Françoise Bonnot

Personal Info

Known For Editor

Gender Female

Birthday 1939-08-17

Deathday 2018-06-09 (78 years old)

Place of Birth Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Françoise Bonnot

Biography

Françoise Bonnot (17 August 1939 – 9 June 2018) was a French film editor with more than 40 feature film credits. Bonnot was the daughter of Monique Bonnot, a film editor noted for several films directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. In her first film credit, Françoise Bonnot was the assistant to her mother on Melville's 1959 film, Two Men in Manhattan (1959). She and her mother co-edited the 1962 film, A Monkey in Winter, that was directed by Henri Verneuil. At about this time Bonnot married Verneuil; she edited three more of his films in the 1960s. Bonnot edited Melville's 1969 film, Army of Shadows, when her mother became unavailable. This film is about the French resistance fighters during the Second World War, and was a departure from Melville's more characteristic crime and detective films. Bonnot later remarked that Melville “... had known me since I was eight years old. It was like working with my big brother. He was a character––fascinating, charming, fun and tyrannical.” By 1968, Bonnot had commenced her notable collaboration with director Costa-Gavras that extended over eight films and nearly 30 years. Their first film together was Z (1969); James Berardinelli has written recently that, "Z was the third feature film from Greek-born Costa-Gavras, but it is the movie that captured him to the world's attention, winning a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. It introduced the director's signature approach of combining overt political messages with edge-of-the-seat tension." After Z, their most widely recognized film together is probably Missing (1982). Their last film together was Mad City (1997). Throughout her life, Bonnot edited the films directed by Julie Taymor, who had been known primarily as a stage director. Their films include Frida (2002) and The Tempest (2010). Bonnot won the Academy Award for Film Editing for Z (1969), and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Missing (1982). She was nominated three times for the César Award for Best Editing (for The Simple Past (1977), Hannah K. (1983) and Place Vendôme (1998)). She had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. Bonnot and Henri Verneuil had two children. Their son, Patrick Malakian, is a film director; Bonnot edited his 1994 French-language film Pourquoi maman est dans mon lit?. Bonnot died on 9 June 2018 in Paris, France aged 78. Source: Article "Françoise Bonnot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Editor

2012
El Gusto

as Editor

2010
The Tempest

as Editor

2010
A View of Love

as Editor

2007
2004
Around the Bend

as Editor

2002
Frida

as Editor

2000
1999
Titus

as Editor

1998
Place Vendôme

as Editor

1997
Mad City

as Editor

1996
The Apartment

as Editor

1987
The Sicilian

as Editor

1985
1984
Top Secret!

as Editor

1984
Swann in Love

as Editor

1983
Hanna K.

as Editor

1982
Missing

as Editor

1979
Womanlight

as Editor

1978
1976
The Tenant

as Editor

1975
Special Section

as Editor

1975
1974
Life Size

as Editor

1973
1972
State of Siege

as Editor

1970
The Confession

as Editor

1969
Army of Shadows

as Editor

1969
Z

as Editor

1967
The 25th Hour

as Editor

1963
1962
1959
Two Men in Manhattan

as Assistant Editor

Sound

1982
Missing

as ADR Mixer