Mathilde Bonnefoy

Mathilde Bonnefoy (born March 11, 1972 in Paris) is a film editor and director who was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of the film Run Lola Run (1998). Bonnefoy is the daughter of the French poet Yves Bonnefoy and Lucy Vinces, an American; she has dual citizenship in France and the United States. From 1990-91 she studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, but she abandoned her studies to move to Berlin. By 1995 she was working as an assistant editor, and in 1997 she was credited as the "Avid assistant" for the German film Das Leben ist eine Baustelle (directed by Wolfgang Becker). Das Leben ist eine Baustelle was one of the first films produced by the film company X Filme GmbH, which was created by Becker and Tom Tykwer (among...