Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture and Communication, pays tribute to Jean-Louis Bertuccelli
The film and television director Jean-Louis Bertuccelli has left us. He was 71 years old.
After studying music, Jean-Louis Bertuccelli dreamed of a career as a musician. He eventually moved on to a first career as a sound engineer and then turned with the same passion towards the image.
His first feature film, “Remparts d'argile”, won him the Jean Vigo Award in 1971—one of the finest awards in French cinema—and the following year he represented France at the Oscars. After this masterstroke, Jean-Louis Bertuccelli would offer Annie Girardot in «Doctor Françoise Gailland» one of her strongest and most moving roles for which she will obtain a César in 1977.
The work of Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, to whom we also owe a very beautiful adaptation to the cinema of the novel of René-Victor Pilhes, «L'Imprécateur», and the realization for the small screen of «Momo», is that of a humanist who had at heart to denounce tirelessly the injustices and flaws of our society.
I join in the pain of his loved ones and offer my sincere condolences to his family.