The French director Jacques Rozier, who was part of the French ‘Nouvelle Vague’, died this Friday at the age of 96, the newspaper Le Monde reported this Sunday.
Jacques Rozier, to whom the IndieLisboa festival and the Cinematheque dedicated a retrospective in 2018, made film and television, leaving short films and only six feature films, including ‘Adieu Philippine’ (1962).
During the retrospective in Lisbon, the Portuguese Cinematheque recalled the “legendary reputation” of Jacques Rozier, “of productions that are difficult to conclude, spaced out over time, concomitantly subject to diffusion difficulties, obstacles imposed by lack of distribution or by late distribution and not infrequently too discreet of the movies”.
Jacques Rozier, born in Paris in 1926 and who entered cinema influenced by Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo, was one of the last names associated with the French ‘Nouvelle Vague’ and possibly the least publicized.
Among the films he made, and none of which were released commercially in Portugal, are “Rentrée des Classes” (1955), “Les shipwrecked de l’île de la tortue” (1976) and “Maine Océan” (1985). .
Emphasis on the latter, “with a refined musical sense”, as the Cinematheque describes it, and which was produced by Paulo Branco, with photography direction by Acácio de Almeida.
Source: TSF