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Jacques Deray was born on February 19, 1929 in Lyon, Rhône, France. He was a director and writer, known for He Died with His Eyes Open (1985), A Bigger Splash (2015) and Borsalino (1970). He was married to Agnès Vincent-Deray and Nicole Jones.
Deray's flair for the action thriller was virtually unrivalled in France at the time and Trois hommes à abattre benefits from his rigorously well-prepared mise-en-scène, especially in the set-piece actions scenes which include a stunningly well-choreographed cross-Paris car chase that bears a favourable comparison with that seen in Peter Yates' Bullitt (1968).
Jacques Deray drehte vor allem Kriminalfilme und wurde häufig Hitchcock des französischen Films genannt. Er begann seine Karriere als Regieassistent, u. a. von Gilles Grangier, Marcel Camus und Jules Dassin. Ab seinem zweiten selbst inszenierten Film spezialisierte sich Deray weitgehend auf das Genre des Kriminalfilms.
Deray's masterfully restrained mise-en-scène (this is surely his best work), assisted by Jean-Jacques Tarbès' stylish photography and some acting of the most exquisite subtlety from an exemplary cast, makes La Piscine a definitive work of 1960s French cinema - and a frighteningly perceptive examination of the human psyche.
Five men collaborate to buy drugs, but one steals the money and all the rest are killed as they make mistakes. Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Michel Auclair, Claude Dauphin, José Giovanni, Michèle Mercier
100 minutes. Country. France. Language. French. Box office. 4,956,922 admissions [1] (France) Le Marginal is a 1983 French crime film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The music for the film was composed by Ennio Morricone.
May 20, 2021 · Its director, Jacques Deray, is not a name typically associated with the classic French cinema of his time. But in a journeyman’s career beginning in the early ’60s that emphasized personality ...
