Director Jean-Jacques Beineix died at the age of 75 on Thursday January 13 at his Parisian home, following a long illness. His funeral was organized a week later, in the Saint Roch church in Paris, in the presence of several personalities.
Appointment was therefore given in the morning, in the 1st arrondissement of the capital, for a farewell ceremony to Jean-Jacques Beineix. It was obviously necessary to count on the actress Béatrice Dalle, who made her appearance in the company of her comrade Jean-Hugues Anglade. Both acted in the film 37.2° in the morning, released in 1986 and which had then attracted 3.6 million spectators in theaters. A film that has become cult which will also be rebroadcast for the occasion on Saturday January 22 on Arte. Upset by this disappearance, the actress had paid tribute to him online. “Zorg and Betty are orphans“, she reacted on Instagram, remembering the shooting as one “of the most beautiful pages of my life“.
Among those who came to say their farewells, it was also necessary to count on the presence of Dominique Besnehard, Vladimir Cosma, Patrick Chesnais or even Gérard Krawczyk, Jean-Pierre Lavoignat, Claudie Ossard…
Jean-Jacques Beineix had first started studying medicine before preparing for the prestigious Idhec film school (now Femis), which just failed. His first projects then lead him to advertising. In particular, he will produce the multi-broadcast fight against AIDS spot It won’t pass by me. After several projects, he decides to leave the industry. After 37°2 in the morning will follow several films, all failures, including Roselyne and the lions and IP5 – The island of pachyderms. In 2001, after nine years of absence, he returned with Deadly Transfer, a complete critical and commercial failure underlines AFP. This will be the last of his six feature films, followed by television documentaries (The children of Romania, Place Clichy without complexes…), under the banner of his production company, Cargos Films.