Jean-Pierre Mocky , who was honoured by the French Film Festival UK in 2016 Photo: Richard Mowe A young Mocky who worked with Jean Cocteau in 1949 as the poet in Orphan Photo: Unifrance One of France’s most renegade, colourful and unclassifiable filmmakers Jean-Pierre Mocky has died in Paris at the age of 90, it has been announced by his family.
He was the director of more than 60 films, notably The Big Wash (La Grande Lessive), Heaven Sent (Un Drôle De Paroissien), Le Miraculé, A Mort l’Arbitre and Y a-t-il Un Français Dans La Salle?.
He was a man of many parts. In the 1940s he was a celebrated theatre and film star probably best-known for his performance in Jean Cocteau's Orpheus (1950).
Mocky began his directorial career with the 1959 release, The Chasers, and has subsequently turned out loosely constructed features noted for their broad black humour and cynicism. Although he is in...
He was the director of more than 60 films, notably The Big Wash (La Grande Lessive), Heaven Sent (Un Drôle De Paroissien), Le Miraculé, A Mort l’Arbitre and Y a-t-il Un Français Dans La Salle?.
He was a man of many parts. In the 1940s he was a celebrated theatre and film star probably best-known for his performance in Jean Cocteau's Orpheus (1950).
Mocky began his directorial career with the 1959 release, The Chasers, and has subsequently turned out loosely constructed features noted for their broad black humour and cynicism. Although he is in...
- 8/8/2019
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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