajmin Constnat, Elisabeth Fanger, Pascal Quignardm Chantal Thomas and more recently Octave Mirbeau. His films competed in the most important film festivals: Cannes, Venice, Berlin. He won the Louis-Dellac Prize (for Best Film) for his feature, Farewell, My Queen (2012). He is about to shoot an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist, starring Mathieu Amalric and Jeanne Balibar.