Biografía

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1978

In his early shorts La Rentrée des classes (1955), Blue Jeans (1958), and first feature, Adieu Philippine (1963), Jacques Rozier captured the spirit of the younger generation in France in the late 1950s and early 60s, perhaps more successfully than any of his contemporaries.

One notable short is his 1964 work Paparazzi, exploring Brigitte Bardot's relationship with the photographers trying to capture her every move during her time on the Italian island of Capri for the shoot of Godard's classic "Contempt". It was one of the first works to explore the rise of celebrity culture and the loss of privacy that came with international stardom.

Rozier was a French film director and screenwriter.

His work was quintessentially New Wave: freewheeling, naturalistic and spontaneous.