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Jean-Jacques Beineix is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Assistant Director French born on 8 october 1946 at Paris (France)

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Jean-Jacques Beineix
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Nationality France
Birth 8 october 1946 at Paris (France)
Death 13 january 2022 (at 75 years)

Jean-Jacques Beineix (born 8 October 1946) is a French film director and generally seen as the best example of what came to be called the cinéma du look. Critic Ginette Vincendeau defined the films made by Beineix and others as "youth-oriented films with high production values...The look of the cinéma du look refers to the films' high investment in non-naturalistic, self-conscious aesthetics, notably intense colours and lighting effects. Their spectacular (studio based) and technically brilliant mise-en-scène is usually put to the service of romantic plots." The cinéma du look included the films of Luc Besson and Léos Carax - Luc Besson, like Beineix much maligned by the critical establishment during the 1980s, while Carax was much admired. In late 2006, Beineix published a first volume of his autobiography, Les Chantiers de la gloire (in French only). The title alluded to the French title of Stanley Kubrick's film, Les Sentiers de la gloire (Paths of Glory).

Biography

In 1964, Jean-Jacques Beineix started his career as Jean Becker's assistant director on the famous French TV series, "Les saintes chéries", until the end of 1967. Then, in 1970 he worked for Claude Berri and in 1971 for Claude Zidi. In 1977, he directed his first short movie Le Chien de M. Michel which won the first prize at the Trouville Festival. In 1980, he directed his first feature film Diva which received four Césars. The film was also entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. His second feature, "Moon in the Gutter", was nominated for the Palme d'Or at 1983's Cannes Festival. That film was nominated for three Césars in 1984. It won one award - the Best Production Design category.

In 1986, Jean-Jacques Beineix directed "Betty Blue" (original title: "37°2 le matin"), in which Béatrice Dalle and Jean-Hugues Anglade appeared. In 1987, that film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and in the same category at the same year’s British Academy Film Awards and Golden Globes. It won the 1986 Montréal World Film Festival’s Grand Prix des Amériques and Most Popular Film awards and, in 1987, the Boston Society of Film Critics award for best foreign language film and one – Best Poster - of the nine Césars for which it was nominated. He directed “Roselyne et les lions” in 1989, "IP5: L'île aux pachydermes" in 1992 and “Mortel Transfert” in 2001. The 1992 Seattle International Film Festival awarded Beineix its Golden Space Needle Award for Best Director on the strength of “Betty Blue” and "IP5: L'île aux pachydermes".



Jean-Jacques Beineix created his own production company in 1984, Cargo Films, to keep artistic independence. Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) was his first film produced by Cargo Films. Jean-Jacques Beineix is executive producer of all films produced by Cargo Films.
The company produces feature films and documentaries on a wide variety of themes from science to art, to women’s rights to social problems. Several films have been made in partnership with national scientific organizations such as CNES and CNRS.

In 2008, Jean-Jacques Beineix directed a corporate film of CNRS, 2 infinities (L2i). This film was shown in October 2008's New York Imagine science film festival.

Best films

The Wing or the Thigh? (1976)
(Director)
Betty Blue (1986)
(Director)
Diva (1981)
(Director)
And Hope to Die (1972)
(Second Assistant Director)
The Wild Goose Chase (1975)
(Assistant Director)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jean-Jacques Beineix (16 films)

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Director

Mortal Transfer, 2h2
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Psychologie, Psychanalyse
Actors Jean-Hugues Anglade, Hélène de Fougerolles, Miki Manojlović, Valentina Sauca, Robert Hirsch, Catherine Mouchet
Rating59% 2.99622.99622.99622.99622.9962
Michel Durand is a psychoanalyst who is in the habit of dropping off to sleep while listening to his patients. At the end of one session Madame Kubler does not move. What has happened? Who killed the wife of Max Kubler, the crooked property developer? Why are Michel Durand's arms hurting so much? Can you murder someone while asleep? Michel Durand needs to do something in any case, because Police Commissioner Chapireau is investigating and Max Kubler is going crazy looking for his wife.
Otaku
Otaku (1994)
, 2h48
Directed by Jackie Bastide, Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Documentary, Historical
Actors Sion Sono
Rating66% 3.323373.323373.323373.323373.32337
Le mot "Otaku" désignant des collectionneurs ou des personnes passionnés, est apparu dans les années 1980 au Japon.
IP5: The Island of Pachyderms, 1h59
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Peinture
Actors Yves Montand, Olivier Martinez, Géraldine Pailhas, Colette Renard, Sotigui Kouyate, Samir Guesmi
Rating62% 3.148453.148453.148453.148453.14845
À la suite d'un coma éthylique qu'a eu le père de Jockey, son meilleur ami Tony fait la rencontre d'une jeune infirmière (Gloria) dont il tombe amoureux. Forcé par une bande de skinhead de transporter des nains de jardin à Grenoble les deux jeunes partent à travers la France dans un voyage aussi improvisé que hors la loi. En chemin ils font la connaissance, lors du vol d'une voiture, d'un vieil homme qui parcourt la France avec un sac à dos et une carte où tous les lacs sont entourés d'une marque rouge. Dans son sac à dos, un vieux Luger dans le chargeur duquel trois balles attendent.
Roselyne and the Lions
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Circus films, La provence
Actors Isabelle Pasco, Gérard Sandoz, Guillaume Briat, Gabriel Monnet, Günter Meisner, Philippe Clévenot
Rating60% 3.0463153.0463153.0463153.0463153.046315
Thierry fait des petits boulots dans un zoo en échange de leçons que lui donne le dresseur de lions Frazier. Il rencontre Roselyne, et ils partent ensemble pour trouver du travail. Ils finissent par être engagés dans un cirque de Munich, elle comme dresseuse et lui comme entraîneur.
Betty Blue
Betty Blue (1986)
, 2h1
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Vincent Lindon, Gérard Darmon, Dominique Pinon, Claude Aufaure
Rating72% 3.648683.648683.648683.648683.64868
Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) is a 34-year-old failed writer, now making a living as a handyman for a community of beach houses at Gruissan. He meets Betty (Béatrice Dalle), a volatile and impulsive young woman, and the two begin a passionate affair, living in his shack on the beach. After a row with him, she finds the manuscript of a novel he once wrote and decides he is a genius. However, after another argument with his boss, she empties the shack and burns it down. The two decamp to the outskirts of Paris, where her friend Lisa (Consuelo de Haviland) has a small hotel. There they find work in the pizzeria of Lisa's friend Eddy (Gérard Darmon), but a fight erupts in which Betty stabs a customer with a fork. Back at the hotel, she laboriously types out Zorg's novel and submits it to various publishers. Though Zorg hides the rejection letters she finds one and, going to the publisher's house, slashes his face. Zorg induces him to drop charges.
The Moon in the Gutter, 2h17
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes La provence
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Dominique Pinon, Gabriel Monnet, Milena Vukotic
Rating59% 2.9509852.9509852.9509852.9509852.950985
Two women: Loretta (Nastassja Kinski), a wealthy amateur photographer who prowls the docks in her early '60s Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder looking for handsome men, and Bella (Victoria Abril), a poor but beautiful woman who is probably a prostitute, share affections for a dock worker named Gerard (played by Gérard Depardieu). He is obsessed by the memory of his sister, who was raped and then committed suicide in a back alley, which he visits every night. No one knows who committed the rape, and he has sworn to avenge the crime, if he can only figure out who the perpetrator was.
Diva
Diva (1981)
, 1h57
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Frédéric Andrei, Richard Bohringer, Roland Bertin, Gérard Darmon, Jacques Fabbri, Dominique Pinon
Rating71% 3.59553.59553.59553.59553.5955
Young postman Jules is obsessed with Cynthia Hawkins, a beautiful and celebrated opera singer who has never had a performance of hers recorded. He attends her performance, secretly and illegally records it. He also steals the gown she wore from her dressing room.
The Wing or the Thigh?, 1h50
Directed by Claude Zidi, Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Circus films, Cooking films
Actors Louis de Funès, Coluche, Julien Guiomar, Claude Gensac, Ann Zacharias, Martin Lamotte
Rating72% 3.60013.60013.60013.60013.6001
Charles Duchemin (Louis de Funès) is the editor of an internationally known restaurant guide. After being appointed to the Académie française, Duchemin decides to retire as a restaurant critic and trains his son Gérard (Coluche) to continue the family business. However, Gérard Duchemin is more interested in his true passion—the circus—than high cuisine. Soon, however, Charles' plans to retire are complicated by the arrival of Jacques Tricatel (Julien Guiomar), the owner of a company of mass-produced food. Fearing for the future of high cuisine, Charles and his son strive to ruin Tricatel's company in any way they can. This movie is an allegory of the antagonism between USA culture and French culture as it was seen by French people in the 70s.
Male of the Century
Directed by Claude Berri, Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Juliet Berto, Claude Berri, Hubert Deschamps, Roland Dubillard, Marco Perrin, Roger Riffard
Rating47% 2.3628552.3628552.3628552.3628552.362855
Une femme est prise en otage lors de l'attaque d'une banque. Son mari, très jaloux, se propose de prendre sa place mais le bandit refuse. Alors le mari imagine sa femme le tromper avec cet homme. La police force le voleur à sortir et la femme est libérée. Mais le mari reste soupçonneux...
The Day the Clown Cried
Directed by Jerry Lewis, Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Circus films, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Jerry Lewis, Harriet Andersson, Anton Diffring, Jonas Bergström, Ulf Palme, Pierre Étaix

Lewis plays a washed-up German circus clown named Helmut Doork during the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust. Although he was once a famous performer who toured America and Europe with the Ringling Brothers, Doork is now past his prime and receives little respect. After Doork causes an accident during a show, the head clown convinces the circus owner to demote Doork. Upon returning home, Doork confides his problems in his wife Ada, and she encourages him to stand up for himself. Helmut overhears the circus owner agreeing to fire him after the head clown issues an ultimatum. Helmut is distraught. He is arrested later by the Gestapo for ranting about Germany and drunkenly mocking Adolf Hitler in a bar. Following an interrogation at the Gestapo headquarters, he is imprisoned in a Nazi camp for political prisoners. For the next three to four years, he remains there while hoping for a trial and a chance to plead his case.

Scriptwriter

Mortal Transfer, 2h2
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Psychologie, Psychanalyse
Actors Jean-Hugues Anglade, Hélène de Fougerolles, Miki Manojlović, Valentina Sauca, Robert Hirsch, Catherine Mouchet
Rating59% 2.99622.99622.99622.99622.9962
Michel Durand is a psychoanalyst who is in the habit of dropping off to sleep while listening to his patients. At the end of one session Madame Kubler does not move. What has happened? Who killed the wife of Max Kubler, the crooked property developer? Why are Michel Durand's arms hurting so much? Can you murder someone while asleep? Michel Durand needs to do something in any case, because Police Commissioner Chapireau is investigating and Max Kubler is going crazy looking for his wife.
IP5: The Island of Pachyderms, 1h59
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Peinture
Actors Yves Montand, Olivier Martinez, Géraldine Pailhas, Colette Renard, Sotigui Kouyate, Samir Guesmi
Rating62% 3.148453.148453.148453.148453.14845
À la suite d'un coma éthylique qu'a eu le père de Jockey, son meilleur ami Tony fait la rencontre d'une jeune infirmière (Gloria) dont il tombe amoureux. Forcé par une bande de skinhead de transporter des nains de jardin à Grenoble les deux jeunes partent à travers la France dans un voyage aussi improvisé que hors la loi. En chemin ils font la connaissance, lors du vol d'une voiture, d'un vieil homme qui parcourt la France avec un sac à dos et une carte où tous les lacs sont entourés d'une marque rouge. Dans son sac à dos, un vieux Luger dans le chargeur duquel trois balles attendent.
Roselyne and the Lions
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Circus films, La provence
Actors Isabelle Pasco, Gérard Sandoz, Guillaume Briat, Gabriel Monnet, Günter Meisner, Philippe Clévenot
Roles Ecrivain du scénario
Rating60% 3.0463153.0463153.0463153.0463153.046315
Thierry fait des petits boulots dans un zoo en échange de leçons que lui donne le dresseur de lions Frazier. Il rencontre Roselyne, et ils partent ensemble pour trouver du travail. Ils finissent par être engagés dans un cirque de Munich, elle comme dresseuse et lui comme entraîneur.
Betty Blue
Betty Blue (1986)
, 2h1
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Vincent Lindon, Gérard Darmon, Dominique Pinon, Claude Aufaure
Rating72% 3.648683.648683.648683.648683.64868
Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) is a 34-year-old failed writer, now making a living as a handyman for a community of beach houses at Gruissan. He meets Betty (Béatrice Dalle), a volatile and impulsive young woman, and the two begin a passionate affair, living in his shack on the beach. After a row with him, she finds the manuscript of a novel he once wrote and decides he is a genius. However, after another argument with his boss, she empties the shack and burns it down. The two decamp to the outskirts of Paris, where her friend Lisa (Consuelo de Haviland) has a small hotel. There they find work in the pizzeria of Lisa's friend Eddy (Gérard Darmon), but a fight erupts in which Betty stabs a customer with a fork. Back at the hotel, she laboriously types out Zorg's novel and submits it to various publishers. Though Zorg hides the rejection letters she finds one and, going to the publisher's house, slashes his face. Zorg induces him to drop charges.
The Moon in the Gutter, 2h17
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes La provence
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Dominique Pinon, Gabriel Monnet, Milena Vukotic
Rating59% 2.9509852.9509852.9509852.9509852.950985
Two women: Loretta (Nastassja Kinski), a wealthy amateur photographer who prowls the docks in her early '60s Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder looking for handsome men, and Bella (Victoria Abril), a poor but beautiful woman who is probably a prostitute, share affections for a dock worker named Gerard (played by Gérard Depardieu). He is obsessed by the memory of his sister, who was raped and then committed suicide in a back alley, which he visits every night. No one knows who committed the rape, and he has sworn to avenge the crime, if he can only figure out who the perpetrator was.