Jean-Jacques Andrien
Jean -Jacques Andrien ( born June 1, 1944 in Verviers, Liège Province) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
After schooling Andrien studied film at the Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion ( INSAS ) with professors such as André Souris André Delvaux and. After graduating, he began his career in the film industry in 1968 as assistant director in the film directed by Delvaux Un soir, un train with Yves Montand and Anouk Aimée.
In his later works, he 's inspired by his native city and the Walloon Region, where his films were characterized by the influence of the school of painting in Verviers and often constitute serious, somewhat introverted characters.
Already in his early films, he developed a personal and original style so because of the lonely main characters, who are always in search of their own roots. In Le Fils d' Amr est Mort ( 1975) with Pierre Clémenti and Claire Wauthion, for which he also wrote the screenplay, co-star Pierre is a living man in Brussels, friendship closes with an immigrant from Tunisia. After he locates these dead and finds that he really did not know him, Pierre decides to Tunisia to travel, to find out who was his friend. For the film Andrien 1975 was awarded the Golden Leopard at the International Locarno Film Festival.
In the vast land of Alexis Droeven ( " Le grand paysage d' Alexis Droeven ", 1981) with Jan Decleir, Nicole Garcia and Maurice Garrel Andrien leads the dialogue between Alexis and his father about current issues such as the milk quota of the European Community, but also on the problems of linguistics. Press this problem from all of reality as memoirs. The film was nominated for the International Film Festival in Berlin in 1981 for the Golden Bear.
In the film, longing to Australia (1989 ) with Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons provides Andrien, which also in turn wrote the screenplay, one living in Australia wool merchants, particularly the returns to his home town of Verviers, after the business of his brother is in danger of insolvency. The dialectic of inwardness and landscape, roots and exile is constantly present. At the same time in this work, he creates a method of balance between the accuracy of the anecdote and the universality of his approach. To illustrate his paradoxes, the director uses many techniques: For example, he distorted the soundtrack and used in image sequences wrong voices. The film was nominated for the International Film Festival in Venice in 1989 for the grand prize and won the Osella for the camera by Giorgos Arvanitis.
Filmography
(R = Director, P = Producer, D = writer)
- Le rouge, le rouge, le rouge (1972, R)
- Le Fils d' Amr est Mort (1975, R, D )
- Le grand paysage d' Alexis Droeven (1981, R)
- Longing to Australia (1989, R, D )
- Parfois trop d' amour (1992, P)
- Quand les hommes pleurent ... (2001, P)
- L' enfant endormi (2004, P)