Jean-Jacques Beinix

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Jean-Jacques Beineix ( 8 October 1946 in Paris – 13 January 2022 in Paris ) was a French film director , producer and screenwriter . With his works from the 1980s, in particular Diva and Betty Blue – 37.2 degrees in the morning , he is regarded as a key representative of the cinema du look film movement .

life and work

Jean-Jacques Beineix was born in Paris on October 8, 1946. He first began studying medicine, but then turned to film art. He narrowly missed admission to the film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC).

In 1964 he began working as Jean Becker 's assistant director on the television series A French Marriage . His first feature film as an assistant director was Gérard Brach's Le bateau sur l'herbe in 1970/71 . Further assistant jobs followed for various great directors, especially for Claude Zidi . In 1977,bailey made his first short film Le chien de Monsieur Michel . It won him first prize at the Trouville Festival and was nominated for the César for Best Short Film . In 1981, Jean-Jacques Beineix made his first feature film: Diva , which received several awards at the 1982 Cesar Awards.

Beinix, who, as a pioneer of the cinéma du look film movement, significantly influenced other directors such as Luc Besson , was also very active as a commercial filmmaker, particularly at the beginning of his career, including directing a massively broadcast commercial on AIDS prevention. Eventually he turned away from the genre, later citing a desire to use his talent for a good cause; the advertising, however, is not such.

In 1987, his film Betty Blue , adapted from a novel by Philippe Djian and starring Jean-Hugues Anglade and Béatrice Dalle , was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The work was seen by 3.6 million viewers in the cinema and is considered a cult film .

1989

Despite the great success of Diva and Betty Blue , bailey did not get over the often negative reception of his works in his home country throughout his life. In France, for example, Diva was only successful after it had been showered with prizes abroad. Despite the film's numerous nominations for internationally renowned awards, French critics called Betty Blue "pretentious" and "boring". And The Moon in the Gutter , starring Gérard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski , was booed at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. In 2020,bailey stated that he was still injured and described these experiences as determining his later failure. The death of Yves Montand in 1991 immediately after the end of filming on IP5 – Insel der Pachyderm also weighed heavily on him . In the film, Montand plays an old man who dies of a heart attack near the end of the story. The real cause of Montand's death was a heart attack. Legix felt blamed by sections of the public for the death of the actor and singer, who enjoyed national icon status.

After Betty Blue , Beineix directed several other films, including Rosalyn and the Lions , with which he was unable to build on the successes he had previously achieved. The Mortal Transfer from 2001, which he shot after a nine-year break from cinema production , was a failure both with critics and at the box office, with which he said he also got heavily into debt. It was the last of his six feature films. As a result, he shot documentaries for television with his production company Cargo Films .

Legix has also been active in areas other than film. In 2004 and 2006, two volumes of a comic entitled L'Affaire du siècle appeared, to which Beineix had contributed the scenario; Draftsman was Bruno de Dieuleveult . Also in 2006, Beineix's autobiography Les chantiers de la gloire was published. In 2015 he directed the autobiographical play Kiki de Montparnasse at the theatre. In 2020 he published the novel Toboggan.

Jean-Jacques Beineix died in Paris on January 13, 2022 at the age of 75 after a long illness. On the occasion of his death, several French television channels changed their programming to broadcast his films in prime time; Arte announced that it would show Betty Blue on January 22nd and France 5 announced that it would broadcast IP5 on January 24th .

filmography

Books

  • (with Bruno de Dieuleveult) Château de vampire à vendre (=  L'affaire du siècle . Vol 1 ). Glénat, Grenoble 2004, ISBN 2-7234-4578-X (comic).
  • (with Bruno de Dieuleveult) Vampire à louer (=  L'affaire du siècle . Vol 2 ). Cargo Films / Au diable vauvert, 2006, ISBN 2-84626-100-8 (comic).
  • Les Chantiers de la Gloire . Fayard, 2006, ISBN 2-213-61248-X (Autobiography).
  • slide . Michel Lafon, 2020, ISBN 978-2-7499-3079-4 (novel).

Awards (selection)

web links

Commons : Jean-Jacques Beineix  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ a b Film director Jean-Jacques Beineix died. In: pnp.de . January 14, 2022, retrieved on January 14, 2022 (agency report dpa ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Jean-Jacques Beineix, le réalisateur de « 37°2 le matin », est mort. In: lemonde.fr . January 14, 2022, retrieved January 15, 2022 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Tormented 'Betty Blue' director Jean-Jacques Beineix dies. In: france24.com . January 14, 2022, accessed January 15, 2022 (English).
  4. ↑ Le cinéaste Jean-Jacques Beineix est mort. In: lepoint.fr . January 14, 2022, retrieved January 14, 2022 (French).
  5. ↑ Les chaînes de télé rendent homage to Jean-Jacques Beineix, décédé ce jeudi. In: 20minutes.fr . January 15, 2022, retrieved January 15, 2022 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Baixix, Jean-Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director, producer and screenwriter
BIRTH DATE October 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Paris , France