Celebrity Biographies
Jean rabier
He illuminated the bright colors of the happy scenes and the dark ones of the sad ones in the classic “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”, and was also a regular collaborator in the cinema of Claude Chabrol.
French cinema is in mourning these days for the death, on February 15, of Jean Rabier , one of its most illustrious cinematographers, at the age of 89, at his residence in Port-de-Bouc, south of Paris. , as revealed by the artistic director Jean-Yves Rabier, his son.
Born on March 16, 1927, in Montfort-l’Amaury, Jean Bernard Rabier worked as an industrial designer. After the end of the Nazi occupation, he found a job at the Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. He became interested in the audiovisual world when he accompanied Edmond Séchan and Jacques Dupont as a camera operator, to shoot a series of short documentaries in Africa.
He began working as a cinematographer in the early 1950s, with titles such as Cleo from 5 to 7 , by Agnès Varda , and The Evil Eye , which began his various collaborations with the prolific filmmaker Claude Chabrol , followed by titles such as Nada , Los cousins , The unfaithful wife , The butcher , A matter of women , A double life , Landru , Quiet days in Clichy and Madame Bovary , from 1991, which was his last work.
He also had time to work with other filmmakers, such as Marcel Ophüls ( La estafadora ) and Jacques Demy , with whom he shot his most famous title, Les Umbrellas de Chesburgo , where he obtained colorful Technicolor images.