“It is with great regret that we, his family, announce the death of the man and the artist, David Lynch“, notes the press release. The director, author of ten feature films released between 1977 and 2006, had captivated a cohort of admirers fascinated by the disturbing strangeness of his films.
“There is a big void in the world now that he is no longer with us,” adds his family, who did not give details on the causes of his death and asked for respect for his privacy.
Born in 1946 in Montana, David Lynch is considered a master of movie theater who revolutionized the image and marked this art with the disturbing and haunting atmosphere of these films.
From the black and white zombie story”Erasehead” (1977), his first feature film financed by odd jobs, one of his consecrations with “Sailor et Lula” (1990), palme d’Or has Cannesmost of his works have become cult.
-Another masterpiece for critics, “Elephant Man” (1980), a moving film about a deformed creature from Victorian England. In 1990, he created “Twin Peaks“, a legendary series which revolutionized the genre and transformed millions of viewers into detectives haunted by the mysteries it unraveled over two seasons. A quarter of a century later, it did it again with “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017).
Named several times to Oscarshe received an honorary statuette in 2019 for his entire filmography. In Francehe had obtained the César for best foreign film for “Mullholland Drive“.
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