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	Film Society of Lincoln Center
		Jacquot haunted the Cinemathèque as a teenager and soaked up the atmosphere around him “like the boy in Lang’s Moonfleet,” and he would later quit college to work in the industry.
		Jacquot once explained to me that with the constantly moving camera and unified duration of La Fille seule, he was trying to create a film that took place in “mental time.” This seems a perfect way of describing his entire body of work, which, considered altogether, is one of the most moving in modern cinema.
		In a way, each of Jacquot’s films take place in this mental time, dedicated as they are to the realization of a lovely ambition: to describe, as carefully and as gracefully as possible, the relationship between the inner world and the outer world.
	www.filmlinc.com /wrt/onsale/jacquot.html (371 words)

	Seventh Heaven
		Jacquot's tale of a shift in the balance of sexual power between married Parisians who submit to the scrutiny of dubious psychiatrists has a gentle touch but is either too obvious or too obscure for my own taste.
		Jacquot is best known in the U.S. for 1995's La Fille Seule (A Single Girl), an intimate pas de deux between his camera and belle-de-jour Virginie Ledoyen, playing a young Frenchwoman working at a Paris hotel and deciding whether to let her boyfriend stick around in her life.
		And finally, Jacquot decided to shoot this one in scope, and the demands of widescreen photography seem to have limited his ability to move in close on her face.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/seventhh.html (558 words)

	À tout de suite (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Jacquot, whose earlier films have been glossy and studded with stars like Isabelle Huppert and Danielle Auteuil, stripped to basic DV for this character-centered Seventies "fugue" that he has said does just what he wanted to do, 24 frames per second.
		Jacquot worked with great freedom, but he needed to edit more closely and rethink his second half.
		Jacquot's involvement with his young muse and the chemistry between her and her Arab lover are reinforced by spare scenes and dialogue and the simple fl and white images -- even though lacking the beauty and tonal range of real fl and white film stock -- create a memorable mood.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0407342 (931 words)

	French culture \| cinema: Sade, by Benoit Jacquot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Benoît Jacquot's film Sade (1999) is a provocative historical drama set during the French Revolution, starring Daniel Auteuil as the notorious Marquis de Sade.
		Jacquot contrasts Sade's immorality with the almost casual carnage of the Terror and sees Sade as not a symptom of his times but as a visionary of a revolution still to come.
		Avoiding the pitfalls of the biographical film that skims over many decades, Jacquot instead concentrates on a relatively small period of Sade's life: his imprisonment by the Jacobins during the French Revolution and his near-brush with the fickle guillotine.
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/jacquot/sade.html (672 words)

	Bon Mots with Benoit Jacquot, Director of "Seventh Heaven"
		Always balancing intellect with the right level of emotion, Jacquot's most recent U.S. exposure comes in "Seventh Heaven," opening this Friday from Zeitgeist, the story of Mathilde (Sandrine Kiberlain) a wife who suffers from fragility and fainting spells and her husband Nico (Vincent Lindon) who feels inadequate because he can't please her.
		Jacquot: Because the girl is fading in the film, so my film is fading too.
		Jacquot: Yes, it was the first thing I though of when making the story.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Jacquot_Benoit_980728.html (1082 words)

	CityBeat: Pleased to Meet You (1999-04-15)
		In Jacquot's The School of Flesh the customer is a woman, and the hooker a young man. Isabelle Huppert plays Dominique, a fashion executive who falls for her street-tough gigolo (musician Vincent Martinez).
		The women of Jacquot's films are united by their focus, intelligence and independence.
		Jacquot is not likely to acquire a solid audience in America.
	www.citybeat.com /1999-04-15/film2.shtml (1582 words)

	Film Fest Journal: Benoît Jacquot: Documentary Films, Part 1
		In essence, rather than using the voice to interpret the music, the role of the contra-tenor was to articulate the music exactly - without embellishment, without the introduction of personality - a faithful "reproduction" of the music that sublimates the individuality of the artist - the performance - for the creation of the art itself.
		Juxtaposed against des Fôrets' admission that he had earlier burned manuscripts of works that he had found personally unsatisfying, what emerges is a portrait of an artist who, despite personal success, continues to struggle with self-doubt and the consciousness of imperfection.
		In establishing the notion of transparent, "direct" performance, Elvire-Jouvet 40 thematically converges with Jacquot's earlier documentaries Merce Cunningham and Co. and Alfred Deller: Portrait of a Voice in presenting the philosophical ideal of the role of the artist, not as the center of creation, but as the integral medium of pure aesthetic transmission.
	filmref.com /journal/archives/2006/07/benoit_jacquot_documentary_fil.html (379 words)

	INTERVIEW: "Pushing Things To Their Limits"; Benoit Jacquot Takes On the Marquis de Sade
		Jacquot even employed two porn stars to play the couple she walks in on having sex.
		Jacquot's scope has since broadened into the period genre with two recent films: "Sade" (starring Daniel Auteuil), which Empire Pictures opened in New York on Friday, and a filmed version of the popular opera "Tosca" (due this summer from Avatar Films).
		Jacquot: Yes, because he's an important writer whom I read when I was very young and because all that involves pushing things to their limit interests me. Sade explored the line between the human and the inhuman in a unique fashion, and that's always fascinated me.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Jacquot_Benoit_020501.html (1210 words)

	Film Fest Journal: Benoît Jacquot: Documentary Films, Part 2
		The second series of documentaries presented at the Benoît Jacquot retrospective - Nombres et neurons, Jacques Lacan's Psychoanalysis Part One, La Mort du jeune aviateur anglais, and Ecrire - may be loosely categorized as films that examine the thought process indigenously from within the idiosyncratic perspective of the creative mind.
		The friendship between Jacquot and novelist and filmmaker Marguerite Duras results in a sublime and palpably intimate organic conversation on the nature of evocation, history, memory, transference, and artistic creation in La Mort du jeune aviateur anglais.
		The gesture would move Duras profoundly, a story that, as she subsequently muses, perhaps resonates with the trauma of her own brother's death at a young age, or perhaps with the romantic idea of lost youth.
	filmref.com /journal/archives/2006/07/benoit_jacquot_documentary_fil_1.html (541 words)

	village voice > film > For The Love of Movies: The Cinema of Benoît Jacquot by Michael Atkinson
		At best, Jacquot is a wistful interrogator of the viewing experience; at worst, his high-culture tastes glibly give way to the worship of nymphs.
		In fact, Jacquot's U.S. releases could pigeonhole him as a familiar kind of Gallic libertine, distracted by scantily dressed young womanhood and sexual desire.
		Jacquot has largely neglected such rigors, before and since, while remaining bewitched by the likes of Judith Godréche (1990's The Disenchanted), Sandrine Kiberlain (1997's Seventh Heaven), and Ledoyen (1997's Marianne).
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0625,atkinson,73600,20.html (498 words)

	French Culture \| Cinema \| Benoit Jacquot: Tosca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		"Benoît Jacquot's film of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca manages to be expansive and intimate at once, opening its "stage" into the landscape when appropriate (using woozy handheld video, a powerful contrast to the sharp studio shots) and zooming in on the bosom and furrowed brow of diva Angela Gheorgiu.
		Jacquot conceived of something daring: he wanted the voices to be live.
		Jacquot, based on the libretto of Puccini's opera; produced by Daniel Toscan Du Plantier; director of photography, Romain Winding; edited by Luc Barnier; music by Giacomo Puccini, performed by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Antonio Pappano; released by Avatar Films in Us June 2002.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/cinema/releases/jacquot/tosca.html (945 words)

	2006 Philadelphia Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Renowned director Benoît Jacquot delivers a film worthy of comparisons to the French New Wave with this portrait of a woman caught in a world of crime in the 1970s.
		Director Benoît Jacquot masterfully charts the story of a rebellious young woman (Isild Le Besco) whose life spins into unpredictable directions after she falls in love.
		Jacquot and Le Besco have created a vivid character study of a woman alienated by the mundane, challenged by a doomed love and in constant search for her self.
	www.phillyfests.com /pff/templates/film_details.cfm?id=3905 (307 words)

	À Tout de Suite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Director Benoit Jacquot has more than two dozen movies to his credit, but few have been distributed in the United States.
		Her sultry face, puffy eyes, and sensuous lips project here a sense of vulnerability that belie Lili's willfulness, while, at the same time, explaining why she is so attractive to others.
		Jacquot keeps the narrative moving, adding bits of business with a housemaid here, a bullfight there, even a telling exchange in a scene with her absentee mother, all intended to put Lili's experience into a context.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies11/AToutdeSuite.htm (519 words)

	Tosca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		What makes his film so compellingly audacious is that from the very start he juxtaposes fl-and-white scenes of the conductor, Antonio Pappano, and the actor/singers in the recording studio with the staged opera in order to reveal the energy and work that goes into realizing a mighty work of lyrical art and ensemble acting.
		Jacquot demonstrates here how film can strengthen the opera's drama—the silence of the protagonists, their tortured faces, the intensity of their love, their hate, and their fear.
		Jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs, ideally capturing its drama and lyricism.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies3/Tosca.htm (483 words)

	Zeitgeist Films \| Benoît Jacquot's Seventh Heaven
		Born in Paris in 1947, Jacquot worked from 1965 to 1974 as an assistant director for a number of important and influential filmmakers including Marguerite Duras and Jacques Rivette (he was an assistant on CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING).
		Jacquot is known and respected in Paris but appears to be a shadowy presence....
		It was A SINGLE GIRL, Jacquot’s eighth feature, shot mostly in real time and starring the dazzling newcomer Virginie Ledoyen, which brought Jacquot attention and acclaim abroad.
	www.zeitgeistfilms.com /film.php?directoryname=seventhheaven&mode=filmmaker (350 words)

	A girl's singular problem
		Director Benoit Jacquot and his co-writer Jerome Beaujour have decided to concentrate on the way one young woman decides to proceed with her life.
		But sometimes it feels as if Jacquot is more interested in reproducing real-life details than he is in making a movie that moves from one place to the next.
		Jacquot looks at the class war, the gender gap, sexual harassment and other contemporary issues, all of it interesting.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/06/06/WEEKEND6654.dtl (398 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Jacquot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Benoit Jacquot's ode to the French New Wave is infused with his love of American crime classics "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Badlands" and, sadly, his love for...
		Deneuve is also the eponymous heroine of Benoit Jacquot's "Princess Marie." As Marie Bonaparte, the grandniece of Napoleon and princess of Greece and Denmark...
		Black-and-white French crime drama from Benoit Jacquot, in which a bourgeois art student falls for a guy who turns out to be a crook, and the two go on the lam...
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Jacquot.htm (8395 words)

	'For the Love of Movies: The Cinema of Benoît Jacquot' - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Jacquot's work that begins today at the Walter Reade Theater and also includes "Jacques Lacan's Psychoanalysis Part One" (1974), a short that finds the controversial psychoanalyst issuing characteristically fascinating and baffling aperçus.
		Jacquot's abiding interest in the geography of human desire is similarly evident in one of his most acclaimed fiction efforts, "A Single Girl" (1995), a closely observed portrait of a young woman (a radiant Ms.
		Jacquot after its release, "when I make a film about a young woman, it's because I'm in love with her, and that's evident in the final product." Evident in all those faces too.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/06/23/movies/23bmovi.html?ex=1308715200&en=743f2177f43fe191&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (508 words)

	The School of Flesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But in comparison with other films in Jacquot's repertoire, which though cold are also moving, Flesh tends to be just cold.
		As such, she was well traveled, perfectly at home in English, and articulate about distinguishing the methods and talents of her various directors -- Pialat, Chabrol, etc. -- in ways rare for actors.
		In Jacquot's adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel, she plays a financially secure Parisian who works for a Japanese clothes designer and falls deeply in love with a lower-class, probably bisexual gigolo.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/04/15/THE_SCHOOL_OF_FLESH.html (1388 words)

	dOc DVD Review: A Single Girl (1996)
		She meets with her unemployed boyfriend Remi (Benoit Magimel) before going to work to inform him that she is pregnant, though she's not sure what she wants his reaction to be.
		Director and co-screenwriter Benoit Jacquot invests a lot of footage in these insignificant events because they're more important in the aggregate than they seem at first glance.
		Jacquot's point seems to be that life never really stops for the "big events," but weaves itself around them—we're influenced consciously and subconsciously by everything that happens to us.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=213 (932 words)

	Gerald Peary - interviews - Benoit Jacquot
		Benoit Jacquot, born in 1947, an assistant director for Marguerite Duras and others before turning filmmaker, has quietly built a body of subtle, serious feature films in France which, added up, constitute an unarguably important career.
		As these pieces fit together, Jacquot creates a tapestry or a puzzle that, when one stands back, depicts a vision of the modern world that may appear fragmented but which certainly is comprehensive.
		Our career interview with Benoit Jacquot, the first in America, extended over two years, at the 1997 and 1998 Toronto Fests.
	www.geraldpeary.com /interviews/jkl/jacquot.html (4724 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review SADE movie by Benoit Jacquot with Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Gregoir Colin, Idlid Le ...
		A strange sense of distance permeates Benoit Jacquot's new "Sade," a clever and often lovely film that somehow fails to make any visceral connection with its subject.
		Set in 1794, at the peak of Robespierre's self-righteous purge of France, the film takes place mostly at Picpus, a prison for those rich enough to pay for a certain degree of comfort and gentility in their exile.
		Jacquot has written that he likes to think of "Sade" as "a cross between a rose and a whip", but despite all the violence it encompasses, this film never lashes out to sting its audience.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2002/sade.php3 (679 words)

	Review: Seventh Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		At first glance, it seems that Jacquot may be going in one of two directions: exploring the power and potential for abuse inherent in hypnotism, or examining the impact of repressed memories.
		Jacquot is a meticulous director who relies heavily upon the performances of his actors.
		During one sequence in the hypnotist's office, when Mathilde is relating a childhood memory, Jacquot keeps the camera on her face, rather than yielding to the temptation of inserting a flashback.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/seventh.html (719 words)

	village voice > film > by J. Hoberman
		The School of Flesh, Jacquot's first film to have an Uptown opening, is more blatantly upscale— an elegant account of mad love and cool vengeance, adapted as a vehicle for Isabelle Huppert by one of the busiest French screenwriters, Jacques Fieschi, from a relatively obscure novel by Yukio Mishima.
		Still, if there's less street energy here than in previous Jacquot films, the stasis is redeemed by the glimpses Huppert permits the director into the depths of her turbulent psyche.
		Less characterized by sangfroid than Benoit Jacquot in his cut-and-paste erotic obsessions, the Super-8 film artist known as Luther Price makes disturbing, primal film objects— many of which are showing this week as part of MOMA's ongoing narrow-gauge program, as well as at Thread Waxing Space, where the Boston-based artist is having a gallery show.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/9908/hoberman.php (1023 words)

	The light at the end of the Chunnel - Minnesota Daily
		Jacquot, a personal favorite of Jamie Hook, Minnesota Film Arts executive director, will be appearing in person tonight at the Riverview Theater to present and discuss his most recent film, "A Tout de Suite."
		It is the premiere event in a special Jacquot series at this year's festival, which features a total of seven Jacquot titles, including "Tosca," "A Single Girl," "The Disenchanted," "Sade," "Seventh Heaven" (9:45 p.m.
		Perhaps this is why Jacquot has been absent from U.S. movie screens and even from the minds of devoted film students and cineastes at the University.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2005/04/07/64015 (583 words)

	Frenchculture.org \| Cinema \| Benoit Jacquot: Seventh Heaven (1997) (Zetgeist DVD 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Once Mathilde's husbandÐwho is used to dealing with illness in a clinically rational and logical mannerÐrealizes that she has achieved this metamorphosis, he becomes jealous and begins to experience an identity crisis of his own.
		In SEVENTH HEAVEN, Jacquot shows a miraculous understanding of marital power dynamicsÐthe funny, poignant, romantic, strange dance of two lovers growing in different directions, each at a different pace, in order to rediscover each other.
		Benoit Jacquot's is one of France's premiere directors, having helmed an impressive array of acclaimed films featuring career-making performances from France's most brilliant actresses.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/cinema/releases/jacquot/seventhheaven.html (280 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The second element of the desire behind the film, Jacquot elaborates, was the timely intervention of the producer Fabienne Vonier.
		Jacquot admits that he encountered difficulties in adapting the specifics of the novel's Japanese setting and themes; "Above all, the novel's power was in its being an extraordinary document on the female landscape of Japan in the immediate post-war period.
		As a film about a sexual relationship in which, as Jacquot puts it, "Dominique is masculinised by her position and Quentin femminised by his," the director insist that his approach should be about modesty.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes98/selofus29.htm (496 words)

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