The "cinema of the look" bereaved by the death of Jean-Jacques Beineix

Jean-Jacques Beinex died on Thursday at the age of 75, his brother Jean-Claude announced on Friday.

He died at his home in Paris, "following a long illness". 

The director was one of the big names in "cinema du look", this movement of the Seventh French art of the 1980s where aesthetics prevailed over naturalism.

Revealed by the film

in 1980, he achieved wider notoriety in 1986 with

, a cult feature film adapted from the novel by Philippe Djian.

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