Bruno Dumont

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Bruno Dumont born 1958 Bailleul France is a French film director To date he has directed ten feature films all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avantgarde His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival Two of Dumonts films have won the Grand Prix award both LHumanité 1999 and Flandres 2006 Dumonts Hadewijch won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics FIPRESCI Prize for Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival and will be distributed in France in 2009 and by IFC in the US in 2010 Dumont has a background of Greek and German Western philosophy and of corporate video His films often show the ugliness of 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 takes closeups of peoples bodies and story lines involving extreme emotions Dumont does not write traditional scripts for his films Instead he writes complete novels which are then the basis for his filmmaking He says that some of his favorite filmmakers are Stanley Kubrick Ingmar Bergman Pier Paolo Pasolini Roberto Rossellini and Abbas Kiarostami He is frequently considered an artistic heir to Robert Bresson His work has been associated with the New French Extremity His film Outside Satan premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruno Dumont licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia