Serge Daney was a highly influential French film critic and theorist. He began his career at the legendary film journal Cahiers du cinéma in 1964, eventually becoming its editor in the 1970s. Later, he moved to the daily newspaper Libération, where he broadened his critical scope to include television, advertising, and other visual media. Daney's theoretical work on the image, its ethical implications, and its relationship to reality has left a lasting legacy on film studies.