He was the author of the first pornographic film broadcast on Canal+. But this Friday, May 2, it is no longer. On the eve of his 80th birthday, Jean-François Davy is dead. This is what AFP announces this day, after having known the sad news of the filmmaker’s family. The producer and director died at home in Paris, as his son Mathieu Davy said. His career had started in the 1960s and 1970s. And it was with the film exhibition that the man had met success. This documentary, started behind the scenes of a shoot with actress Claudine Beccarie, had been presented in Cannes. And it is in theaters that he will be successful. He was then the first film X broadcast on Canal+.
Subsequently, Jean-François Davy produced and produced pornographic or sometimes conventional films until the 1980s, recalls Franceinfo. He developed an important activity of video editor, before returning behind the camera in the 2000s. But it was in the 1970s that man experienced his hour of glory, thanks to the sensational Exhibition. Nevertheless these twenty-round years, Jean-François Davy has earned his life thanks to skillful real estate investments, as reported Vanity Fairwho returns to his crazy story. The disappeared producer recognized at the time: “As a child, I wanted to be a train driver. In fact, I always wanted to be the one who drives and not the one who is led.“And if the weekends of this teacher son and a mother-cathe mother are devoted for a long time to scouting, he will finally take a completely different turn.
“In this Puritan world, scouting had a paramilitary side. In the early 1960s released the first issues of Him And, around the age of 15, I discovered a strong attraction for the body of women. At that time, I lost faith … praying! During a scout camp, I decided to spend the night in a chapel. And I made great decisions: I was going to see everything again, stop smoking, give up masturbating, etc. A real radicalization. In the early morning, I noticed that nothing was happening. Over the next day, I replaced mass by the bistro“, He had recognized, in 2017, with our colleagues. Student in Henri-IV, he skips cinemas and took love for this seventh art. He then set up the independent cinema team, an association which aims to produce films, and entrusts its treasury to Patrick Balkany.
Jean-François Davy makes the event in Cannes
His first experience on a set will be that of assistant on Brigitte and Brigitte (1966) by Luc Moullet. Then, he launched in 1968 with a thriller entitled Trap. “My co -producer, a shoe merchant converted into the seventh art, asked me to spice up the intrigue of eroticism. I wanted to make author films but cinema represented a good way to twist my neck at my Judeo-Christian education. So I welcomed his proposal.“And it was with this film that he will then put his feet in the world of erotic cinema. Davy thought he was shooting his first thriller; he had just set foot in erotic cinema. When exhibition comes out he made the event in Cannes in 1975, then triumphs all summer in the cinema. It is one of the greatest memories that he remains of the now late Jean-François Davy.
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