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Tag Archives: Jacques Demy
Three Seats for the 26th / Trois places pour le 26 (1988) Jacques Demy, Yves Montand, Mathilda May, Patrick Fierry
A pseudo-documentary on the life of Yves Montand, who plays himself, in this tribute to his long career. Read More »
Lola (1961) Jacques Demy, Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden
Roland Cassard is a young man with no job and seemingly no prospects. Read More »
Bay of Angels / La baie des anges (1963) Jacques Demy, Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers
Jean is a clerk in a bank. His colleague Caron is a gambler Read More »
Parking (1985) Jacques Demy, Francis Huster, Laurent Malet, Keiko Itô
This film is an update of Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus, set in the world of 1980s rock. Read More »
The Pied Piper (1972) Jacques Demy, Keith Buckley, Patsy Puttnam, Arthur Hewlett
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Read More »
Donkey Skin (1970) Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin
The education of a princess wrapped in a love story. Read More »
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon
The lives of Geneviève Emery and Guy Foucher of Cherbourg, France are presented in four acts. Read More »
Model Shop (1969) Jacques Demy, Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay
George Matthews is a young man who is having a bittersweet affair with a French divorcée in Los Angeles. Read More »
The Young Girls of Rochefort / Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Jacques Demy followed up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, and Gene Kelly), The Young Girls of Rochefort is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema’s preeminent dreamer.
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