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Jacques Demy ( French pronunciation: [ʒak dəmi]; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.
Jacques Demy est un réalisateur, scénariste, dialoguiste, producteur et parolier français né le 5 juin 1931 à Pontchâteau ( Loire-Atlantique) et mort le 27 octobre 1990 à Paris 14e .
Jacques Demy was born on 5 June 1931 in Pontchâteau, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), A Room in Town (1982) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). He was married to Agnès Varda. He died on 27 October 1990 in Paris, France.
French director Jacques Demy didn’t just make movies—he created an entire cinematic world. Demy launched his glorious feature filmmaking career in the sixties, a decade of astonishing invention in his national cinema.
Jun 18, 2024 · Jacques Demy was a French director best known for his romantic musical-comedy films. Demy studied for two years at France’s Technical School of Photography and Cinematography and then was an assistant to animator Paul Grimault (1952–54) and to director Georges Roquier (1954–57).
Mar 19, 2021 · The cinema’s most enthusiastic lover, Jacques Demy, poured all of himself into a single moving shot in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). We are in the coastal city of Cherbourg, 1957.
French director Jacques Demy didn’t just make movies—he created an entire cinematic world. Demy launched his glorious feature filmmaking career in the sixties, a decade of astonishing invention in his national cinema.
Determined from a young age to become a film director, Jacques Demy (5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) drew on his love for Hollywood musicals and fairytales to create a unique and inspired body of work unlike anything else in cinema history.
May 22, 2003 · Jacques Demy: personal worlds. I’m trying to create a world in my films. —Jacques Demy (1) Prologue. Jacques Demy’s films inhabit worlds in themselves—personal and imaginary worlds, self-contained and organic.
Jul 30, 2014 · A friend and longtime scholar of Jacques Demy ruminates on the great director’s career, as well as the port hometown they shared—which would become a magical movie location.
