David Lynch will continue “to nourish our imagination”, declared the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, after the death of the American director, who had been president of the jury and had received the Palme d’Or.
“It is with infinite sadness that we learn of the death of David Lynch, we lose a unique and visionary artist whose work will have influenced cinema like few others before”, greeted the Festival sur X and its general delegate , Thierry Frémaux.
“Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990 for + Sailor and Lula + then Best Director Prize in 2001 for + Mulholland Drive +, he elegantly chaired the jury in 2002”, they recalled. “He leaves behind a rare and timeless body of work, whose films will continue to nourish our imagination and inspire all those who see in cinema an art capable of revealing the unspeakable.”
Giant of American cinema, author of the cult series “Twin Peaks”, Lynch was very appreciated in Europe, and particularly in France, where he had, among other things, designed a select nightclub in the heart of Paris, the Silencio.
It was also in Paris, at the Cartier Foundation, with which he maintained close relations, that a major monographic exhibition was dedicated to him in 2007, “The Air is on Fire”.
“We are all very moved and affected by the Cartier Foundation,” Grazia Quaroni, director of the foundation’s collection, told AFP on Friday, which includes “a heritage of drawings revealing its continued creative ferment.”
-“The former general director of the foundation, Hervé Chandès, discovered his studio in Los Angeles and he revealed to the world all the facets of expression of David Lynch, filmmaker but also painter, designer, sculptor, photographer, musician, d “an immense generosity and rare attention to others, whoever they may be,” she added.
In addition to his Cannes distinctions, David Lynch had twice received the César for best foreign film, in 1982 for “Elephant Man” then in 2002 for “Mulholland Drive”. “A legend of cinema has passed away. David Lynch leaves behind an extraordinary filmography. (…) He is one of the great filmmakers who marked their era and whom we will never forget”, greeted the Academy of Caesar on X.
“I wish you a wonderful trip David”, wrote Marion Cotillard, who had shot for Lynch in a medium-length film for Dior in 2010, “Lady Blue Shanghai”.
“I am so proud that our paths crossed and to have had the great chance to be filmed by you. Being near you was like being in contact with a depth of heart and soul,” said declared the French star on Instagram.
The family of David Lynch announced his death Thursday evening at the age of 78.
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