Pascal Bonitzer is a French film director, screenwriter and writer. Pascal Bonitzer holds a master’s degree in philosophy and began his career as a film critic. In 1995, he directed his first feature film, Encore, which won the Prix Jean Vigo the following year. The main character, a philosophy teacher played by Jackie Berroyer, was to have echoes in his next two films: Rien sur Robert (1999) and Petites coupures (2003). His fifth feature film, Le grand alibi (2008), is an adaptation of a detective novel by Agatha Christie. His next feature was the comedy Cherchez Hortense (2012), followed by the dramas Tout de suite maintenant (2016) and Les Envoûtés (2019).
