David Lynch, giant of American cinema with immense influence, director of “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive”, has died at the age of 78, his family announced Thursday in a press release published on his Facebook page.
“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 (northwest), David Lynch is considered a master of cinema 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, to one of his consecrations with “Sailor and Lula” (1990), Palme d’Or at Cannes, most of his works have become cult.
-Another critical masterpiece is “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, he did it again with “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017).
Nominated several times for the Oscars, he received an honorary statuette in 2019 for his entire filmography. In France, he won the César for best foreign film for “Mullholland Drive”.
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