Jean-Jacques Beineix, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jean-Jacques Beineix

French film director, film producer and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1946

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Profession: screenwriter, film director, film producer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jean-Jacques Beineix ([b?n?ks]; born 8 October 1946) is a French film director and generally seen as the best example of what came to be called the cinéma du look.
Critic Ginette Vincendeau defined the films made by Beineix and others as "youth-oriented films with high production values...The look of the cinéma du look refers to the films' high investment in non-naturalistic, self-conscious aesthetics, notably intense colours and lighting effects.
Their spectacular (studio based) and technically brilliant mise-en-scène is usually put to the service of romantic plots." The cinéma du look included the films of Luc Besson and Léos Carax.
Luc Besson, like Beineix, was much maligned by the critical establishment during the 1980s, while Carax was much admired.
In late 2006, Beineix published a first volume of his autobiography, Les Chantiers de la gloire (in French only).
The title alluded to the French title of Stanley Kubrick's film, Les Sentiers de la gloire (Paths of Glory).



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Date of birth/death	18 November 1935	14 January 2018
Location of birth	Copenhagen
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