
Bruno Dumont
Biography
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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 avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité (1999) and Flandres (2006). Dumont's 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 U.S. 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, close-ups of people's 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.
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Acting (7 movies)
Directing (13 movies)

The Life of Jesus
1997

Twentynine Palms
2003

Flanders
2006

Humanité
1999

Hadewijch
2009

Outside Satan
2011

Camille Claudel, 1915
2013

Slack Bay
2016

The Empire
2024

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
2017

CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans
2018

Joan of Arc
2019

France
2021
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| The Life of Jesus | 1997 | Writer | 
| Humanité | 1999 | Writer | 
| Twentynine Palms | 2003 | Writer | 
| Flanders | 2006 | Writer | 
| Hadewijch | 2009 | Writer | 
| Outside Satan | 2011 | Screenplay | 
| Camille Claudel, 1915 | 2013 | Writer | 
| Slack Bay | 2016 | Screenplay | 
| Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc | 2017 | Writer | 
| CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans | 2018 | Screenplay | 
| Joan of Arc | 2019 | Writer | 
| France | 2021 | Writer | 
| The Empire | 2024 | Writer | 






