Director Jacques Rozier, who was regarded as the last surviving member of the French New Wave, has died at the age of 96
, Francois Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Claude Chabrol or Eric Rohmer, but his work had its place in the French New Wave and pushed boundaries in ways that laid a path for filmmakers today.
After studying at the early French cinema school IDHEC, Rozier cut his directing teeth as a TV assistant, while making his own shorts includingThe latter work played at a short film festival in the city of Tours, where it caught the attention of then-film critic Godard, who highlighted it as one of the stand-out works of the edition alongside shorts by Varda and Demy.premiered in the inaugural edition of Cannes Critics’ Week in 1962 alongside films such as U.S.
Deciding to make the most of his last days of freedom, he quits his job and heads to Corsica with two inseparable young female friends he recently met in Paris. Featuring a young amateur cast scouted on the streets of Paris and characterized by an Italian neo-realist aesthetic, the film authentically captured the mood among French youth at the time., an observational work following three young women on holiday in Brittany.
Rozier only made five features across his career but also kept busy with shorts, music videos and TV series.exploring Brigitte Bardot’s relationship with the photographers trying to capture her every move during her time on the Italian island of Capri for the shoot of Godard’s classicIt was one of the first works to explore the rise of celebrity culture and the loss of privacy that came with international stardom.
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