Françoise Bonnot

Françoise Bonnot
Born (1939-08-17) 17 August 1939
Bois-Colombes, France[1]
Occupation film editor
Spouse(s) Henri Verneuil[2]
Parent(s) Monique Bonnot

Françoise Bonnot (born 1939) is a French film editor with more than 40 feature film credits.[3]

Bonnot is the daughter of Monique Bonnot, a film editor noted for several films directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. In her first film credit, Françoise Bonnot was the assistant to her mother on Melville's 1959 film, Two Men in Manhattan (1959). She and her mother co-edited the 1962 film, A Monkey in Winter, that was directed by Henri Verneuil. At about this time Bonnot married Verneuil; she edited three more of his films in the 1960s. Bonnot edited Melville's 1969 film, Army of Shadows, when her mother became unavailable. This film is about the French resistance fighters during the Second World War, and was a departure from Melville's more characteristic crime and detective films. Bonnot later remarked that Melville “... had known me since I was eight years old. It was like working with my big brother. He was a character––fascinating, charming, fun and tyrannical.”[4]

By 1968, Bonnot had commenced her notable collaboration with director Costa-Gavras that extended over eight films and nearly 30 years. Their first film together was Z (1969); James Berardinelli has written recently that, "Z was the third feature film from Greek-born Costa-Gavras, but it is the movie that captured him to the world's attention, winning a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. It introduced the director's signature approach of combining overt political messages with edge-of-the-seat tension."[5] After Z, their most widely recognized film together is probably Missing (1982). Their last film together was Mad City (1997).

Since 1997, Bonnot has edited the films directed by Julie Taymor, who had been known primarily as a stage director. Their films include Frida (2002) and The Tempest (2010).

Bonnot won the Academy Award for Film Editing for Z (1969), and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Missing (1982). She has been nominated three times for the César Award for Best Editing (for The Simple Past (1977), Hannah K. (1983) and Place Vendôme (1998)). She has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.[3][6]

Bonnot and Henri Verneuil have two children. Their son, Patrick Malakian, is a film director; Bonnot edited his 1994 French-language film Pourquoi maman est dans mon lit?.[3]

Filmography

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References

  1. ↑ Brennan, Sandra. "Françoise Bonnot". allmovie.com. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "BONNOT, Françoise". British Film Institute. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 Françoise Bonnot at the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ Desowitz, Bill (January–February 2011). "French Twist: Monteuse Françoise Bonnot et ‘La Tempête’". Editors' Guild Magazine 32 (1). Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  5. ↑ Berardinelli, James (2006). "Z". reelviews.com.
  6. ↑ "American Cinema Editors > Members". Archived from the original on 4 March 2008.

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