Marrakech Fest: Benoit Jacquot Talks ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ Remake, Working with New Bond Girl Lea Seydoux — hollywoodreporter.com

French director Benoit Jacquot has made a career out of trying to figure out women, from 1998’s The School of Flesh to 2012’s Cesar-nominated Farewell, My Queen. “For me it’ always a woman in a strong situation which is going to change her life,” he says, part of a lifelong effort to understand women. “It’s because I’m a man I think. No man really knows women, and as far as I know it’s impossible to find out. I try to approach it as a search, like an explorer.”

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