In his adolescence, Bruno Nuytten played in an amateur theatre troupe. His education is varied. He wanted to be a cartoonist and prepared for the competitive entrance examination to the
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, but he failed it. He also prepared to study at France's most prominent film school, the
Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC), but failed the entrance examination. He also considered attending the
Łódź Film School in Poland, but was deterred by their required Polish language course. He instead gained admission to the
Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion (INSAS, Belgium, 1967-1969). He left early without finishing his degree so that he could instead obtain a
BTS to be able to work in France. A few years earlier, Nuytten had remarked: “The only interesting thing that I discovered while talking with a journalist is that in fact I had put myself in scene in the inversion of powers: at the end of the film I had become Camille Claudel and Isabelle Adjani had become Rodin. And there I am more and more Camille Claudel, even if I am not still in the asylum! One never escapes the delicate, fragile, and human things one touches…” In 2015,
Caroline Champetier, also director of photography, devoted the documentary
Nuytten/Film to him. Bruno Nuytten wrote articles for the technical review
Le cinema pratique, animated conferences at the Ciné-club de Melun, and lectures at the
Université de Paris III. In Switzerland, he founded a production company for advertising films. Bruno Nuytten was the companion of Isabelle Adjani, with whom he had a son, Barnabé, in 1979. Since 1996, he has lived with the director Tatiana Vialle, with whom he has had two children, Tobias and Galathée. He is the stepfather of actor
Swann Arlaud. ==Filmography==