Directing
Jean-Jacques Beineix
FR, EN, DE cinema · 30 credits
Born
8 October 1946
Died
13 January 2022 (aged 75)
Birthplace
Paris, France
Also known as Жан-Жак Бенекс
French director Jean-Jacques Beineix is best-known for making two of the most provocative films of the 1980s; Diva (1982) and 37.2 le matin (Betty Blue, 1986). Dark, haunting, and filled with substantial helpings of violence and/or sex, both films were great successes in France, winning a number of awards and a degree of cinematic immortality for their director. The director's screen work during the 1990s was sporadic, and he concentrated much of his energy on such offscreen projects as his presidency of the ARP (an association for writers, directors, and producers) and his efforts to protect European film from North American cultural hegemony. He breathed his last on Januray 14, 2022.
Known for
Filmography
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
as Self (archive) - filmmaker
The Clown
as Self
Les Gaulois au-delà du mythe
Producer, Director
Minus
Executive Producer
Loft Paradoxe
Director
Mortal Transfer
Director, Screenplay
Locked-In Syndrome
Director, Producer
Place Clichy sans complexe
Director, Producer
Otaku - Children of the Virtual Empire
Director, Producer
IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
Director, Writer, Producer
Roselyne and the Lions
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Betty Blue
Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Moon in the Gutter
Director, Screenplay
Diva
Director, Screenplay
French Postcards
First Assistant Director
Mr. Michel's Dog
Director, Writer
The Wing or the Thigh?
First Assistant Director
The Wild Goose Chase
Assistant Director
By the Blood of Others
Assistant Director
Défense de savoir
Second Assistant Director
A Full Day's Work
First Assistant Director
And Hope to Die
Second Assistant Director