The filmmaker, painter and sculptor Jacques Bral died Sunday at the age of 72.
Among his six feature films for the cinema, he directed
Exterior Night
, a cult film with Gérard Lanvin, André Dussollier and Christine Boisson.
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Born in 1948 in Tehran, he left his native country for France in 1966, where he first studied architecture at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, then followed courses at the Institut de Formation Cinématographique.
After several short films, in 1975 he directed
A Whale with Toothache
, with Bernadette Lafont, Francis Blanche, Michael Lonsdale and Eddie Constantine in the cast.
In 1980,
Exterior night was
released
, carried by a trio of new actors, a post-sixty-eight nocturnal journey shot after sunset or in the wee hours of pale mornings in the streets of Paris.
Rare filmmaker, he will still sign
Polar
(1984), adapted from a novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette with Jean-François Balmer,
Mauvais boy
(1993),
Un Printemps à Paris
(2006) with Eddy Mitchell, or
Le noir (te) suits you so well
in 2012. He devoted his last years to painting but also to sculpture.
