Far from emerging from Paris's elite, Mr Beaudoin was a French-Canadian chartered accountant who happened to marry the daughter of a successful maker of snow-mobiles, one Joseph-Armand Bombardier.
The daughter of the prolific film maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf won the 2000 Cannes Jury Prize for her following film Blackboards, about the trials of two travelling teachers in Kurdistan.
Initially presented in April at a studio theater within the Royal Opera House, "The Fireworks-Maker's Daughter" calls for nine players plus the conductor, all of whom are onstage, rather than hidden in the pit.
Thomas Spragge, a 54-year-old prototype toy-maker in Massachusetts, had never heard of Daft Punk until three years ago when his daughter asked him to make a helmet.