Samuel Benchetrit Biography
MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Director , Screenwriter more
Nationality French
Birth June 26, 1973 (Champigny-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne – France)
BIOGRAPHY
Samuel Benchetrit began his career as a screenwriter and director by writing and directing short films: Saint-Valentin (1995) and Nouvelle de la tour L (2000). At the same time, he was very active in the theater, several times directing Jean-Louis Trintignant and his daughter Marie Trintignant (then his wife) in the plays Poèmes à Lou (1999) by Guillaume Apollinaire and Comédie sur un quai de gare (1999 ). 2001).
This fruitful collaboration with the two actors continued in the cinema with Samuel Benchetrit’s first feature film, Janis and John (2003). This comedy tells the story of how a lost young woman and an unemployed nerdy actor disguised as Janis Joplin and John Lennon lookalikes set up a scam that takes an unexpected turn.
He then devoted himself to writing the two volumes of his second novel, Les Chroniques de l’Asphalte , published in 2005 and 2007, as well as to the play Minus deux which he directed in 2005. And It was two years later that he returned to the sets, to direct Anna Mouglalis (his partner in the city), Edouard Baer and Jean Rochefort in I always dreamed of being a gangster , a mix of comedy and black and white detective film, which received the award for best screenplay at the 27th Sundance Film Festival .
A reward which encourages the filmmaker to continue his momentum since, while working on his third volume of The Asphalt Chronicles , Samuel Benchetrit launched his next project which was released in 2011: Chez Gino , a film homage to the Italian comedies of the 1960s. 1970 with José Garcia , Anna Mouglalis and veteran Ben Gazzara . Unfortunately, success was not forthcoming.
Samuel Benchetrit then tackles a long-standing project that he has been mulling over since 2007, the dramatic comedy Asphalt , which brings together two of the short stories from the “Asphalt Chronicles” that the director wrote in 2005. The film is presented in Special Screenings at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and includes among others Isabelle Huppert , Gustave Kervern , Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and… Michael Pitt .
He returned in 2017 with the disturbing Dog , in which Vincent Macaigne lost everything and literally became the dog ofBouli Lanners , a sadistic pet store owner. Four years later, he changed register with This music does not play for anyone , an choral film with an impressive cast ( François Damiens , Ramzy Bedia , Vanessa Paradis , JoeyStarr , etc.) which he defined as “an absurd and poetic comedy, with tough people who will become soft people, seized by a tenderness that goes beyond them.”
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