French director Jacques Rozier, who was part of the French Nouvelle Vague, died on Friday at the age of 96, reports Le Monde newspaper, which is ahead of Losa.

Jacques Rozier, to whom the IndieLisboa Festival and Cinemateca dedicated a retrospective in 2018, made cinema and television, leaving only short films and six feature films, including “Adieu Philippine” (1962).

During the retrospective in Lisbon, Cinematica Portuguesa recalled the “legendary reputation” of Jacques Rosier, “of productions with a difficult denouement, spaced in time, simultaneously subject to the difficulties of diffusion, the obstacles posed by lack of distribution or delayed distribution and not a few times overly discreet than the movies “.

Jacques Rozier, born in Paris in 1926 and entered the cinema under the influence of Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo, was one of the last names associated with the French “Nouvelle Vague” and perhaps the least known.

Among the films he directed, none of which had a commercial premiere in Portugal, are “Rentrée des Classes” (1955), “Les shipwrecked de l’île de la tortue” (1976) and “Maine Océan” (1985).

Of particular note is the latter, with “a refined musical sense”, as Cinemateca described it, and which was produced by Paolo Branco, with photography directed by Acácio de Almeida.