Director: Benoît Jacquot
Length: 1998, 35 MM, Colour, 110 mins
Screenplay: Jacques Fieschi, Yukio Mishima
Cinematography: Caroline Champetier
Editor: Luc Barnier
Costume: Corinne Jorry
Makeup: Françoise Andrejka, Jean-Marc Guérin
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Martinez, Vincent Lindon, Marthe Keller, François Berléand
Director's Biography: Benoît Jacquot (born Feb. 5th, 1947 in Paris) started out in the early seventies as assistant director on Marguerite Duras' Nathalie Granger (1972) and India Song (1975). Over the following thirty years, Benoît Jacquot has built up an impressive oeuvre of psychological dramas, novel and stage play adaptations and television documentaries.
He made his fiction feature début with an adaptation from Dostoyevsky, L'Assassin Musicien (1976). From the mid-nineties on, Benoît Jacquot directed several films in which women face existential questions, with principal performances by, among others, Isabelle Huppert (L'École de la chair, 1998, La Fausse Suivante, 1999), Virginie Ledoyen (La Fille Seule, 1995), Isabelle Adjani (Adolphe, 2002) and Catherine Deneuve (Princesse Marie, 2003). In his most recent feature, L’Intouchable (The Untouchable, 2006), actress Isild le Besco returns in a leading role after starring in À tout de suite (2004) and with Daniel Auteuil in Benoît Jacquot’s Sade (2000).
