Bruno Dumont (born 1958, Bailleul, France) is a French film director. To date, he has directed four feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His film L'humanité won several awards at the Cannes film festival in 1999, including the Jury Grand Prize. Dumont has a background of Greek and German philosophy, and of corporate video.[1] His films often show extreme violence and provocative sexual behavior, 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 story lines involving extreme emotions. He says that some of his favorite filmmakers are Stanley Kubrick,Ingmar Bergman, Pasolini, Rossellini, and Kiarostami.
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Filmography
Feature Films
- La vie de Jésus / The Life of Jesus (1997)
- L'humanité / Humanity (1999)
- Twentynine Palms (2003)
- Flandres / Flanders (2006)
- Hadewijch (2008)
Short Films
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)
- New Statesman 9 April 2007
