Bertrand Bonello
Bertrand Bonello is a French film director, screenwriter, producer, composer and actor. Most known for House of Tolerance (2011), Saint Laurent (2014), Nocturama (2016) and The Beast (2023). His early work has been associated with the New French Extremity, Something Organic (1998), The Pornographer (2001). He also starred in Portrait of the Artist (2015) and Titane (2021). He was nominated for the César Award for Best Director for Saint Laurent, and was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2015.
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Defining films
Critical context
Bertrand Bonello’s movies coalesce into a saga of political disillusionments. His characters are would-be revolutionaries, doomed youths, and indecisive figures paralyzed in the face of new political futures. Grappling with his cinema requires context of his birth-year. In 1968, France was in the midst of Les Trente Glorieuses, three decades of post-WWII economic development, modernization, and mass consumerism. Despite a long revolutionary lineage, large-scale protest movements lay mostly…
