Jean-Jacques Beineix

Born October 8, 1946· Paris, France

† Died January 13, 2022

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Emerging from a family-son of insurance director Robert Beineix and Madeleine Maréchal-he studied at Lycée Carnot and Lycée Condorcet, briefly entered medical school before leaving after May 1968, and after a failed IDHEC exam (21st) turned to film, beginning as assistant director on the TV series Les Saintes chéries (1964) and later assisting Claude Berri and Claude Zidi. His first short, Le Chie…

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