Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista is a writer and scenario writer French born with Choisy-the-King (94) on September 1st 1961.

Biography

Resulting from a family of Italian emigrants installed with Vitry-sur-Seine, the young person Tonino Benacquista reads little, and spends most clearly his spare time in front of series Incorruptible TV as the (it will largely refer there in Malavita ).

After having stopped its studies of literature and cinema, it connects several odd jobs of which it is useful like source of inspiration for its first novels, resolutely black: guide of night to the Sleeping cars ( Maldonne of the sleepings , 1989), hooker of fabrics in a contemporary art gallery ( Three red squares on black bottom , 1990) or parasite society man ( Bites of the paddle , 1992).

But it is thanks to Commédia of the failures published in 1991, and which raid three Literary prizes the same year, which Benacquista is more largely made know of the general public. Options are then taken on the rights of its novels. The first adaptation of one of its books sees the day in 1994 with Maldonne of the sleepings adapted for the TV and renamed Couchettes express train with Jacques Gamblin in the main role.

He forsakes the Noir kind temporarily in 1997 by publishing Saga , a novel putting in scene 4 scenario writers charged to write a cheap sitcom intended to fill the quotas of French creation of a chain of TV. Thanks to this book, Benacquista enters the closed club of the author to success.

Benefitting from its new notoriety, Benacquista diversifies and multiplies the projects: a data base with Jacques Ferrandez ( Outremangeur , adapted to the cinema in 2002), of the scenarios for the TV (an episode of Power 4 out of France 3), a play ( the Contract )…

In parallel, Benacquista makes its entry in the cinema world. Nicole Garcia calls it during the production of Place Vendôme in 1998 for which it will be consulting, then is with the turn of Claude Berri to call upon its services Co-to write the Rout in 1999. For the Heart with the work of Laurent Dussaux left in 2000, Benacquista only attacks the scenario which tells the history of actors, of producers and technicians of films X which decide to join to make a film general public. It Co-sign the same year the scenario of the telefilm the Subterfuges adapted novel of Francoise Sagan, and even a small role is due to it.

The dedication arrives in 2001 with the adaptation on big screen of the Morsures of the paddle realized by Antoine de Caunes in 2001. The same year, it Co-writing with Jacques Audiard the scenario of On my lips , César of the best scenario a few months later.

In 2001, Benacquista publishes Quelqu'un of other , the history of two thirty year lost which, following a bet, are given 3 years to change life and to become that which they always dreamed to be. New critical and public success. Left the same year All with the ego , a collection of news, will know the same destiny. The news which opens the book, the Block box , is adapted to the cinema in 2004 by Richard Berry.

Its last book in date, Malavita left in 2004, is the occasion of a return to the Noir kind, not without humor. The novel tells the adventures of a New Yorkean family of gangster forced to settle in Normandy following repented the father whose head is put at price. The " Malavita" one of the names is given to the Mafia in Italy.

The same year, it Co-sign the scenario of to beat my heart stopped of his friend Jacques Audiard. Inspired of Mélodie for a killer ( Fingers ) of James Toback (it is not strictly speaking a " remake"), the film gains many César in 2006, of which that of the better film and that of the better adaptation.

Work

; Novels
  • Pin like a pinup in a wall cupboard of G.I. , Black River, 1985
  • Maldonne of the sleepings , Gallimard, 1989
  • Three red squares on black bottom , Gallimard, 1990
  • Commedia of the failures , Gallimard, 1991
  • Bites of the paddle , Shores, 1992
  • the Crushing machine the little girls , collection of news, Shores, 1999
  • Saga , Gallimard, 1997
  • Outremangeur , data base, Gallimard/Futuropolis, 2000
  • Someone else , 2001
  • All with the ego , collection of news, Gallimard, 2001, renamed the block box and other news at the time of its publication in Folio
  • Malavita , Gallimard, 2004
  • God do not have answer to all (but It is well surrounded) , data base, Dargaud, 2007, with Nicolas Barral

; Scenarios

; Play

  • the Contract , psychoanalytical western in two acts and an epilog, Gallimard

; Novels for children

  • Nothing is impossible , collection Black Mouse (Syros)
  • Victor Pigeon , collection Black Mouse (Syros)

; Appearances as an actor

Rewards

External bond

  • Discussion with Tonino Benacquista of September 29th, 2005 by Pierre-Benoist Varoclier.

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