Jean Douchet, the legendary film critic, bon vivant and one of the last remaining survivors of the French New Wave, died in Paris Thursday. He was 90.during its heyday in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, Douchet was one of the core members, alongside critics turned filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette, of a generation that would change both French cinema and movies in general.
Unlike his contemporaries, Douchet didn’t become a director himself, although he did make a short film, entitled, released in 1965. He also made cameo appearances in several movies of the epoch, playing the lover of Antoine Doinel’s mother in Truffaut’sCeline and Julie Go BoatingAlthough Douchet contributed many articles to theearly on his career, he more or less stopped publishing in the mid-1960s and spent the remainder of his life hosting movie clubs in Paris and the rest of France.
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