PARIS, Jan 16 — Oscar-nominated film director Jean-Jacques Beineix, who has died aged 75, survived a panning by French critics to makeBeineix died this week after a long illness at his home in Paris, his family confirmed to AFP.
The filmmaker — who tended to take criticism to heart — never forgot the drubbing he took for his first filmDecades later Beineix — a pioneer of the French “cinema du look” that was later embraced by Luc Besson — was still smarting from being dismissed for his “ad-man’s aesthetic” of favouring style over story.
“No one is a prophet in their own land,” said Beineix, who trained as a doctor before making his name with a striking television public health warning about AIDS., starring Gerard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski, also got a critical kicking, with Beineix saying he “never got over” being booed at its premiere at the Cannes film festival in 1983.Hurt‘s deluge of Oscar, Golden Globe and Bafta nominations, French critics called it pretentious and boring.
Still, the poster featuring actress Beatrice Dalle went on to adorn millions of bedrooms across the world. “I love you,” Dalle wrote in a message to Beineix on her Instagram page on Friday, adding that the filming had been “one of the most beautiful pages of my life”. “It can change your life forever — in good ways and in a lot of bad,” he said.“I decided to walk across the minefield... to have dinner with the devil,” he later said.
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