Jacques Rozier Dies: Last Surviving Member Of French New Wave Was 96
deadline.comDirector Jacques Rozier, who was regarded as the last surviving member of the French New Wave, has died. He was 96. French media reported that a close acquaintance of the filmmaker had confirmed his death on June 2 in his native city of Paris, after a short spell in hospital.
Rozier never achieved the renown of Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Claude Chabrol or Eric Rohmer but his work had its place in the French New Wave and pushed boundaries in ways that laid a path for filmmakers today.
After studying at the early French cinema school IDHEC, Rozier cut his directing teeth as a TV assistant, while making his own shorts including Rentrée Des Classes (1956) and Blue Jeans (1958).
The latter work played at a short film festival in the city of Tours, where it caught the attention of then-film critic Godard, who highlighted it as one of the stand-out works of the edition alongside shorts by Varda and Demy.
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