2023-06-04 08:27:03
In 2019, Jean-Luc Godard thus saluted the mark left by Jacques Rozier in French cinema: “When Agnès Varda died, I thought: the real New Wave, there are only two of us left. Me and […] Jacques Rozier». Godard died last fall, Jacques Rozier on Friday, the New Wave died out.
The director ofFarewell Filipina or Maine Oceandied at the age of 96, announced his collaborator to AFP on Saturday evening June 3, confirming information from the Monde. His death occurred at the hospital on the night of Thursday to Friday, said Michèle Berson, who had worked with him for fifteen years.
«It is often said of Jacques Rozier that he is the most gifted of French filmmakers. This proposal can be defended, with good reason or rather with that little touch of quiet madness that makes a tracking shot ofFarewell Filipinawith a laugh On the side of Oroueta wave of Maine Oceanmovie treasures»wrote Liberation in 2001.
«Jacques Rozier just left us. He was freedom itself, and we will miss him terribly.” reacted the Cinémathèque française, which paid tribute to him on Twitter. “Of New Wave filmmakers, Rozier is the one who wanders. The one who likes everything to go wrong, to better feed his very particular sense of dramaturgy […].»
1986 Jean Vigo Prize for Maine OceanRené Clair Prize 1997 for all of his work, Carrosse d’or 2002 at Cannes, Jacques Rozier directed Farewell Filipina (1962), Time.news of youth against the backdrop of the war in Algeria, On the side of Orouet (1973) et The Castaways of Turtle Island (1976). Four films in more than half a century…
He shot two more, Fifi martingale (2001), never released theatrically, and the Parisian parrot (2007), which remained unfinished. He has also shot about twenty short films, often noticed, and worked for television.
“He was an independent filmmaker, free“, underlined Michèle Berson, he worked “without preconceived scenario in advance” and had an ability torestore the present”.
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