Benoît Jacquot

Benoît Jacquot is a young cinemagoer of 17 years old when he starts his career in the film industry as the assistant of director Bernard Borderie on the « Angélique » series. In the early 1970’s, he shoots documlentaries for television (« Jacques Lacan psychanalyse » I & II) as well as adaptations of Kafka or Blanchot. Assistant of Marguerite Duras on « Nathalie Granger » and « India Song », he chooses for his first long feature, « L’ Assassin musicien » in 1975, to adapt a novel by Dostoievski. The spare direction and lifeless diction of the actors seems to make of him the heir of Bresson, impression that gets confirmed in his second feature, « Les Enfants du placard ».