Bruno Dumont

Bruno Dumont
Date of Birth: 14 Mar 1958
Country: France
Biography: Bruno Dumont (born 14 March 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter. To date, he has directed ten feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde.
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 14 (Director), 13 (Writer)
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In a town near Lille, melancholy police superintendent Pharaon De Winter lives with his mother. An 11-year-old girl has been raped and murdered. Over the next week, De Winter investigates and grieves, his face nearly expressionless. He bikes, he gardens. He accompanies his neighbors, Joseph and Domino, to dinner and to the seaside; he even observes them in vigorous if not rough coitus... (imdb)
Twentynine Palms
Twentynine Palms is a small, remote American town deep in the desert of central California. It provides the unique setting for this darkly comedic chronicle of the romantic and sexual life of a young couple in love. (Wellspring Media)
Flanders
André Demester shares his time between his farm and walks with Barbe, his childhood friend. He loves her secretly and painfully, accepting from her the little that she can give him. Along with the others his age, Demester leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn Demester into a warrior. As the seasons go by, Barbe, alone and wasting away, waits for the soldiers to return. Will Demester's boundless love for Barbe save him? (International Film Circuit)
La Vie de Jésus
A social movie about life nowadays in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed and spend their time going around harrassing Arab immigrants. When Freddy's girlfriend falls for an Arab man, turmoil ensues. (imdb)
Hadewijch
Céline is not only a theology student. She believes. Her single-minded devotion arouses the concern and suspicion of her Mother Superior, who decides to expel the intense young woman, sending her out into the world to discover her true self. Céline is young and impressionable, and her sacrifices are extreme. Her family is haute bourgeois and their lifestyle is lavish and refined... (indiewire.com)
Outside Satan
A miracle reveals an unseen side of a village loner. (imdb)
Camille Claudel 1915
Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel. (imdb)
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P'tit Quinquin (2014) - TV Mini-Series
Mini-series about a murder investigation set among the rural communities of northern France.
Slack Bay
Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide. There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. (imdb)
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
France, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the suffering caused by the English. Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but Jeannette is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of the Kingdom of France. Carried by her faith, she will become Joan of Arc. (Luxbox)
Coincoin et les z\
Quinquin is now a grown-up and goes by the nickname CoinCoin. He hangs out on the Côte D'Opale and attends meetings of the Nationalist Party with his childhood friend Fatso. His old love, Eve, has abandoned him for Corinne. When a strange magma is found near the town, the inhabitants suddenly start to behave very weirdly. Our two heroes, Captain Van Der Weyden and his loyal assistant Carpentier, investigate these alien attacks. The Extra-Human invasion has begun. (imdb)
Joan of Arc
For "Joan of Arc," Dumont follows his "Jeanette" star Lise Leplat Prudhomme into the famous 15th century saga as she leads the French army on a holy mission that leads to charges of heresy and, eventually, her death. (Eric Kohn, IndieWire)
France
A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident. (imdb)
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A small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights. (imdb)