Jean-Pierre Mocky

JeanPierre Mocky 6 July 1929 8 August 2019 pseudonym of JeanPaul Adam Mokiejewski was a French film director actor screenwriter and producer Mocky was born in Nice France to Polish immigrant parents Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies including some of those he also directed Solo Lalbatros LOmbre dune chance Un Linceul na pas de poches His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival He began as an actor in the cinema and theater In particular he played in Jean Drévilles Les Cassepieds 1948 Jean Cocteaus Orphée 1950 and Bernard Borderies The Mask of the Gorilla 1957 But it was especially in Italy that he became famous thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso 1954 and Federico Fellini on La strada 1954 he wrote his first film La Tête contre les murs 1959 and planned to direct it himself but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs 1959 Since then he has never stopped shooting As early as the 1960s he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner 1963 and La Grande Lessive 1968 After May 1968 he turned to darker films with Solo 1969 in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left then LAlbatros 1971 which shows the corruption of politicians In the 1980s he returned to success with a film denouncing a year before the drama of Heysel the excesses of some football fans À mort larbitre 1984 and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes Le Miraculé 1987 In the 1990s and 2000s his films met with less success but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm In the beginning his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society Later he concentrated on farce as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex Michel Serrault pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline Claude Jade in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives Mockys cinema often satirical and pamphleteer is generally inspired by the truth of society He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly He worked with Bourvil A Funny Parishioner The City of Unspeakable Fear La Grande Lessive and The Stallion Fernandel The Exchange and Life Michel Simon The Red Ibis Michel Serrault twelve films including Le Miraculé Francis Blanche five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear Jacqueline Maillan five films Jean Poiret eight films and with the stars Catherine Deneuve Agent Trouble Claude Jade Bonsoir Jane Birkin Noir comme le souvenir Jeanne Moreau Le Miraculé and Stéphane Audran The Seasons of Pleasure In 2010 he received the Prix HenriLanglois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him He died on 8 August 2019 Source Article JeanPierre Mocky from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30