DIRECTOR FRANCOIS DUPEYRON’S DEATH

Filmmaker broken mouths of the Great War, the excluded, whether Kurdish or relegated to a city suburb, the French director François Dupeyron, died Thursday at age 65, filmed the homeless ranks and “battered” the life.

Evolving at the margin of French cinema, away from the big productions formatted, François Dupeyron leaves some sensitive and unique film, his first feature film Strange place for a meeting (1988), bringing together the duo Gérard Depardieu Catherine Deneuve, at last , My soul healed by you (2013), through the house of officers in 2001, probably his most famous film.
“I came to cinema, kid, because I was no written” declared in 2004 the native of Tartas in the Landes. An affirmation of course highly questionable from a director who wrote all scenarios (often adapting novels) and has also tried to literature.
François Dupeyron stood out with two short films, The Night Owl (1984) and Lamento (1988). For his first feature film, Strange Place for a meeting (1988), he united two stars, Deneuve and Depardieu, which intersect at a motorway service area.
His next two films were less successful ( A beating heart , 1991 and Machine , 1994) but the director won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival (Spain) in 1999 with What’s life? , a simple peasant romance amid unease and crisis of mad cow disease.
With The room officers , drama recounting the reconstruction of broken jaws of the Great War, adapted from the novel by Marc Dugain, François Dupeyron is invited in competition at Cannes in 2001 and nominated for a César the next year in the categories Best Director and Best movie.
Omar Sharif grocer philosopher
After this success, the filmmaker seems more in search of lightness with Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran , adapted from the play by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, illuminated by Omar Sharif that will get with this philosopher grocer role a César Award for Best Actor in 2004.
Always attracted downgraded, the director was also interested in illegal immigration by telling, with means and dialogues economy, the adventures of a young Kurd in search of England ( Inguélézi ) and sometimes funny daily and sometimes less, of the inhabitants of the Paris suburbs ( Help yourself and heaven will help you , 2008).
“I do not pretend to change the world, (but) the world is beginning to fracture into two, one must be aware,” stated the director hired by presenting Inguélézi in 2003 in San Sebastian.
Never resigned, the filmmaker took advantage of the release of his latest film, My soul healed by you , to push a cry of anger against the funding system “perverted” of French cinema. He denounced in particular the leading role of “television” became “one producer” in a “totalitarian” system.


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