Movies: Jacques Demy

A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et elle'. The installation 'Les veuves de Noirmoutier' (or 'The Widows of Noirmoutier') had various women filmed by Varda, young and old, who spoke about thei...

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Writer / director Jacques Demy and actors Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais are interviewed on the set of 'Le peau d'ane'....

This documentary short offers practical advice for mothers on how to take care of their babies, such as feeding and bathing....

This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to deta...

A comedy musical based on the 1967 movie! Delphine and Solange are twins living in Rochefort. They are both looking for love without realizing their ideal partners are very close....

A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways....

Les Horizons Morts is Jacques Demy's first surviving live-action project. A man alone in his crumbling apartment recalls being left by his girl for another man....

From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for did not happen. But, before his death in 1991, three years after learning of his HIV-positive status, he engraved in his literary and photographic wor...

A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema....

Jacques Demy’s ability to enchant audiences was rooted in his personal struggles and doubts as a showman, establishing him as one of French cinema’s greatest artists....

Behind-the scenes documentary on Jacques Demy's 'Trois places pour le 26'...

Short documentary film directed by Jacques Demy in 1946. Forty-two seconds of it appear in director Florence Platarets' 2024 film 'Jacques Demy: Le rose et le noir', along with footage of Mr. Demy showing the short film to one of his grandkids. Total...

With ghostly eyes looking through the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars once lived, Jacques Demy tried to understand this fighter for communal spirituality and his daily torments of mysti...

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