Movies: Benoît Jacquot

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Jeanne is interned in a psychiatric hospital. She claims to be Joan of Arc....

Following her performances in recent seasons in Verdi’s La travita on the world’s major opera stages – the Metropolitan, New York, La Scala, Milan, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Paris Opera – Diana Damrau has become the primary interpreter of V...

When Duras saw 'La mort du jeune aviateur anglais', she told Benoît Jacquot that the film was about him, not her. "She treated me like a thief. So I offered to make another film, where she could say whatever she wanted about her life as a writer. Tha...

Meeting with Kinshi Tsuruta, the eminent Japanese singer master of biwa. During a lesson with two of his students, devoted to the secular recitation of epics and feudal struggles of the 17th century. The musician looks back on the transformations she...

Marguerite Duras tells the story of the death of a young English aviator in a French village....