Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

74 • BELVAUX, LUCAS
Filmography
1979 Prisonnier de Mao (documentary; also delegate
producer; shot in 1977)
1985 Rouge Baiser / Rote Küsse / USA: Red Kiss
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, producer;
France / West Germany)
1991 Milena / Geliebte Milena / The Lover (also
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, delegate producer;
shot in 1989; France / West Germany
/ Canada)
1997 Marquise (also co-adapter, producer; France /
Italy / Spain / Switzerland)
2007 Survivre avec les Loups (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer)
BELVAUX, LUCAS (November 14, 1961, Namur,
Belgium–)
Seen as actor in more than forty fi lms and TV movies
(from 1980 L’Enfant dans le Corridor, Jacques Tréfouel, to
2007 Pars vite et reviens tard, Régis Wargnier), including
Yves Boisset’s Allons z’Enfants (1981) and Claude Chabrol’s
Poulet au Vinaigre / UK and USA: Cop au Vin (1985),
he made his directing debut in 1991. His brother was
actor-director Rémy Belvaux (1966–2006).
Filmography
1993 Parfois trop d’Amour (also screenwriter, dialogist;
France / Belgium; shot in 1991)
1997 Pour rire! (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2002 Cavale / UK: Trilogy: One / One / USA: On the
Run (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor; France
/ Belgium)
Un Couple épatant / UK: Trilogy: Two / Two /
USA: An Amazing Couple (also screenwriter,
dialogist, actor; France / Belgium)
Après la Vie / UK: Trilogy: Three / Three / USA:
After the Life (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor;
France / Belgium)
2006 La Raison du plus faible (also screenwriter,
dialogist, actor)
2009 Rapt!
Television Filmography
2001 Mère de Toxico
2004 Nature contre Nature (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2007 Les Prédateurs (two episodes: “Les Rois du
Pétrole,” “Le Procès de l’Affaire Elf”)
BÉNA, MICHEL (February 5, 1950, Algiers, Algeria–July
10, 1991, Paris, France)
After playing a supporting role in a TV movie (1979
Les Trois Mousquetaires ou L’Escrime ne paie pas, Pierre
Neel), he was assistant to directors Claude Lelouch
(1981 Les Uns et les Autres / USA: Bolero; 1982 Les
Misérables; 1984 Viva la Vie!), Alain Jessua (1984 Frankenstein
90), André Téchiné (1985 Rendez-Vous / US
video: André Téchiné’s Rendez-Vous; 1986 Le Lien du
Crime / UK: Le Crime / USA: Scene of the Crime; 1987
Les Innocents), and Olivier Assayas (1986 Désordre).
He directed a short and a feature before dying from
AIDS at age forty-one.
Filmography
1988 Daniel endormi (short; also co-screenwriter)
1991 Le Ciel de Paris (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
BENATTAR, GABRIEL
Filmography
1987 Sécurité publique (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1988 Alice (also screenwriter, dialogist)
BENAYAT, MOHAMMED (1944, Algeria–)
Settled in France with his family at age four, he directed
one short and fi ve features that were poorly
released.
Filmography
1972 Nature morte (short)
1973 Le Masque d’une eclaircie
1975 Barricades sauvages (unreleased)
1980 Les Nouveaux Romantiques (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1985 L’Enfant des Etoiles (unreleased)
Arizona Stallion
BENAYOUN, ROBERT (December 12, 1926,
Port-Lyautey, now Kenitra, Morocco–October 20,
1996, Paris, France)
A member of a surrealist group (1948) and a fi lm
critic, he co-founded L’Âge du Cinéma with Ado Kyrou
in 1950 and was a regular collaborator to the magazines
Positif and Le Point. He authored many books,
including 1957 Anthologie du Nonsense (Jean-Jacques
Pauvert), 1961 Le Dessin animé après Walt Disney
(Jean-Jacques Pauvert), 1964 Erotique du Surréalisme
(Jean-Jacques Pauvert), 1966 John Huston (Seghers),
1972 Bonjour Monsieur Lewis (Eric Losfeld), 1982 Le
Regard de Buster Keaton (Herscher), and 1988 Le Mys-