Army of Shadows - Francoise Bonnot: Editing with Melville

Army Of Shadows - DVD Bonus material.

Francoise Bonnot - In this interview, recorded for Criterion in 2006, Oscar-winning editor Francoise Bonnot discusses Jean-Pierre Melville's legacy and her family's relationship with the director.

Françoise Bonnot (17 August 1939 – 9 June 2018) was a French film editor with more than 40 feature film credits. Bonnot was the daughter of Monique Bonnot, a film editor noted for several films directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. In her first film credit, Françoise Bonnot was the assistant to her mother on Melville's 1959 film, Two Men in Manhattan (1959).

Bonnot won the Academy Award for Film Editing for Z (1969), and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Missing (1982). She was nominated three times for the César Award for Best Editing (for The Simple Past (1977), Hannah K. (1983) and Place Vendôme (1998)). She had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.