We owe the filmmaker the feature films “c.r.a.z.y.” and “Dallas Buyers Club”, as well as the series “Big Little Lies”.
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Quebec filmmaker who, like his contemporary and compatriot Denis Villeneuve, had found the way to Hollywood, Jean-Marc Valley, director of feature films Crazy, Dallas Buyers Club and Wild as well as Big Little Lies and Wild series, is Death suddenly in his cottage near the city of Quebec, on December 25, announced his producer, Nathan Ross. The cause of his death is not known for the moment.
Born March 9, 1963 in Montreal, Jean-Marc Vallée met with success from his beginnings. After cinema studies at the University of Quebec, its first achievements, music and short films draw attention, winning trophies at the Genie Awards ceremonies (the Canadian equivalent of Oscars) and Jutra (Quebec version of the previous, renamed since). In 1995, its first feature film, blacklist, sardonic policing film, attracts not only the votes of professionals (Genie du Best Film, a multitude of rewards in Quebec) but also the public. His next film, Los Locos, is a Western, written and interpreted by the author and african american actor Mario Van Peebles.
Triumph of “Dallas Buyers Club”
For a decade, Jean-Marc Vallée works in the writing and production of Crazy, a story of autobiographical inspiration (autobiography being here as well that of the director and that of his coscenarist, François Boulay), who depicts the torments of a gay teen muffled by an invasive father in Quebec from the 1970s. Crazy It remains to this day one of the biggest success of his country. In 2005, year of his exit, he ranks third at the box office behind the revenge of the Sith and Harry Potter and the fire cut.
Lived by the British producer Graham King, then Collaborator of Martin Scorsese, the filmmaker is offered Victoria’s scenario: the young years of a queen, including Emily Blunt holds the title role. The film wins the Oscar of the best costumes.
The director then tries an incursion into France with Flora Coffee (2011), who comes from Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Montreal. Despite the presence of Vanessa Paradis in Generic, this family drama does not seduce the French public and its success remains purely Quebec. This disappointment is erased two years later by the Triumph of Dallas Buyers Club, which offers Matthew McConaughey the role of Ron Woodroff who, in the 1980s, organized in the Texane metropolis one of the first networks of supply of antiretroviral drugs For HIV-positive. The movie is worth an Oscar at McConaughey and wins two more.
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