Bruno Dumont
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Bruno Dumont (born 1958, Bailleul, France) is a French film director. He has directed four feature films, which border somewhere between realistic drama and avant-garde. His film L'humanité won several awards at the Cannes film festival in 1999, including the Grand Prize of the Jury.
Dumont has a background of Greek and German philosophy, and corporate video.[1] His films often show extreme violence and sexual behaviour, and are usually classified as "art films". Dumont has himself likened his films to visual arts, and he typically uses long shots, close-ups of people's bodies and storylines involving extreme emotions.
He claims that some of his favourite filmmakers are Bresson, Pasolini, Rossellini and Kiarostami.
[edit] Filmography
- Flandres (2006)
- Twentynine Palms (2003)
- L'Humanité (1999)
- La Vie de Jésus (1997)
- Marie et Freddy (short film) (1994)
- Paris (short film) (1993)
- Arthur et les fusées (TV documentary - 4x52') (1993)
[edit] External links
- IMDB entry
- Flandres official site
- Twentynine Palms official site
- Masters of Cinema article
- Dumont's notes on Twentynine Palms
Interviews and articles
- World Socialist Web Site October 20, 1997
- Indie Wire May 15, 1998
- Time Out New York June 15, 2000
- Fluctuat about L’Humanité (french)
- Senses of Cinema March 2002
- Kinok September 14, 2003
- Film de Culte (french)
- Village Voice March 30, 2004
- Indie Wire Apr 09, 2004
- Cineuropa May 23, 2006
- Fluctuat August 23, 2006 (french)
- Premiere August 28, 2006 (french)
- Telerama September 02, 2006 (french)
- DVDrama September 24, 2006 (french)
- Film de Culte September 2006 (french)