Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée, acclaimed for his naturalistic approach in directing stars including Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, has died.
Director and producer Jean-Marc Vallée, who won an Emmy for directing the series Big Little Lies and whose 2013 drama Dallas Buyers Club earned multiple Oscar nominations, has died.Dallas Buyers Club earned six Academy Awards nominations including Best PictureHis representative, Bumble Ward, said Sunday that Vallée died suddenly in his cabin outside Quebec City, Canada, over the weekend. He was 58.
He directed Emily Blunt in 2009's The Young Victoria and became a sought-after name in Hollywood after Dallas Buyers Club, featuring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.The Canadian filmmaker often shot with natural light and hand-held cameras and gave actors freedom to improvise the script and move around within a scene's location.
The Pacific Coast Trail stretches more than 4,000km down the west coast of the US, roughly 160km from the shoreline. "It's giving the importance to storytelling, emotion, characters. I try not to interfere too much. I don't need to cut performances.