The director of cult films “37 ° 2 in the morning” and “diva”, four times rewarded with Caesars, died on January 13, at the age of 75
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Evoking the name of the filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beinex is to be immersed in the 1980s, especially in Paris, a city of which he liked to film the popular districts and the subway corridors. A city that saw it born on October 8, 1946, and die on January 13, at the age of 75. In fact, the most striking movies of the filmmaker – its first three feature films – focus in this clinking decade, which also lives “hatch” Luc Besson or, in a completely different registry, Leos Carax – other filmmaker in love with the capital.
Beinex’s career was in the image of a fireworks, flamboyant and ephemeral: there was diva (1981), first “long” which revealed Richard Bohringer and Gérard Darmon and knew a public success after having Received four awards in Caesars (1982), including that of “the first work” as it was said at the time (became the Caesar for the best first movie). The Caesarized film finally recorded more than two million entries in France.
followed a second “long”, the moon in the gutter (1983), with Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski and Victoria Abril, then a third, 37 ° 2 in the morning (1986), which became a cult movie (more than 3.6 million Spectators in theaters), Beatrice Slab making his first shattering appearance at the cinema – spotted by Dominique Besnehard – alongside Jean-Hugues anglade. The following films will be chess: Roselyne and Lions (1989), with Isabelle Pasco, IP5 – The Island of Pashdermes (1992), with Yves Montand, finally mortal transfer (2001), with Jean-Hugues anglade. A total of six feature films, and some later attempts to adapt to the screen that will not see the light of day.
Malked by the criticism
Also screenwriter, dialoguist, writer and producer, Jean-Jacques has always been mistreated by criticism, she blames him with advertising clip imaging, too licked, reverse of the new wave that liberated from the ‘Aesthetics of studios. The director of 37 ° 2, however, did not stand against “Turkish young” (Chabrol, Truffaut, Godard, Rivette, Rohmer) and told the shock that produced on him the four hundred shots (1959), François Truffaut.
Beinex set itself as an autodidact director and quoted this phrase of Abel Gance as a program: “Every image must be a sun.” From all filmmakers, Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), the author of 2001 , the odyssey of space (1968) and mechanical orange (1971), was the one who impressed him the most. Beinex also realized documentaries, played the piano – the vexations, of Erik Satie – had painting, and was one of the founding members of the directors-producer authors’ society (ARP), which he directed between 1994 and 1995.
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