Pierre Lohm
Pierre Lohm, a famous French cinematographer who once won the Technical Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for "Big Nose Love", died on July 5, 2019 local time at the age of 89. In his career of more than fifty years, he collaborated with famous directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville and Chris Marc, leaving a strong mark on French cinema.
Pierre Lomme was born on 5 April 1930 in Boulogne, France. Growing up in World War II, he collaborated with the famous director Marcel Musi on "The Blues of Saint-Tropez" at the age of 30. In a sense, Pierre Lohm was absent from the entire New Wave era of French cinema, but on another concept, he personally established the face of French modern and contemporary cinema with his own camera.
Pierre Lohm co-directed "The Beautiful May" with Chris Mark
After Saint-Tropez Blues, Pierre Lohm collaborated with directors such as Julius Evans, Jean-Paul La Peneueuil, Alain Cavalier, and even Jean-Pierre Melville to produce films such as "Gone Berserk", "Beautiful May" and the famous "Shadow Trooper". Pierre Lohm at this stage was adept at using extremely calm and clear images to help the director shape the characters and tell the story. It should be said that the French cinema of the 1960s is still in the classic tone of the supremacy of art. Although Pierre Lohm did not participate in the New Wave, he found his place in the film industry, especially in the so-called "quality films".
In the 1970s, Pierre Lohm developed his stable, unmotivable style of video and found his own way of using mirrors in a variety of genre films. During this decade, he filmed Patrice Hau's The Flesh of Love; Jean Eustach's Dirty Story, and two works directed by Margaret Duras. As French cinema declined artistically and commercially, Pierre Lohm also began to shoot commercial films produced in France in the 1980s and 1990s, especially his collaboration with James Ivory, which was exemplary.
Photographic masterpiece "Big Nose Love Saint"
Four films, "In Love with Paris", "Jefferson in Paris", "Merlis's Lover", and "Quartet", helped Pierre Lohm define his position as a good contemporary photographer. In addition, Bruno Nuttan's "Rodin's Lover", Volker Schrondorff's "Glass Rose" and Jean-Paul Lapeniu's "Big Nose Love" have propelled Pierre Lom to the throne of French cinematographers.
Throughout Pierre Lohm's career, it's not hard to see that good work and good technical details always complement each other. Without the wisdom and cinematography of a French director, Pierre Lohm would probably have been just an ordinary cinematographer. In 2003, Pierre Lohm's last work, "Love paris", was released, and in this light comedy, Pierre Lohm's shots are still light and cheerful.