Jean-Jacques Beineix was a French film director, writer, dialogue writer, screenwriter, film producer, and stage director. He was born on October 8, 1946, in Paris and died on January 13, 2022, in the same city.
With only six films to his credit, he is one of the pillars of French cinema. In 1982... More
Jean-Jacques Beineix was a French film director, writer, dialogue writer, screenwriter, film producer, and stage director. He was born on October 8, 1946, in Paris and died on January 13, 2022, in the same city.
With only six films to his credit, he is one of the pillars of French cinema. In 1982, he won the César Award for Best First Feature Film for Diva and achieved his greatest public success in 1986 with 37°2 le matin, adapted from the novel by Philippe Djian. Since the 1990s, he has primarily directed and produced documentaries for television and film.
French director Jean-Jacques Beineix is best-known for making two of the most provocative films of the 1980s; Diva (1982) and 37.2 le matin (Betty Blue, 1986). Dark, haunting, and filled with substantial helpings of violence and/or sex, both films were great successes in France, winning a number of awards and a degree of cinematic immortality for their director. The director's screen work during the 1990s was sporadic, and he concentrated much of his energy on such offscreen projects as his presidency of the ARP (an association for writers, directors, and producers) and his efforts to protect European film from North American cultural hegemony. He breathed his last on Januray 14, 2022.
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