Benoît Jacquot
Benoît Jacquot (born 1947) is a French filmmaker with one of the most prolific filmographies in contemporary French cinema, with more than forty features across half a century. Born in Paris, he began as an assistant on Marguerite Duras's Nathalie Granger and India Song, and turned to writing and directing in 1975 with The Musician Killer, starring Anna Karina. He has favoured female-led psychological dramas and literary adaptations, with frequent collaborators including Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Ledoyen, and Léa Seydoux; notable films include La Désenchantée, A Single Girl (1995), Sade, and Farewell, My Queen (2012), which opened the Berlin Film Festival that year. In 2024 he was charged with rape, including of a minor, and barred by the French courts from directing or having contact with minors.