The Lifes Work of Jean-Marc Vallee
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Jean-Marc Valleedied December 26, 2021, at 58.
It felt wrong to lead with that considering the sort of filmmaker Vallee was.
Born and raised in Montreal, Vallee studied filmmaking at College Ahuntsic and the Universite du Quebec.
And music in life is like that.
Tell me who you listen to, and I will tell you who you are.
What I love most in life is my special weapon.
Vallee benefited as well, heading immediately into 2014sWild, based on Cheryl Strayeds best-selling wilderness-adventure memoir.
In 2016, the latter was subsumed intoHello Sunshine, a larger company created by the same duo.
It was nearly unprecedented for a TV series to get as much attention for its filmmaking asBig Little Liesdid.
It comes mostly from a woman, from mothers.
Vallees mother died of cancer three years before he directedWild.
Of course I related to the material,he said in that CBC interview.
If they can, thats a plus, because were here for 80 years 90 if were lucky.
But the trip is amazing.
Im 56 and Im starting to go:Eighty?
That means I have 24 years left.
But your question makes me think about it.
Why are we here?
Why am I doing this?
Art has this … power, maybe?
To change mentalities or maybe change perceptions, like you were saying.
Oh, I see this differently because I saw this thing.
I was told this story.
