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Jacques Demy (French: [dəmi]; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are well known for their sumptuous look, drawing on Hollywood musicals, fairytales, and opera. His films are also distinguishable by their overlapping continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), self-contained musical universes, and themes like teenaged love, labor rights, and incest.
After working with the animator Paul Grimault and the filmmaker Georges Rouquier, Demy directed his first feature film, Lola, in 1961, with Anouk Aimée playing the eponymous cabaret singer. The Demy universe here emerges full-fledged. Characters burst into song (courtesy of composer and lifelong Demy-collaborator Michel Legrand); iconic Hollywood imagery is lovingly appropriated as in the opening scene with the man in a white Stetson in the Cadillac, daringly set to Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony"); plot is dictated by the director's fascination with fate, and stock themes of chance encounters and long-lost love; and the setting, as with so many of Demy's films, is the French Atlantic coast of his childhood, specifically the seaport town of Nantes.
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967) - Jacques Demy (trailer) | BFI. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI Jacques Demy's stylish and joyously exuberant musical starring Catherine Deneuve and Gene Kelly is the perfect summer release... Watch more on the BFI Player: http://player.bfi.org.uk/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BFI Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmInstitute Follow us on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+britishfilminstitute/
Agnes Varda's decleration of love to her husband Jacques Demy
Retrouvez l'offre du film complet en streaming sur mySkreen: http://www.myskreen.com/film/jeunesse/1256186-peau-d-ane/ Extrait de la chanson de la princesse,"Amour, Amour" dans le film de Jacques Demy, PEAU D'ANE avec Catherine Deneuve. Musique compsée par Michel Legrand. Retrouvez la chaîne dédiée à Jacques Demy: http://www.myskreen.com/demy/ PAROLES: L'amour se porte autour du cou Le cœur est fou Quatre bras serrés qui s'enchaînent L'âme sereine Comme un foulard de blanche laine L'amour s'enroule et puis se noue Amour, Amour m'a rendu fou L'amour fait souvent grand tapage Au plus bel âge Il crie il déchire et il ment Pauvre serment Il fait souffrir tous les amants Qui n'ont pas su tourner la page Amour, Amour n'est pas bien sage Quand il a vécu trop longtemps Le cœur content L'am...
intro du film culte tout en chansons de Jacques Demy
FLASHMOB JACQUES DEMY - LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT
LOLA, la version restaurée du film de 1961, de Jacques Demy. Synopsis : Lola, danseuse de cabaret, élève un garçon dont le père, Michel, est parti depuis sept ans. Elle l'attend, elle chante, danse et aime éventuellement les marins qui passent. Roland Cassard, ami d'enfance retrouvé par hasard, devient très amoureux d'elle. Mais elle attend Michel... Casting : Anouk Aimee, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott et Elina Labourdette Version restaurée par la Fondation Groupama Gan pour le Cinéma et la Fondation Technicolor pour le Patrimoine du Cinéma. http://www.fondation-groupama-gan.com/patrimoine/dernieres-restaurations/lola/