The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964
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Jacques Demy (born June 5, 1931, Pont-Château, France—died Oct. 27, 1990, Paris) 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 ...
Aug 4, 2014 · Shooting in color for the first time and taking his first full-on stab at the musical genre that he had hinted at with his previous features, the film appears at first to be a case of Demy fully embracing the love of screen artifice and boldly stepping away from the more realistic earlier efforts.
Directed by Jacques Demy • 1961 • France, Italy Starring Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel. Jacques Demy’s crystalline debut gave birth to the fictional universe in which so many of his characters would live, play, and love. It’s among his most profoundly felt films, a tale of crisscrossing lives in Nante...
Aug 26, 2014 · August 26 2014. BUY AT: See more details, packaging, or compare. Synopsis. 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.
Biography: life and films. J acques Demy is one of the great romantics of French cinema. His early films are some of the most intoxicating and viscerally poignant to have ever been made in France, and they continue to enchant and move audiences throughout the world.
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May 22, 2003 · Jacques Demy: personal worlds. I’m trying to create a world in my films. —Jacques Demy . Prologue. Jacques Demy’s films inhabit worlds in themselves—personal and imaginary worlds, self-contained and organic.
Jacques Demy was born on June 5, 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 October 27, 1990 in Paris, France.
