Manu Bonmariage

Manu Bonmariage was born near Liege Chevron March 29, 1941, a peasant mother and a father ranger. After studying communication studies at IHECS in Brussels, he first worked as a cameraman in film, then as a cameraman see RTBF, where he soon became director. Thus begins his documentary odyssey.

Originally the striptease show, for which he directed nearly 50 films, and contributes to (re) define a vision of truth before the camera, it also works for the issuance Planet of People, which leads around the world, and multiplies its horizons. Manu Bonmariage films closer to the men of their day, their small and their great battles. Alongside his career in television, he directed documentary films, screened around the world and regularly acclaimed festivals, like Du Butter Spreads In The (1980), following the restructuring process of a tool company Walloon mechanical; Police Hello (1987) up portrait of men in social work led by the Charleroi police; Les Amants D'assise (1992), accompanying the moods of two lovers united by crime; The Will Of God (1993), a community Boers in South Africa post-apartheid; And Baria The Big Wedding (2001), which recounts the forced marriage of a teenage girl from Marseille Comorian origin; Thus be it (2008) on the pastoral life of Father John, who eventually married his assistant cure; or more recently, The Lover Earth, the last love letter peasants deep Ardennes.

It is precisely with this film that Manu Bonmariage reviewing Philippe, a distant cousin, who then told her about her disease, and asks her to accompany him, with his camera, his path towards death. Its proximity and kindness, cinema Manu Bonmariage shells the men and women portraits, painting a portrait of depressed world of the past thirty years.