Margaret Menegoz, head of French film company Les Films du Losange, which produced films by Michael Hanke, Wim Wenders and Films by Éric Rohmer and others. She is 83 years old.
The company issued a statement confirming that Menegos died on August 7 in Montpellier. , and described Menegos as “open-minded” who particularly cherishes the European and international stages.
Menegos took over Les Films du Losange in 1973 and led the company for nearly 50 years. love affair, white ribbon and cacheWenders’ 1977 drama film American friendsVolker Schlondorff’s Swann in love (1984), Agnieszka Holland Europe Europe (1990), Rohmer’s spring story (1990) and winter story (1992) and so on.
love affair It received 5 Oscar nominations in 2013, including Menegoz’s Best Picture nomination. It won the award for Best International Feature Film. white ribbon Nominated for two Oscars.
The German-French filmmaker was born in Hungary in 1941, but was expelled from Hungary along with her German-American family after the 1945 siege of Budapest. She grew up in Germany. Menigos joined Les Films du Losange in 1975, the company founded in 1962 by Rohmer and Barbet Schröder. O Marquisestarring Edith Clever and Bruno Ganz. Schroeder was busy preparing for his 1975 feature film mistressAfterwards, Menegos came in to manage the company and stayed on.
During his long tenure at Lausanne Day Films, Menegós worked with a generation of influential European directors, including Wenders, Rohmer and Haneke, Andrzej Wajda, Lars von Tri Erl, Margrethe von Trotta, Christian Petzold and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In 2001, she began cooperating with Austrian director Haneke on feature films piano teacher, and produced all of his subsequent features in German and French, including love affairstarring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert; and, most recently, happy endingalso starring Huppert.
Menegoz launched the theatrical distribution brand for Les Films du Losange in 1986 and established an international sales department in the early 1990s. In 2021, she organized the sale of the company to Alexis Dantec and Charles Gillibert, ensuring that this legendary company can continue to operate.
Meneges was also a tireless promoter of French cinema and took over as chairman of film export agency Unifrance after the sudden death of his predecessor and friend Daniel Toscana du Plantier at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival. Served until 2009.
“Marguerite didn’t work internationally, she embodied it,” wrote Daniela Elstner, current managing director of Unifrance, who began her career in international sales at Les Films du Losange, in a statement. “Her work will represent her, the way she thinks and loves the world. She is a role model for many young women. I am one of them; Margaret taught me everything about the world of cinema, that it has no boundaries, And invites us to think outside the box. Thank you Margaret, you will be greatly missed.
