Movies: Benoît Jacquot

Based on the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the tale recounts how its eponymous heroine avenges the death of her father....

Meeting with Kinshi Tsuruta, the eminent Japanese singer master of biwa. During a lesson with two of his students, devoted to the secular recitation of epics and feudal struggles of the 17th century. The musician looks back on the transformations she...

Marguerite Duras tells the story of the death of a young English aviator in a French village....

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Alone on stage, at the dawn of his forties, Fabrice Luchini renders the reflections of the suburban doctor Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Benoît Jacquot, with his nuanced black and white, films the actor impregnated with words full of pain....

Following her performances in recent seasons in Verdi’s La travita on the world’s major opera stages – the Metropolitan, New York, La Scala, Milan, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Paris Opera – Diana Damrau has become the primary interpreter of V...