Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire ([sɑ̃.dʁin bɔ.nɛʁ]; born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for À Nos Amours (1983), the César Award for Best Actress for Vagabond (1985) and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for La Cérémonie (1995). Her other films include Under the Sun of Satan (1987), Monsieur Hire (1989), East/West (1999) and The Final Lesson (2015).
Sandrine Bonnaire | |
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Sandrine Bonnaire as president of the 2012 Deauville American Film Festival | |
Born | |
Occupation | Actress, film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1982–present |
Spouse(s) | Guillaume Laurant (married 2003–15)[1] |
Partner(s) | William Hurt (1992–1997) |
Children | 2 |
Life and career
Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began in 1983, when she starred in the Maurice Pialat film À Nos Amours at age 16. She played a girl from Paris beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984 she received the César Award for Most Promising Actress.
Her international breakthrough came in 1985 when she played the main character in Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi), directed by Agnès Varda, for which she won her second César Award. She portrays a vagrant who fails both physically and morally. The film premiered at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. The jury deemed Bonnaire's performance among the best of the year, but decided against awarding her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress prize because both the actresses they judged to have given the best performances were in films that won major awards.[2]
Bonnaire worked again with Pialat on Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan) which won the Palme d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Monsieur Hire, directed by Patrice Leconte, followed in 1989, along with further work with directors Jacques Doillon and Claude Sautet.
In 1995 Bonnaire starred as an apparently simple maid in Claude Chabrol's widely acclaimed thriller La Cérémonie. The film and its stars won awards internationally, including Best Actress at the 52nd Venice Film Festival for both Bonnaire and co-star Isabelle Huppert.
In 2004 Bonnaire starred in another Leconte film, Intimate Strangers, which was an arthouse box-office hit in the United States.[3]
In 2017 Bonnaire starred in Gaël Morel's film about reverse immigration, Prendre le large.[4] At the 8th Magritte Awards she received an Honorary Magritte Award from the Académie André Delvaux.[5]
Personal life
Bonnaire has a daughter, Jeanne, from a relationship with actor William Hurt, whom she met in 1991 during filming of the Albert Camus novel The Plague (La Peste). They acted together in Secrets Shared with a Stranger (1994). In 2003, she married actor and screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, with whom she has a second daughter, Adèle.[1] They divorced in 2015.[1]
Selected filmography
As actress
Year | Title | Role | Director |
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1982 | Les sous-doués en vacances | Extra (Uncredited) | Claude Zidi |
1983 | À nos amours | Suzanne | Maurice Pialat |
1984 | Tir à vue[6] ("Fire on Sight"[7]) | Marilyn | Marc Angelo |
1985 | Blanche et Marie[8] | Marie | Jacques Renard |
Le meilleur de la vie[9] ("A better Life"[10]) | Veronique | Renaud Victor | |
Police | Lydie | Maurice Pialat | |
Sans toit ni loi ("Vagabond") | Mona Bergeron | Agnès Varda | |
1986 | La Puritaine[11][12] ("The Prude"[13]) | Manon | Jacques Doillon |
1987 | Sous le soleil de Satan | Mouchette | Maurice Pialat |
Jaune revolver[14][15] | Angèle[16] | Olivier Langlois | |
Les Innocents | Jeanne | André Téchiné | |
1988 | Quelques jours avec moi ("A Few Days With Me"[17]) | Francine | Claude Sautet |
Peaux de vaches | Annie | Patricia Mazuy | |
1989 | Monsieur Hire | Alice | Patrice Leconte |
1990 | La Captive du désert | the captive | Raymond Depardon |
Verso sera (a.k.a. Dans la soirée) | Stella | Francesca Archibugi | |
1991 | Le ciel de Paris ("The Sky Above Paris"[18]) | Suzanne | Michel Béna |
La Peste ("The Plague"[19]) | Martine | Luis Puenzo | |
1992 | Prague | Elena | Ian Sellar |
1994 | Joan the Maiden, Part 1: The Battles and Joan the Maiden, Part 2: The Prisons | Joan of Arc | Jacques Rivette |
1995 | Les Cent et une Nuits de Simon Cinéma | the female vagabond | Agnès Varda |
La Cérémonie | Sophie | Claude Chabrol | |
1996 | Never Ever | Katherine | Charles Finch |
1997 | Die Schuld der Liebe[20][21] ("Debt of Love"[22]) | Monika | Andreas Gruber |
1998 | Secret défense | Sylvie | Jacques Rivette |
1998 | Stolen Life | Olga | Yves Angelo |
1999 | Au cœur du mensonge | Vivianne | Claude Chabrol |
Est-Ouest | Marie | Régis Wargnier | |
2001 | Mademoiselle[23] | Claire | Philippe Lioret |
C'est la vie[24] | Suzanne | Jean-Pierre Améris | |
2002 | Femme fatale | As herself | Brian De Palma |
2003 | Resistance | Lucette | Todd Komarnicki |
2004 | Confidences trop intimes | Anna | Patrice Leconte |
Le Cou de la girafe ("The Giraffe’s Neck"[25]) | Hélène | Safy Nebbou | |
L'Équipier | Mabé | Philippe Lioret | |
2006 | Je crois que je l'aime ("Could This Be Love?"[26]) | Elsa | Pierre Jolivet |
Demandez la permission aux enfants[27] | Marie | Eric Civanyan | |
2007 | Un Coeur Simple[28] ("Simple Heart"[29]) | Félicité | Marion Laine |
2008 | L'Empreinte de l'ange | Claire | Safy Nebbou |
2009 | Joueuse | Hélène | Caroline Bottaro |
2013 | Adieu Paris | Françoise Dupret | Franziska Buch |
2014 | Salaud, on t'aime | Nathalie Béranger | Claude Lelouch |
Soul of a Spy | Jacqueline | Vladimir Bortko | |
Rouge sang (TV movie) | Jacqueline | Xavier Durringer | |
2015 | The Final Lesson | Diane | Pascale Pouzadoux |
2016 | Heaven Will Wait | ||
2017 | Capitaine Marleau | Jeanne Dewaere | Josée Dayan |
2017 | A Season in France | ||
2017 | Catch the Wind | ||
2021 | Umami | Louise Carvin | Slony Sow |
As director/screenwriter
Year | Title | Cast | Notes |
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2007 | Elle s'appelle Sabine (Her Name is Sabine) | Sabine Bonnaire | Documentary Cannes Film Festival - Directors' Fortnight or Critics' Week French Syndicate of Cinema Critics - Best First Film Globe de Cristal for Best Documentary Nominated - Cannes Film Festival - Golden Camera Nominated - Chicago International Film Festival - Best Documentary Nominated - César Award for Best Documentary Film |
2011 | J'enrage de son absence[30] | William Hurt, Alexandra Lamy | feature film |
2016 | Marianne Faithfull - Fleur d'âme | Marianne Faithfull, Sandrine Bonnaire | documentary film |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Film | Result |
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1984 | César Award | Most Promising Actress | À nos amours | Won |
1986 | César Award | Best Actress | Sans toit ni loi | Won |
1988 | César Award | Best Actress | Sous le soleil de Satan | Nominated |
1990 | César Award | Best Actress | Monsieur Hire | Nominated |
1995 | César Award | Best Actress | Joan the Maiden | Nominated |
Volpi Cup (Venice Film Festival) | Best Actress | La Cérémonie | Won | |
1996 | César Award | Best Actress | La Cérémonie | Nominated |
2000 | César Award | Best Actress | Est-Ouest | Nominated |
References
- Col, Louise (2016-03-08). "Sandrine Bonnaire : célibataire et heureuse depuis son divorce de Guillaume Laurant". Terrafemina (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- "Venice Festival awards top prize to Varda film". New York Times. 7 September 1985.
- At A Popular Annual Showcase in New York, Considering French Cinema's Identity Crisis
- Cinéma : Sandrine Bonnaire, digne et fière dans "Prendre le large", France TV Info, November 05, 2017
- Meskens, Joëlle (2 February 2018). "Sandrine Bonnaire mise à l'honneur aux Magritte: «Le cinéma, c'est ma façon d'être citoyenne»". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- "Tir a Vue (1984)". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Aka: Fire on Sight". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Blanche et Marie". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Le Meilleur De La Vie". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Aka: A Better Life". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "La Puritaine". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "La Puritaine". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Aka: The Prude". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Jaune revolver". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Jaune revolver". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "La Puritaine". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Aka: A Few Days with Me". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Aka: The Sky Above Paris". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Aka: The Plague". Archived from the original on 2013-01-23. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Die Schuld der Liebe". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Die Schuld der Liebe". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Aka: Debt of Love". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Mademoiselle (2001)". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "C'est la vie (2001)". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Aka: The Giraffe's Neck". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Could This Be Love?". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Demandez la permission aux enfants". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Un coeur simple (2008)". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "Simple Heart (2008)". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- "J'enrage de son absence". Retrieved 2012-09-22.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sandrine Bonnaire. |
- Sandrine Bonnaire on IMDb
- Sandrine Bonnaire's Cinématon – A 4 minutes online portrait by Gérard Courant
- Sandrine Bonnaire at AllMovie
- Sandrine Bonnaire at Film Reference
- Sandrine Bonnaire at Allocine (in French)