The filmmaker Jacques Rozier, figure of the New Wave and author of a handful of films including Adieu Philippine and Maine Ocean, died at the age of 96 in the hospital, on the night of Thursday to Friday, said Michèle Berson, his collaborator who worked with him for fifteen years.
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Jacques Rozier has just left us. He was freedom itself, and we will miss him terribly, "responded the Cinémathèque française, which paid tribute to him on Twitter. "Of the filmmakers of the New Wave, Rozier is the one who rambles. The one who likes everything to go wrong, to better feed his very particular sense of dramaturgy (...).
»Prix Jean Vigo 1986 for "Maine Océan", René Clair Prize 1997 for all of his work, Carrosse d'or 2002 in Cannes, Jacques Rozier directed "Adieu Philippine" (1962), chronicle of youth against the backdrop of the Algerian war, "Du côté d'Orouët" (1973) and "Les naufragés de l'île de la tortue" (1976). Four films in more than half a century...
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He shot two others, Fifi martingale (2001), never released in theaters, and Le perroquet parisien (2007), which remained unfinished. He has also shot about twenty short films, often noticed, and worked for television.
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He was an independent filmmaker, free," said Michèle Berson, he worked "without a preconceived script in advance" and had an ability to "restore the present".
In 2019, Jean-Luc Godard (who has since died) also welcomed the trace left by Jacques Rozier in French cinema: "When Agnès Varda died, I thought: the real New Wave, we are only two. Me and (...) Jacques Rozier who started a little before me".
