Hervé Le Roux (1958 – 26 July 2017) was a French film critic and director.

Early life

Hervé Le Roux was born in 1958.

Career

Le Roux began his career as a critic for ''

Cahiers du Cinéma ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' (, ) is a French film magazine co-founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.Itzkoff, Dave (9 February 2009''Cahiers Du Cinéma Will Continue to Publish''The New York TimesMacnab, Ge ...

''. In 1989, he was an assistant director to

Alain Bergala Alain Bergala (; born 8 August 1943), is a French film critic, essayist, screenwriter and director. Biography Former writer for ''Cahiers du cinéma'', he is best known as a specialist in the works of Jean-Luc Godard. He taught at the Universi ...

's ''Incognito''. Le Roux directed three films. His first film, ''Grand bonheur'', was released in 1993. His second film, released in 1997, was a three-hour documentary called ''Reprise''. The film showed the reactions of factory workers in

Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (, literally ''Saint-Ouen on Seine'') is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region of France. It is located in the northern suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. The commune was call ...

who had to return to work at the end of the 1968 strikes. His third film, ''On appelle ça... le printemps'', was released in 2001.

Death

Le Roux died on 26 July 2017 in Poitiers at the age of 59.

References

1958 births 2017 deaths People from Poitiers French film critics French film directors {{France-film-director-stub