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Jean-Pierre Thorn Dies: French ‘Dare To Struggle, Dare To Win’ Director & ACID Org Co-Founder Was 78
Jean-Pierre Thorn Dies: French ‘Dare To Struggle, Dare To Win’ Director & ACID Org Co-Founder Was 78
Capturing a historic strike at the Renault-Flins automobile factory during France’s 1968 social protests which saw workers and students unite, it remains one of his best known works at home and internationally to this day. Thorn branched into fiction in 1990 with Je t’ai dans la peau, starring Solveig Dommartin as a nun who falls in love with a priest and then becomes a union and feminist activist. In a press release paying tribute to Thorn, l’ACID recalled how he had been one of 80 signatories of a 1991 text in support of independent cinema and entitled “Resister”, alongside Claudine Bories, Robert Guédiguian and Gérard Mordillat, which acted as the spur for the body’s creation.
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