Samuel Benchetrit (born 26 June 1973) is a French writer, actor, scenarist, and director.
Biography
Benchetrit was born to a family of
Romani,
Sephardic and
Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
At age fifteen, he quit school to focus on photography.
Born in
Champigny-sur-Marne
Champigny-sur-Marne (, literally ''Champigny on Marne'') is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.
Name
Champigny-sur-Marne was originally called simply Champigny. The name Champigny ul ...
, Benchetrit was married to French actress
Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (; 21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during the span of her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an acto ...
from 1998 until her murder by her lover
Bertrand Cantat
Bertrand Cantat (born 5 March 1964) is a French songwriter, singer, and musician known for being the former frontman of the rock band Noir Désir. In 2003, he was proven guilty without a doubt and convicted of the murder ("murder with indirect in ...
in 2003. On 17 April 1998 the couple had a child, . From 2005 to 2012 Benchetrit was in a relationship with French actress
Anna Mouglalis; they have a daughter, Saül, born on 7 March 2007. In 2016, while shooting his fifth film, ''Dog'', Benchetrit fell in love with
Vanessa Paradis
Vanessa Chantal Paradis (; born 22 December 1972) is a French singer, model, and actress. Paradis became a child star at the age of 14 with the international success of her single "Joe le taxi" (1987). At age 18, she was awarded France's hig ...
, whom he directed. They married in June 2018.
Works
Books
* 2000 : ''Récit d'un branleur'' (Tale of a Jerk-Off)
* 2005 : ''Les Chroniques de l'Asphalte'' (Asphalt Chronicles) (tome I)
* 2007 : ''Les Chroniques de l'Asphalte'' (Asphalt Chronicles) (tome II)
* 2009 : ''Le Cœur en dehors''
* 2010 : ''Les Chroniques de l'Asphalte'', (Asphalt Chronicles) (tome III)
* 2015 : ''Chien'' Edition Grasset
Theatre
* 2001 : ''Comédie sur un quai de gare'' (Comedy on a Railway Platform)
* 2005 : ''Moins deux'' (This title is a rich pun, translating as: "ASAP", "Two Down", "Two Below", and "Minus Two")
Films
;As director
* 2000 : ''Nouvelle de la tour L'' (short film) ("Story of Tower L")
* 2003 : ''Janis et John'' (Janis And John)
* 2007 : ''J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster'' (
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster)
* 2008 : ''YSL film''
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SAMUEL BENCHETRIT – T Magazine Blog – NYTimes.com
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* 2015 : ''
Asphalte''
* 2017 : ''Dog''
;As actor
* 2005 : ''
Backstage'' (Director :
Emmanuelle Bercot)
* 2014 : ''
Les Gazelles
''Gazelles'' (french: Les gazelles) is a 2014 French comedy film directed by Mona Achache.
Plot
Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. ...
'' (Director :
Mona Achache
Mona Achache (born 18 March 1981) is a French-Moroccan film director, actress and screenwriter.
Career
Following a literary and theatrical education Mona Achache becomes an assistant director followed by screenwriting for fictional and documen ...
)
* 2017 : ''
Chacun sa vie et son intime conviction
''Everyone's Life'' (''Chacun sa vie et son intime conviction'') is a 2017 French comedy film written and directed by Claude Lelouch.
Synopsis
Twelve tales about intimate convictions leading to a thirteenth.
Casting
The film reunites severa ...
'' (Director :
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained criti ...
)
References
External links
*
"Samuel Benechetrit", ''The Daily Beast''
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1973 births
Living people
People from Champigny-sur-Marne
French film directors
French male film actors
21st-century French Sephardi Jews
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
21st-century French male actors