Bruno Nuytten

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Bruno Nuytten 2013 in Deauville

Bruno Nuytten (born August 28, 1945 in Paris ) is a French cameraman , film director and screenwriter .

Life

Bruno Nuytten attended the Belgian film school INSAS and obtained a diploma from the film school in Vaugirard. From the 1970s he was appointed chief cameraman and worked on several films with Marguerite Duras . The writer Duras dedicated her story L'Amant (The Lover) to him.

Nuytten established himself as one of the leading cameramen in France. In 1977 he received the César for Best Cinematography for Our Way is the Best and Barocco , and in 1984 for Am Rande der Nacht . In 1988 he made his debut as a director with the biopic Camille Claudel , for which he also wrote the screenplay. His then partner, the French actress Isabelle Adjani , embodied the sculptor and painter Camille Claudel , while Gérard Depardieu took on the role of Auguste Rodin . The film was a great success and was awarded the César for Best Picture in 1989. Isabelle Adjani won the award for Best Actress and a Silver Bear and was at the Oscars in 1990 with an Oscar nomination as Best Actress considered. Adjani and Nuytten have a son (* 1979).

Filmography (selection)

script
  • 1986: Double messieurs
Director
  • 1988: Camille Claudel (also screenplay)
  • 2001: Journey into the polar night (Jim la nuit) (also screenplay and camera)
  • 2004: Once upon a time ... The last tango in Paris (Il était une fois ... Le dernier Tango à Paris)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . Volume 6, p. 22. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .