Bruno Dumont (born 14 March 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter. To date, he has directed seven feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité (1999) and Flandres (2006). Dumont's Hadewijch won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for... Read full biography of Bruno Dumont →
There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.
The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference... →
Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They... →
I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption... →
When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a... →
Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator... →
Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's... →
An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
Bruno Dumont (born 14 March 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter. To date, he has directed seven feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité (1999) and Flandres (2006). Dumont's Hadewijch won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for...