Bruno Dumont

Bruno Dumont (born 1958, Bailleul, France) is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His film "L'humanité" won several awards at the Cannes film festival in 1999, including the Jury Grand Prize.

Dumont has a background of Greek and German (Western) philosophy, and of corporate video. [http://www.mastersofcinema.org/reviews/dumont.htm] 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.

He says that some of his favorite filmmakers are Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, and Abbas Kiarostami.

His work has been associated with the New French Extremity.Quandt, James, "Flesh & Blood: Sex and violence in recent French cinema", "ArtForum", February 2004 [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_42/ai_113389507] Access date: 10 July 2008.]

Filmography

Feature films

* "La vie de Jésus / The Life of Jesus" (1997)
* "L'humanité / Humanity" (1999)
* "Twentynine Palms" (2003)
* "Flandres / Flanders" (2006)
* "Hadewijch" (2009)

hort films

* "Paris" (1993)
* "Marie et Freddy / Marie and Freddy" (1994)

DVD Releases

*La vie de Jésus - Director-approved Masters of Cinema Series edition - Released in the UK 21 July 2008Official website: [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/la-vie-de-jesus/ MoC Series website for 'La vie de Jésus']

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0241622/ IMDb entry]
* [http://www.flandres-lefilm.com/ Flandres official site]
* [http://tadrart.com/fr/films/29palms/projet.html Twentynine Palms official site]
* [http://www.mastersofcinema.org/reviews/dumont.htm Masters of Cinema article]
* [http://www.wellspring.com/movies/text.html?movie_id=26&page=interviews&sidebar=128&PHPSESSID=cc5ee76cdf0de4148c49921b0ac04dce Dumont's notes on Twentynine Palms] Interviews and articles
* [http://www.wsws.org/arts/1997/sep1997/freddy.shtml World Socialist Web Site 20 October 1997]
* [http://www.indiewire.com/people/int_Dumont_Brian_980515.html Indie Wire 15 May 1998]
* [http://www.timeout.com/newyork/DetailsAr.do?file=/film/247/247.film.humanit%258e.open.html Time Out New York 15 June 2000]
* [http://www.fluctuat.net/cinema/interview/dumont.htm Fluctuat about L’Humanité (french)]
* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/19/dumont_bodies.html Senses of Cinema March 2002]
* [http://www.arkepix.com/kinok/Bruno%20DUMONT/dumont_interview.html Kinok 14 September 2003]
* [http://www.filmdeculte.com/entretien/dumont1.php Film de Culte (french)]
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0413,gonzalez,52250,20.html Village Voice 30 March 2004]
* [http://www.indiewire.com/people/people_040409dumont.html Indie Wire 9 April 2004]
* [http://www.cineuropa.org/interview.aspx?lang=en&documentID=64736 Cineuropa 23 May 2006]
* [http://www.fluctuat.net/3520-Bruno-Dumont,3520 Fluctuat 23 August 2006 (french)]
* [http://www.premiere.fr/articles/2006/08/bruno-dumont-dit-tout-1.html Premiere 28 August 2006 (french)]
* [http://www.telerama.fr/cinema/M0608281055060.html Telerama 2 September 2006 (french)]
* [http://www.dvdrama.com/news.php?16462 DVDrama 24 September 2006 (french)]
* [http://www.filmdeculte.com/coupdeprojo/dumont.php Film de Culte September 2006 (french)]
* [http://www.newstatesman.com/200704090035 New Statesman 9 April 2007]

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