Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

118 • BONELLO, BERTRAND
1987 Terre étrangère / Das weite Land (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Austria /
West Germany / Italy)
2004 Ne fais pas ça (also co-screenwriter; France /
Germany)
Television Filmography
1990 Le Chemin solitaire (also stage director; Canada
/ France)
1999 Figaro lässt sich scheiden (Germany)
2001 Dreimal Leben (Germany)
BONELLO, BERTRAND (September 11, 1968,
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France–)
Trained as a classical musician (piano, orchestra
conduction, and percussion), he composed scores
for shorts and commercials before directing his fi rst
movie.
Filmography
1993 Juliette + 2 (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1995 Le Bus d’Alice (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1996 Qui je suis (short; also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1997 The Adventures of James and David Episode 1
(short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1998 Quelque Chose d’Organique (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2001 Le Pornographe / The Pornographer (also screenwriter,
dialogist; France / Canada)
2002 The Adventures of James and David (short; also
screenwriter, dialogist)
2003 Tirésia (also screenwriter, dialogist; France /
Canada)
2005 Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (short; also screenwriter)
2006 My New Picture (short; also screenwriter)
2008 De la Guerre (also screenwriter, dialogist)
BONITZER, PASCAL (February 1, 1946, Paris,
France–)
Having graduated with a bachelor’s degree and a
master of philosophy, he became a fi lm critic in 1969,
writing in Les Cahiers du Cinéma. He made his fi lm debut
as an actor in a short (1967 Vampirisme, Bernard
Chaouat, Patrice Duvic) and played in almost thirty
movies (from 1978 La Vocation suspendue, Raoul Ruiz,
to 2007 La Clef, Guillaume Nicloux). Known mostly as
a screenwriter (about fi fty fi lms from 1976 Moi, Pierre
Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma Sœur et mon Frère . . .,
René Allio, to 2008 36 Vues du Pic Saint-Loup, Jacques
Rivette), he directed half a dozen features in ten
years. He also is a teacher at the Fémis.
Filmography
1989 Les Sirènes (short; also screenwriter; dialogist)
1996 Encore (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1999 Rien sur Robert (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2003 Petites Coupures (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
France / UK)
2006 Je pense à vous (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
2008 Le Grand Alibi (also screenwriter, adapter, codialogist)
BONNARDOT, CLAUDE-JEAN (December 26,
1923, Paris, France–January 20, 1981, Paris, France)
A former extra and then an actor (1947 Le Bataillon
du Ciel / USA: They Are No Angels, two parts, “Ce
ne sont pas des Anges,” “Terre de France,” shot in
1945–1946; 1968 Drôle de Jeu, Pierre Kast), he was
dubbing translator and director (he notably did the
French version of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho). His fi rst
feature fi lm, a documentary on the Korean War, was
censored for six years.
Filmography
1954 Les Bras de la Seine (short)
1956 Impasse (short)
1957 Paris-Férié (short)
1963 Ballade pour un Voyou / USA: Ballad for a Hoodlum
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1964 Moranbong, Aventure coréenne (documentary;
also actor; shot in 1958)
1965 Les Comédiens dans la Ville neuve (short; also
screenwriter)
Son ou Gal (documentary; short)
Television Filmography
1965 Infarctus
1966 Le Chevalier des Touches
1967 L’Invention de Morel (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
1969 Jean-Roch Coignet (7 60')
1970 Les Aventures de Zadig
1973 Au Bout du Rouleau
Les Cinq dernières Minutes (episode “Un Gros
Pépin dans le Chasselas”)
1974 Le Vagabond (28 13'; also co-screenwriter)