Martine Marignac dies: Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, the producer of Leos Carax was 75 years old

Martin Marignac, a French producer who worked with several notable directors including Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard and Leos Carax, has died in France at the age of 75.

Born in 1946, Marignac entered the cinema in the 1970s as a press officer, working for seven years alongside Simon Mizrahi, a cinephile and publicist who witnessed the birth of the New Wave and later helped put the films in motion. directors.

Marignac went into production in the early 1980s with the creation of the film collective La Cecilia. The name of the collective was inspired by Colonia Cecilia in Brazil, founded by a group of Italian anarchists at the end of the 19th century.

Under this banner, he began his long working relationship with Rivette in the 1981 film. North Bridge. Other credits from this period included Godard passionJean-Louis Comoli Balles Perdue and Chantal Ackerman golden eighties.

In 1987 Marignac formed a new company, Pierre Grise Productions, with Maurice Tinchant. There, he continued to produce Rivette’s films, leading to productions such as the winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1991. The beautiful Noiseuse as much as up, down, fragile and his last feature film before his death in 2016, around a small mountain.

Actress Emmanuelle Beart, who stayed with Marignac after starring in the film alongside Michele Piccoli and Jane Birkin. the noisy beauty, He paid tribute to the producer on his Instagram account.

“Another part of my life has flown by and cinema is losing a strong and involved producer,” he wrote.

Mariniak also had close ties to Georgian director Otar Ioseliani, who emigrated to France in 1982 due to political persecution. He has produced most of his films of him since the early 1990s. La Chasse Aux Papillons.

Other longtime collaborators included the French director duo Daniel Hullet and Jean-Marie Straub. He has starred in most of his feature films, including the 1999 Cannes title Un Certain Regard. Laugh!.

In 2009 Marignac received the Locarno Film Festival’s Raimondo Rezzonico Award for independent producers. Recipients include Arnon Milchan, Gayle Ann Heard and, this year, Jason Blum.

Over the course of his 40-year career, Mariniac amassed less than 50 film credits and remained active until 2019. His credits over the past decade have included Leos Carax. sacred enginesSophie Filières’ if I don’tby Yoseliyan winter song and Zhanna Balibari A wonder in the suburbsof which he was executive producer.