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Laurent Boutonnat

Laurent Boutonnat

Directing

Biography

Laurent Boutonnat is a French filmmaker and music producer. He grew up in Paris, France, and developed a passion for music very early on (he played the piano from the age of five) and cinema (he made small short films at a very young age, including a strange adaptation of Bambi in 1971). He stopped studying at the age of fifteen, looking for work and taking up writing, he abandons music and became more and more interested in cinema. At the age of seventeen, he made his first film, the medium-length film, Ballade de la Féconductrice, which was screened for two weeks in Paris in 1980. He worked as a cameraman alongside reporter Jean-François Chauvel then devoted himself to producing television commercials. He is best known for discovering the French pop star Mylène Farmer together with his friend and collaborater Jérôme Dahan. They wrote Mylène's debut song "Maman a tort", and Boutonnat directed the music video for it. He has since made 20 music videos for Farmer, and videos for other artists including Alizée, and Nathalie Cardone.

Known For

Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création
7.0

This three-part documentary goes behind the scenes of the creation of Mylène Farmer's 2019 residency at the Paris la Défense Arena. This is one of the largest live shows ever produced in Europe and was at the time the largest show produced by a French female artist. It is also an autobiographical work in which the iconic Mylène Farmer speaks intimately about her creative work. Each episode of the series lifts the veil on one segment of the show's preparations.

Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création

2020
Jacquou the Rebel
6.5

In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...

Jacquou the Rebel

2007
Mylène Farmer: L'âme-stram-gram
N/A

Twin sisters and soul mates are confronted by a Mongol horde and use their superpowers to defend themselves to the death. The song title is a play on words for a French counting rhyme - "Am stram gram". The French word "âme" means "soul" in English.

Mylène Farmer: L'âme-stram-gram

1999
Giorgino
6.4

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgino finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves. There he also meets the mysterious Catherine....

Giorgino

1994
Mylene Farmer: Music Videos II & III
7.9

Includes videos of Mylène Farmer made ​​by Laurent Boutonnat, Luc Besson, Abel Ferrara and Marcus Nispel.

Mylene Farmer: Music Videos II & III

2001
Mylène Farmer: Live at Bercy
7.3

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Mylène Farmer: Live at Bercy

1997
Timeless: The Film
8.2

Timeless (stylized as Timel3ss) was the sixth concert tour by French recording artist, Mylène Farmer. The tour supported the singer's ninth studio album, Monkey Me. The tour began on September 7, 2013 and ended on December 3, 2013. It played 39 shows in 5 countries. Over 535,000 people saw Mylène Farmer live on this tour.

Timeless: The Film

2014
Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)
8.0

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Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)

2021
Mylène Farmer: Mylenium Tour
8.6

Mylenium Tour is Mylène Farmer's 1999-2000 concert tour in support of her fifth studio album, Innamoramento. According to the French magazine Instant-Mag, the "Mylenium Tour is more beautiful [than the 1996 tour] by the originality of the selection of songs, the grandiose stage, an entry even more impressive, and especially an overwhelming and perfect end, perhaps more comparable to that of the 1989 tour." More than 450,000 people attended the concert series that cost more than 20 million euros. A musical channel of the Russian television, MUZ TV, elected "Mylenium Tour" as the best concert in the world.

Mylène Farmer: Mylenium Tour

2000
Mylène Farmer: Pourvu qu'elles soient douces (Libertine II)
7.3

Story of two women's feud continues during the events of The Seven Years' War Music video for Mylène Farmer's song Pourvu qu'elles soient douces

Mylène Farmer: Pourvu qu'elles soient douces (Libertine II)

1988
Mylène Farmer: Libertine
6.0

The action takes place in the middle of the 18th century in France. A young woman and the man prepared to enter into a duel with pistols, in the presence of woman in the red. Libertine kills a person and flees on a white horse, while the woman in red is threatening revenge.

Mylène Farmer: Libertine

1986
Mylène Farmer : Music Videos IV
8.2

Find the unique visual universe of Mylène Farmer accompanying the albums "Les Mots," and "Avant que l'ombre...." from 2001 to 2005.

Mylène Farmer : Music Videos IV

2006
Mylène Farmer: Ainsi soit je...
N/A

Tribute to Walt Disney's animated feature, Bambi. The video was the singer's favourite at the time, and was her sole one in sepia tone. It was broadcast for the first time in the television show Top 50 on Canal+ a few weeks after the single release. The scene of the drowning, shot in the same pond and with almost the same team as that for "Plus grandir", was very difficult to film because the singer was then afraid of the water. Farmer said in an interview that the sobriety of the clip was well suited to this song.

Mylène Farmer: Ainsi soit je...

1988
Mylène Farmer: Souviens-toi du jour
2.0

Official music video "Souviens-toi du jour" by Mylène Farmer. Inspired by Primo Levi's book If This Is a Man, the song deals with the theme of the Holocaust.

Mylène Farmer: Souviens-toi du jour

1999
Mylène Farmer : En concert
7.5

Mylène Farmer en concert is Mylène Farmer's 1989 concert tour in support of her second studio album, Ainsi soit je.... It was the first tour of the singer.

Mylène Farmer : En concert

1989
Mylène Farmer : Music Videos
8.7

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Mylène Farmer : Music Videos

2001
Mylène Farmer: California
5.0

Farmer appears in the movie in two roles: as a woman of high society, and as a street prostitute. The partner of the singer in the video is an American TV actor Giancarlo Esposito, who also played two roles: a businessman and a pimp. Prostitutes, appearing in the video are not actresses, but real representatives of their profession. Mylène admitted that she fell in love with this role. Abel Ferrara recalled that Farmer later thanked him for his professional work.

Mylène Farmer: California

1996
La Ballade de la féconductrice
9.0

A Young Woman seduce a priest and curse him, Killing everyone around him.

La Ballade de la féconductrice

1979
Mylène Farmer: Sans logique
N/A

Farmer and her lover sat in the middle of a desolate, barren landscape on a grim cloudy day. As a snake slithers nearby, the pair cut their palms and rub their hands together to mix their blood. A little girl picks up a statue of Christ found in the mud and sticks it on a cross. Then several Gypsies, dressed in black clothes and veils, come to sit on a bench to watch a human bullfight.

Mylène Farmer: Sans logique

1989
Mylène Farmer: Tristana
9.0

In the heart of the Russian plains, in a castle, a cruel Tsarina summons her faithful servant, a Monk, to get news of the Kingdom.

Mylène Farmer: Tristana

1987