Jean-Denis Bonan

Jean-Denis Bonan

83 (1942-01-01)
Tunis, French Protectorate Tunisia [now Tunisia]

Jean-Denis Bonan was born in 1942 in Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia [now Tunisia]. He is a director and writer, known for A Woman Kills (1968), Bleu Pâlebourg (2019) and Océaniques - Des idées des hommes des oeuvres (1987).

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The Far Countries 1965 (5.4)

A couple is lost in a town where everyone speaks some strange language, and they can't find their way out.
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A Woman Kills 1968 (3.7)

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?
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Cinétracts 1968 (8)

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.