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Jean-Marc Vallée
Jean-Marc Vallée is a native of Montréal, of the Rosemont area, to be precise. He studied cinema at the Ahuntsic Collège and at the University of Montreal. In 1992 his first short film Stéréotypes won various prizes and he was honored at numerous festivals.
He returned to short films with Les Fleurs Magiques (1995) and Les Mots Magiques (1998) which have won seven awards and special mentions.
In 1995, he set out to make his first feature, the thriller, Black List which went to number one at the box office and was nominated for nine Prix Génie.
Following the success of his first film, Jean-Marc Vallée directed an episode of the TV series Strangers, and the American western Los Locos (1998).
In 1998 he directed two episodes of the TV series, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne.
No matter what kind of film I’m making, my cinematic approach is always the same: to tell a story with a sincere desire to give the best possible spectacle.
The concept of the spectacle is very important to me. Like every viewer, I like to be captivated, to be confounded in my expectations, to be plunged into the vortex of suspense; I like when the rhythm is broken, and then restored and then accelerated; I like to be surprised, to be touched, hustled, and provoked; to discover new universes, to dream, to laugh, to cry, to do both at the same time; and I like, at the end, to leave the theatre with a pleasant feeling of enjoying life to the fullest, of biting it hard, of taking action, because I have just found, while watching a movie, the small spark of clarity which enables me to see life as it should always appear: beautiful.
(Jean-Marc Vallée)
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