
Jean-Denis Bonan
Directing
Biography
Jean-Denis Bonan was born in 1942 in Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia [now Tunisia]. He is a director and writer, known for A Woman Kills (1968), Bleu Pâlebourg (2019) and Océaniques - Des idées des hommes des oeuvres (1987).
Known For

A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire.
The Nude Vampire

After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.
The Rape of the Vampire

An interview of French film director Marcel Carné by Didier Decoin
Marcel Carné: My Life in Film

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.
Cinétracts
A primer on French film director Marcel Carne's career through interviews with critics and close creative collaborators.
Carné, You Said Carné?

A couple is lost in a town where everyone speaks some strange language, and they can't find their way out.
The Far Countries

Experimental short with a fictional plot about using fantastic film artwork.
Liberta, agent spacial anti-mythe

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Bleu Pâlebourg

The questioning of an individual lost in the society of man.
A Season with Mankind

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?
A Woman Kills

It is the land of madmen. Those who earn the right to be mad see arabesques or lines blossom on their faces, which are a source of pride.
School for Fools
Documentary on director Jean-Denis Bonan.
On the Margin: The Cursed Films of Jean-Denis Bonan

Rushes of an incomplete short film, narrated by director Jean-Denis Bonan.
A Crime of Love
Monsieur Meuçieu wants to escape from an absurd society, in vain.
The Short Life of Monsieur Meucieu

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Wanted Sherlock Holmes

A tale of mad love.
Mathieu-Fou

In a world where everything is forbidden except what is obligatory, a man recalls what led him to work in a very strange fast food restaurant.
Sadness of the Anthropophagi

Paris, may 1968. In the streets, on the barricades, an insurrection of poetry.
Le Bel émoi de mai

A lost young girl enters the service of a couple of misfits with incomprehensible morals. Madame only wants to wear her wedding dress and the gentleman observes the spiders and sprays their webs with paint. They live in a bushy area, in a house overrun with boxes, and take charge of leaving without any idea of their destination. An inspector is trying to figure out what he can and God is walking around the property. One thing is certain, there is something wrong.