American director died August 6, 2009 at the age of 59. Known for his poignant portraits of teenagers, John Hughes had ended his directing career in 1991 to focus on screenwriting.
With films like The Breakfast Club (1985), and La Folle Journée Ferris Bueller (1986), John Hughes was the specialist in a genre called teen movie, at a time when it does rhyme not with vulgarity and intellectual regression. He developed a keen sense of observation and an amazing ability to decipher the conflicting emotions of young adults in the making.
In 1994, he decided to change his life, went to live in the countryside, refusing all interview. It focuses on screenwriting, sometimes under the pseudonym of Edmond Dantes, after the famous story of Alexander Dumas.
Thus he became a specialist in family comedies, including by launching a series of Mom, I missed the plane but Beethoven or 101 Dalmatians movie version.
The 2000s will not be his best, almost every project being signed Dantes. Include the calamitous Just Visiting. then became a farmer in Illinois, the film was no longer central to its interests.
John Hughes began his career in advertising, then worked as an editor in the famous satirical magazine National Lampoon, before performing in 1984 his first film, Sixteen Candles , which was an immediate success.
His death from a heart attack, August 6, 2009, while walking in Manhattan, has sparked strong emotions in the United States, where his films have become cult 80s.
