A few of Jean-Marc Vallée’s associates, household and colleagues are becoming a member of forces to create a documentary on the acclaimed late Canadian director.
Montreal firm Merchandise 7 says it would produce Lower Print Thank You Bye, a mirrored image on the life and profession of the auteur who rose from Quebec’s movie scene to the heights of Hollywood.
In his brief profession, Vallée dazzled movie competition audiences with 2005 breakout C.R.A.Z.Y., garnered an Oscar nomination for his work on Dallas Consumers Membership and received an Emmy for the HBO collection Huge Little Lies.
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He died out of the blue over the 2021 Christmas vacation weekend at his cabin exterior Quebec Metropolis and a coroner concluded the trigger was coronary artery illness and an irregular heartbeat. Vallée was 58.
Producers say their documentary will draw from archives and authentic footage to inform the story of his life. The undertaking will likely be assisted by his sons Alex and Emile and their mom Chantal Cadieux.
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Marie-Julie Dallaire, who says she met Vallee across the launch of C.R.A.Z.Y., will direct the undertaking, which she describes as a approach “of holding him alive, of mourning him, utilizing our widespread language: cinema.”
Different associates will likely be concerned within the storytelling, together with the documentary’s producer Pierre Even, who beforehand produced C.R.A.Z.Y.‘ and Vallée’s Cafe de Flore, and cinematographer Yves Bélanger, who shot a few of the director’s most formidable initiatives, together with the characteristic Wild and HBO’s Sharp Objects.
Representatives for Merchandise 7 say they hope to launch the movie in late 2023 on the soonest.
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