José Bénazéraf

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José Bénazéraf
José Bénazéraf
Born(1922-01-08)8 January 1922
Casablanca, French Morocco[1]
Died1 December 2012(2012-12-01) (aged 90)
Chiclana de la Frontera, Spain[1]
NationalityFrench
OccupationDirector
Years active1958 – 1999
Notable workFrustration, Trip to Perversion, I am a Nymphomaniac[2]
Spouse
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(m. 1961; died 2012)​
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Children2

José Bénazéraf (8 January 1922 – 1 December 2012) was a French filmmaker and producer who specialised in erotic films.[4][1]

Life and career[edit]

Bénazéraf was born in Casablanca, French Morocco on 8 January 1922.[1] 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.[1] 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[edit]

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.[5][6]

Bénazéraf also said that he attempted "to poeticise eroticism" (French: poétiser l'érotisme), whereas many at that time tended to accentuate pornography.[6] He found pornographic films "horribly sad" (French: "horriblement triste") and called them "anti-eroticism" (French: "anti-érotisme").[7] 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.[7]

Filmography[edit]

As director
As actor

Bibliography[edit]

  • (Anonymous) (1973). "Bénazéraf nous parle". Pan (in French) (8): 72–78.
  • Lentz, Harris M. III (2013). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2012. McFarland. p. 26. ISBN 9780786470631. Retrieved 22 March 2019.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m 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. ^ a b (Anonymous) 1973, p. 74.
  7. ^ a b (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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External links[edit]

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