Jean-Jacques Beineix

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1946-10-08

Deathday 2022-01-13 (75 years old)

Place of Birth Paris, France

Also Known As Жан-Жак Бенекс

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Biography

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

Director

The Day the Clown Cried

as Assistant Director

2002
Loft Paradoxe

as Director

2001
Mortal Transfer

as Director

1997
Locked-In Syndrome

as Director

1994
Otaku

as Director

1993
1988
1986
Betty Blue

as Director

1983
1981
Diva

as Director

1979
French Postcards

as First Assistant Director

1977
Mr. Michel's Dog

as Director

1976
The Wing or the Thigh?

as First Assistant Director

1975
The Wild Goose Chase

as Assistant Director

1974
Par le sang des autres

as Assistant Director

1973
Défense de savoir

as Second Assistant Director

1973
A Full Day's Work

as First Assistant Director

1972
And Hope to Die

as Second Assistant Director

Writer

2001
Mortal Transfer

as Screenplay

1988
1986
Betty Blue

as Screenplay

1983
1981
Diva

as Screenplay

1977

Producer

2011
Minus

as Executive Producer

1997
Locked-In Syndrome

as Producer

1994
Otaku

as Producer

1988
1986
Betty Blue

as Producer