Jean-Marc Vallée

Director

March 9, 1963 (58 years)

† December 25, 2021

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Biography

Jean-Marc Vallée (March 9, 1963 – December 25, 2021) was a Canadian director, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Vallée went on to make a number of critically acclaimed short films, including "Stéréotypes" (1991), "Les fleurs magiques" (1995), and "Les mots magiques" (1998). His debut feature, "Black List" (1995), was nominated for nine Genie Awards, including nods for Vallée's direction and editing. His fourth feature film, "C.R.A.Z.Y." (…

Filmography

7.9

Big Little Lies

The tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.

7.8

Sharp Objects

Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.

6.8

Demolition

An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.

7.9

Dallas Buyers Club

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

7.0

Wild

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

4.2

Strangers

Anthology series of stand alone episodes about Americans in Paris and the sometimes tragic and sometimes uplifting relationships, trysts and loves they find there.

7.2

The Young Victoria

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.

7.5

C.R.A.Z.Y.

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

6.8

Café de Flore

Jacqueline is a young mother living in 1960s Paris with her disabled son Laurent. Abandoned by her husband, Jacqueline sacrifices everything to care for her son and vows to give Laurent a “normal” life full of happiness. Antoine, is a successful DJ in present day Montreal who seems to have it all: a thriving career, two beautiful daughters, partner Rose, with whom he is passionately in love. However, nothing is perfect and Antoine’s ex-wife Carole remains devastated by their recent separation.

4.3

Loser Love

A young woman decides to get even with her abusive boyfriend.

3.0

Los Locos

In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people across the desert.

4.9

Black List

At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. It contains the names of some very influential judges and politicians. Then, dead bodies and death threats erupt. Jacques is the trial judge and his own life seems to be in danger...

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Les Fleurs Magiques

In the 1960s, a dreamy kid tells how he thinks he can change his alcoholic father's personality: with magic flowers. First film of a trilogy on father-son relationships.

9.0

Stereotypes

Stereotypes is a Canadian fantasy short film, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and released in 1991.[ The film centres on a woman who turns into a monster, and plunges her husband into a surreal alternate world, after he cheats on her.

7.0

Les mots magiques

A young man in his thirties goes to his father's house in the hope of telling him once and for all what he has always wanted to tell him. Then begins an endless nightmare.

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