Person
Robert Benayoun
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Dec 12, 1926
- Died
- Oct 20, 1996
- From
- Port-Lyautey, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Kenitra, Morocco]
Robert Benayoun (12 December 1926 in Kenitra, Morocco – 20 October 1996, Paris) was a French film critic and author, and one-time member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival of 1980. He wrote books on Tex Avery, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, and Alain Resnais. He wrote screenplays for and directed three films. Benayoun was one of comedian Jerry Lewis's greatest supporters and directed a film about him called Bonjour Mr. Lewis. He also directed the 1975 film Serious as Pleasure. Source: Article "Robert Benayoun" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Images
Credits
Erotissimo
Serious as Pleasure
Film '72
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
Apostrophes
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
S.W.B.
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
Ciné regards
Paris Does Not Exist
Jerry Lewis - 2ème partie
Bonjour Mr Lewis