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name: "Bertrand Bonello"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bertrand-bonello"
fi1m_id: "bertrand-bonello"
imdb_id: "nm0094274"
tmdb_id: 146438
wikidata_id: "Q703975"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "11 September 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-30T20:57:30.075912+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bertrand Bonello

## Identity

Bertrand Bonello

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bertrand-bonello
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bertrand-bonello
- **IMDb ID:** nm0094274
- **TMDB ID:** 146438
- **Wikidata ID:** Q703975
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Bonello, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q703975, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094274/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/146438

Producer and director. Born 11 September 1968 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 11 September 1968, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Also known as:** Laurie Markovitch
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 directing
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Bonello, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q703975, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094274/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/146438

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Titane*](https://film.one/film/titane.md) (74)

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## Fi1m on Bertrand Bonello

> Bertrand Bonello shuts people in a building, gives them a tune they cannot shake, and waits for the routines to form. When it works, as in the Paris stretches of *The Beast*, few French directors are as patient; when it does not, the patience reads as chill.

A Roy Orbison song keeps coming back in *The Beast* (2024), in a Paris ballroom in 1910, a glass house in Los Angeles in 2014 and a laboratory in 2044, and nobody remarks on it. That is how Bonello works. He plants an object or a phrase in one era, lets it surface in another, and trusts us to notice. He played the piano from the age of five and still writes his own scores, which may be why his films are built on repetition and return rather than on plot.

He began in the late 1990s with *Something Organic* (1998), *The Pornographer* (2001) and *Tiresia* (2003), films that got him filed with the New French Extremity, and from *On War* (2008) he has produced his own work through his company, My New Picture. Then came the films people mean when they say his name: *House of Tolerance* (2011), daily life inside a Belle Époque brothel; *Saint Laurent* (2014), a biography that declined to explain its subject; *Nocturama* (2016), young radicals in a Paris department store who cannot say what they believe. After that came *Zombi Child* (2019), *Coma* (2022) and *The Beast*, where he took on more plot than usual and was, we thought, less sure what to do with it.

The habit that runs through all of them is the sealed room. A brothel, a department store, a glass house, a Paris handed to machines: Bonello likes to lock people in somewhere and watch what they do. Josée Deshaies, who has shot four of his films, makes those rooms feel lived in; in *The Beast* she refuses to light the wide black windows of the Los Angeles house at night. We were frightened by that stretch, more than we wanted to be, and noticed we had stopped breathing; we were also aware that for forty minutes Bonello was shooting a stalker thriller the way everyone shoots one. The fault critics keep finding is a coolness towards the people on screen, which some saw in *Nocturama* and read as irony. We saw it in *The Beast* too, and it is why the film runs half an hour long.

Léa Seydoux, three films in, is the actor who reaches through it. Bonello has called fear "one of the most beautiful feelings", and Seydoux is how he shows us, making the same fear read differently in a corset, a swimming pool and a machine. Anita Roth's cutting lets the eras answer one another, a glance in the ballroom met by a face in the laboratory. He has said *The Beast* is the end of something for him, and in 2026 he began filming a project about the canonisation of Pope John Paul II. Whatever that is, we would bet on a locked building, a repeated tune and a woman who has noticed something the others have not.

## Biography

Bertrand Bonello is a French film director, screenwriter, producer and composer. Born on 11 September 1968 in Nice, he has a background in classical music and composes scores for many of his films.

His feature films include *The Pornographer* (2001), *House of Tolerance* (2011), *Saint Laurent* (2014), *Nocturama* (2016), *Zombi Child* (2019) and *The Beast* (2023), on which he is also credited as writer, director, producer and composer. Several of his films have screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, bfi.org.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Titane* (2021), Fi1m 74, as Alexia's Father — [page](https://film.one/film/titane.md)

### Directed (1)

- *The Beast* (2024), Fi1m 76, as Réalisateur fond vert (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-beast.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Europe's New Faces* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Planet B* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *The Beast* (2024), as Réalisateur fond vert (voice) · Writer, Director, Producer, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-beast.md)
- *Transfigured – 12 Lives of Schoenberg* (2024), Stage Director, Director
- *Body of Crime* (2023), Actor
- *The Dam* (2023), Writer
- *Coma* (2022), Director, Music, Producer, Writer
- *Titane* (2021), as Alexia's Father — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/titane.md)
- *Où en êtes-vous? (Numéro 2)* (2020), Writer, Director
- *Zombi Child* (2019), Original Music Composer, Screenplay, Director, Music, Producer
- *Nocturama* (2016), Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Original Music Composer
- *Sarah Winchester: Ghost Opera* (2016), Director, Writer, Producer, Original Music Composer
- *Rouge* (2015), as Bertrand
- *Portrait of the Artist* (2015), as Bertrand · Music
- *Madeleine d'entre les Morts* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Saint Laurent* (2014), as Journalist Libé · Director, Co-Writer, Music
- *Where Are You, Bertrand Bonello?* (2014), Writer, Director
- *Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice* (2012), Director
- *House of Pleasures* (2011), Director, Writer, Original Music Composer, Producer, Still Photographer
- *Where the Boys Are* (2009), Director, Writer
- *On War* (2008), Screenplay, Director, Music, Executive Producer
- *My New Picture* (2007), Writer, Director, Producer, Music
- *Making-of : "We Should Not Exist"* (2007), Actor
- *We Should Not Exist* (2006), Actor
- *Cindy, the Doll Is Mine* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Grand Sons* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *The Bridge of Arts* (2004), as Un spectateur du Nô
- *Tiresia* (2003), Writer, Director, Music
- *The Pornographer* (2001), Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
- *Something Organic* (1998), Director, Original Music Composer, Writer
- *The Adventures of James and David* (1997), Music, Director, Writer
- *Qui je suis* (1996), as Pylade · Writer, Director
- *Le bus d’Alice* (1995), Director, Writer, Music
- *Santo Subito!*, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Original Music Composer

## Gallery

- ![Bertrand Bonello](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-12b394638b76.jpg) Bertrand Bonello — Ilya Mauter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Bertrand_Bonello_at_Lisbon_Film_Festival_2019.jpg/1280px-Bertrand_Bonello_at_Lisbon_Film_Festival_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bertrand Bonello en tournage (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-9d3e16255b17.jpg) Bertrand Bonello en tournage (2010) — Bonello Bertrand, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/BB_-_copie.jpg/1280px-BB_-_copie.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bertrand Bonello, Anaïs Romand et Jean-François Rauger présentant "L'Apollonide, souvenirs de la maison close" à la Cinémathèque française, en février 2024.](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-2b2e575e4ec1.jpg) Bertrand Bonello, Anaïs Romand et Jean-François Rauger présentant "L'Apollonide, souvenirs de la maison close" à la Cinémathèque française, en février 2024. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Bertrand_Bonello%2C_Ana%C3%AFs_Romand_et_Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Rauger_2024.jpg/1280px-Bertrand_Bonello%2C_Ana%C3%AFs_Romand_et_Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Rauger_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bertrand Bonello, Julia Faure et Louise Labèque présentant "Coma" à la Cinémathèque française, en mars 2024.](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-9d16e5df6807.jpg) Bertrand Bonello, Julia Faure et Louise Labèque présentant "Coma" à la Cinémathèque française, en mars 2024. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bertrand_Bonello%2C_Julia_Faure_et_Louise_Lab%C3%A8que_2024.jpg/1280px-Bertrand_Bonello%2C_Julia_Faure_et_Louise_Lab%C3%A8que_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bertrand Bonello](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-62314b4b7d99.jpg) Bertrand Bonello — Image via TMDB
- ![Bertrand Bonello](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-8a6c8436f741.jpg) Bertrand Bonello — Image via TMDB
- ![Bertrand Bonello](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-76d9415f52c7.jpg) Bertrand Bonello — Image via TMDB
- ![Bertrand Bonello au dîner des révélations des César du cinéma (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-224907497a25.jpg) Bertrand Bonello au dîner des révélations des César du cinéma (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Bertrand_Bonello_C%C3%A9sar_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Bertrand Bonello al CLAM 2024](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-613a285d4789.jpg) Bertrand Bonello al CLAM 2024 — Pitxiquin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Bertrand_Bonello_al_CLAM_2024.jpg/1280px-Bertrand_Bonello_al_CLAM_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bertrand Bonello](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-05cfd7445052.jpg) Bertrand Bonello — Image via TMDB
- ![Bertrand Bonello](https://film.one/media/person/11461/gallery-a57bdcf051d4.jpg) Bertrand Bonello — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2015: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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