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Director Jean-Jacques Beineix died at the age of 75, Thursday January 13, following a long illness. He had left his mark on French cinema with films like “37.2 Le matin”, “Diva” and even “La Lune dans le gaver”.
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 at Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes). The fashion Beinex passed, the director will never recover from this failure. Roselyn and the lions and even IP5: pachyderm island, Yves Montand’s latest film, will not find their audience. After 2001, Jean-Jacques Beineix had turned to other passions: painting, and documentaries. Béatrice Dalle, her Betty of 37.2, says to herself the day after her death orphan. “One of the most beautiful pages of my life has just turned. I love you”, she shared on social media.