Bonitzer, Pascal

Lumumba ( Visual )
13 editions published between 2000 and 2008 in French and English and held by 549 libraries worldwide
Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served for less than a year as the first elected prime minister, until he was brutally assassinated.

Temps qui changent Changing times ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2006 in French and held by 451 libraries worldwide
Antoine still has feelings for his first love Cécile after 30 years and arranges to be reunited with her in Morocco in the hopes of rekindling their love.

La belle noiseuse The beautiful troublemaker ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2002 and 2004 in French and held by 242 libraries worldwide
An artist near the end of his career finds new inspiration in a young model. A famous and well-respected artist who lives in a comfortable estate in the French countryside, at the age of 60, considers his career as a painter to be over. He no longer feels inspired to create, and his last attempt at a major work, a nude study of his wife Liza, has sat unfinished for ten years. His protégé suggests a more inspiring subject, who exchanges ideas and opinions, as he methodically attempts to create a final masterpiece.

Close up and personal by Catherine Deneuve ( Book )
8 editions published between 2004 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 183 libraries worldwide
"Six carnets de tournage, les seuls qu'elle ait tenus en quarante ans de carrière. On y découvre une femme au travail, toujours passionnée et assez solitaire. Deux cahiers de photos inédites illustrent l'ouvrage. Le premier, intime, en noir et blanc est composé de photos tirées de l'album de famille de Catherine Deneuve ; le second, en couleurs, reproduit des photos de tournage prise par l'actrice.

Jeanne la Pucelle ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in French and English and held by 176 libraries worldwide
Film tells the story of Joan of Arc. Battles describes her early life, hearing the voices, and the victory over the English. Prisons describes her capture, imprisonment, trial, and execution.

Eric Rohmer by Pascal Bonitzer ( Book )
13 editions published between 1991 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 162 libraries worldwide
Un regard personnel argumenté selon un découpage thématique sur l'oeuvre du cinéaste, une tentative d'analyse de la morale ambigue͏̈ qui anime ses grandes séries : contes moraux, comédies et proverbes, contes des quatre saisons...

Secret défense ( Visual )
10 editions published between 1999 and 2009 in French and held by 97 libraries worldwide
A young scientist discovers, from her brother, that their father's death wasn't an accident, but that he was killed by his business partner and friend.

Va savoir ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2002 in French and held by 88 libraries worldwide
Follows the lives of three men and three woman as they become tangled in each other's lives during the brief run of a play in Paris.

Trois vies et une seule mort ( Visual )
2 editions published in 1998 in French and held by 84 libraries worldwide
Banker/armsdealer Luc Allamand is in a surrealistic shell game during which the primary players remain a mystery to each other. Fitting together the pieces to this clever puzzle, Luc's tangled life takes us on a dynamic journey through the lives of his adversaries. A fairy tale mixes comedy and suspense in this fictional examination of man-kind's capacity to host a multitude of identities.

L'hypothèse du tableau volé ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2006 in French and held by 83 libraries worldwide
L'hypothèse du tableau volé: A bumbling art collector attempts to reconstruct the content of a painting missing from a series of seven painted 100 years earlier by an eccentric artist. To help him in his task, a group of actors pose as the figures in the paintings to create a series of human tableaux. The collector makes far-fetched thematic connections between the tableaux as a way to figure out what the missing artwork might look like while alluding to the scandals, mysteries, and conspiracies surrounding the paintings.