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José Bénazéraf
José Bénazéraf
Born(1922-01-08)8 January 1922
Casablanca, French Morocco
Died1 December 2012(2012-12-01) (aged 90)
Chiclana de la Frontera, Spain
NationalityFrench
OccupationDirector
Years active1958 – 1999
Notable workFrustration, Trip to Perversion, I am a Nymphomaniac
Spouse Simone D'Aillencourt ​ ​(m. 1961; died 2012)​
Children2

José Bénazéraf (8 January 1922 – 1 December 2012) was a French filmmaker and producer who specialised in erotic films.

Life and career

Bénazéraf was born in Casablanca, French Morocco on 8 January 1922. After completing his studies in political sciences, he started his film career in 1958 producing Les lavandières du Portugal, a film by Pierre Gaspard-Huit, and went on to direct and write numerous erotic films in the 1960s. He started to direct erotic feature films in 1961 with L'éternité pour nous.

At the end of the 1970s, he moved his attention to the direct-to-video market.

He died in Chiclana de la Frontera.

Views on filmmaking

In 1973, Bénazéraf stated he did not make message films, and that one of the reasons he made films was to "disturb the French" (French: "déranger les Français"), who were, he felt, not disturbed by anything, neither politically nor sexually.

Bénazéraf also said that he attempted "to poeticise eroticism" (French: poétiser l'érotisme), whereas many at that time tended to accentuate pornography. He found pornographic films "horribly sad" (French: "horriblement triste") and called them "anti-eroticism" (French: "anti-érotisme"). According to Bénazéraf, eroticism was something "which creates a climate, which creates, which awakes, which sublimates desire" (French: "qui crée un climat, qui crée, qui suscite, qui sublimise le désir"), and the effect of pornography was the opposite.

Filmography

As director
As actor

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Lentz 2013.
  2. "jose+benazeraf" "Film". 1973. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  3. Lafitte, Jacques; Taylor, Stephen (1969). Qui est qui en France (in French). J. Lafitte. p. 230.
  4. "Bénazéraf, l'éternité pour lui | Next". Next.liberation.fr. 2012-12-05. Archived from the original on 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2012-12-09.
  5. (Anonymous) 1973, p. 76.
  6. ^ (Anonymous) 1973, p. 74.
  7. ^ (Anonymous) 1973, p. 78.
  8. "José Bénazéraf". IMDb.
  9. "JOSE BENAZERAF: Film / Movie Information". Citwf.com. Retrieved 2012-12-09.
  10. "Jose Benazeraf Filmography". Fandango.com. Retrieved 2012-12-09.

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