José Bénazéraf

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José Bénazéraf
José Bénazéraf
Born	(1922-01-08)8 January 1922 Casablanca, French Morocco[1]
Died	1 December 2012(2012-12-01) (aged 90) Chiclana de la Frontera, Spain[1]
Nationality	French
Occupation	Director
Years active	1958 – 1999
Notable work	Frustration, Trip to Perversion, I am a Nymphomaniac[2]
Spouse(s)	Simone D'Aillencourt ​ ​ (m. 1961; died 2012)​ [3]
Children	2

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

Life and career[]

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 .

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.^[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 sublimises desire" (French: "qui crée un climat, qui crée, qui suscite, qui sublimise le désir"), and the effect of pornography was the opposite.^[7]

Filmography[]

As director

• 1960 : Mourir d'amour (Ma mort a les yeux bleus)^[1]
• 1961 : (not credited)
• 1961 : (Le Cri de la chair)^[1]
• 1962 : (La Drogue du vice) (U.S. title Night of Lust)
• 1963 : (24 heures d'un Américain à Paris)
• 1964 : Cover Girls^[1]
• 1964 : (La Nuit la plus longue)
• 1965 : ^[1]
• 1967 :
• 1967 :  [fr] (St. Pauli zwischen Nacht und Morgen)
• 1968 :  [fr] (Joe Caligula)^[1]
• 1969 :
• 1971 : (Les Dérèglements d'une jeune provinciale)
• 1973 :
• 1973 :
• 1973 : (Un homme se penche sur son destin)
• 1974 :
• 1974 : (Black Love)
• 1974 :
• 1975 : (La Soubrette)
• 1975 : (La Veuve)
• 1975 : (Les Gouines) (Victoire et Isabelle)
• 1975 :
• 1975 :
• 1976 : ()
• 1976 :
• 1976 :
• 1977 :
• 1977 : ()
• 1977 : (Vices cachés de Miss Aubépine)
• 1978 :
• 1978 :
• 1978 :
• 1978 : (Attention, je vais jouir)
• 1979 :
• 1979 :
• 1979 :
• 1980 :
• 1980 :
• 1981 :
• 1982 :
• 1983 :
• 1983 :
• 1983 :
• 1983 : (The Movie Star)
• 1983 :
• 1983 :
• 1983 :
• 1983 :
• 1983 :
• 1983 :
• 1984 :
• 1984 :
• 1984 :
• 1984 :
• 1984 :
• 1984 :
• 1985 : (La Fête à Isabelle)
• 1985 :
• 1985 :
• 1985 :
• 1985 :
• 1985 :
• 1985 :
• 1985 :
• 1985 :
• 1985 :
• 1986 :
• 1986 :
• 1986 :
• 1986 :
• 1986 :
• 1986 :
• 1986 :
• 1986 :
• 1990 : Backdoor to Paris^[1]
• 1997 : Contes de la Folie Ordinaire^[1]
• 1999 : Portrait Regards de Zarah Whites^[1]

As actor

• 1960 : À bout de souffle (not credited)
• 1971 : ou ^[8][9][10]

Bibliography[]

References[]

Further reading[]

• The book Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 (1994) by Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs dedicates a chapter to him.

External links[]

• Artist's website
• José Bénazéraf at IMDb