Nationality French Casting directed Humanite Books Humanity, Life of Jesus | Role Film director Name Bruno Dumont | |
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Awards European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year, Sutherland Trophy Nominations Cesar Award for Best First Feature Film Movies Camille Claudel 1915, Outside Satan, Li'l Quinquin, Hadewijch, Humanite Similar People Juliette Binoche, David Dewaele, Rachid Bouchareb, Severine Caneele, Jean‑Luc Vincent | ||
On the Verge of Heaven: An Interview with Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont ([dymɔ̃]; born 14 March 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter. To date, he has directed ten feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité (1999) and Flandres (2006). Dumont's Hadewijch won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival.
Contents
- On the Verge of Heaven An Interview with Bruno Dumont
- The Faces of Bruno Dumont
- Life and career
- Feature films
- Short films
- Interviews and articles
- References
The Faces of Bruno Dumont
Life and career
Dumont has a background of Greek and German (Western) philosophy, and of corporate video. His films often show the ugliness of extreme violence and provocative sexual behavior, and are usually classified as art films. Dumont has himself likened his films to visual arts, and he typically uses long takes, close-ups of people's bodies, and story lines involving extreme emotions. Dumont does not write traditional scripts for his films. Instead, he writes complete novels which are then the basis for his filmmaking.
He says that some of his favorite filmmakers are Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, and Abbas Kiarostami. He is frequently considered an artistic heir to Robert Bresson.
His—extremely divisive—work has been connected to a recent French cinéma du corps/cinema of the body, encompassing contemporary films by Claire Denis, Marina de Van, Gaspar Noé, Diane Bertrand, and François Ozon, among others. According to Tim Palmer, this trajectory includes a focus on states of corporeality in and of themselves, independent of narrative exposition or character psychology. In a more pejorative vein, James Quandt has also talked of some of this group of filmmakers, as the so-called New French Extremity.
His 2011 film Hors Satan premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. His 2013 film Camille Claudel 1915 premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Dumont is an atheist.
Feature films
Short films
Interviews and articles
