Jean-Jacques Beineix died on January 13 at the age of 75. On January 18, the director’s family shared an announcement on social media, revealing the date and place of his funeral.
The world of cinema mourns the director Jean Jacques Beineix. The filmmaker died on Thursday January 13 at the age of 75. He succumbed to a long illness, as announced by his brother Jean-Claude to AFP. Famous film director 37°2 in the morning, Jean-Jacques Beineix unveiled Béatrice Dalle in the role of Betty. He made the movies Diva, The Moon in the Gutter, Roselyne and the Lions, IP5: The Island of Pachyderms or Deadly transfer. Jean-Jacques Beineix had also worked for Claude Zidi as first assistant director, notably on the films The shallot race, the wing or the thigh, and The Animal.
His last film was released in theaters in 2001. If he had had several projects afterwards, they were all aborted, such as the adaptation ofgoodbye up there which was directed by Albert Dupontel and released on screens in 2017. Beineix also wanted to adapt Bowler hat and leather boots, but because of a disagreement on the screenplay he was never able to materialize this project. He also made several documentaries., like The Children of Romania, Place Clichy without complex, Loft Paradoxe or The Gauls beyond the myth.
The world of cinema in mourning
The announcement of the director’s death plunged the world of cinema into mourning. Béatrice Dalle was the first to pay tribute to him. “Zorg and Betty are orphans… One of the most beautiful pages of my life has just turned… I love you“, she wrote on Instagram. “So many memories with Jean-Jacques Beineix His analysis of the arrival of the LOFT on the set of ONPP! His story of the shooting of 37.2 with my Beatrice. Farewell Jean-Jacques”, said Marc-Olivier Fogiel on Twitter.
In the columns of Figaro, Dominique Besnehard also shared his pain: “I owe him everything […] He was a being both tortured and luminous […] He was someone who valued his freedom”. As the family announced in an announcement relayed by AFP, the funeral of Jean-Jacques Beineix will take place this Thursday, January 20 at 10:30 a.m., in the Saint-Roch church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
#Movie theater#Funeral by filmmaker Jean-Jacques #BEINEIX Thursday at 10.30 a.m. in the church #SaintRoch, the Parisian parish of artists, seat of the Chaplaincy of #artists from #show pic.twitter.com/swhvlCcbE1
— Jean-Francois Guyot (@JFGuyot) January 18, 2022