death of director Jean-Jacques Beineix

Jean-Jacques Beineix died on Thursday January 13 in the evening. He was 75 years old. He will forever remain the filmmaker who made a perfect stranger, Béatrice Dalle, a movie star. Adapted from a novel by Philippe Djian, 37.2 Morning will be one of the greatest successes of French cinema. In 1980, Jean-Jacques Beineix’s first film with Richard Bohringer, Diva, had already caused a sensation. Beinex wanted to make a blue film, like the first Picassos.

He won four Caesars, but some fierce critics denounce a shoddy aestheticism. In 1983, The Moon in the Gutter, with Gérard Depardieu will even be whistled in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes). The Beinex fashion has passed, the director will never recover from this failure. Roselyne and the lions and even IP5: the island of pachyderms, Yves Montand’s latest film, will not find their audience.