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Claude Berri, 1934 - 2009.
By David Hudson on 01/12/2009
He also directed an adaptation of Emile Zola's "Germinal" and was a prolific producer, whose credits included Roman Polanski's 1979 drama "Tess" as well as last year's "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis," the most successful French film ever.
Reuters.
Updated through 1/13.
Updates, 1/13: "Godard may be cooler; Rohmer warmer. Besson is flashier and Ozon more inventive. None of them, however, spoke to as wide an audience as Berri. None can lay claim to have changed a foreign culture with a single feature in the way that Berri arguably did with 'Jean de Florette.'" The Guardian's Xan Brooks.
"With his penchant for lush cinematography and scoring and audience-pleasing plot resolution, Mr Berri was often credited with melding the wry, oblique sensibility of French New Age cinema with the more commercial outlook of Hollywood," writes Bruce Weber in the New York Times.
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Sad news. Berri also produced the mostly delightful "Secret of the Grain," which possesses a good deal of his lyricism (albeit in a somewhat different manner). That French import is still, I believe, in theaters. We should all be so productive up to the last breath.
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