Movies: Jacques Demy

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....

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort....

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...

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....

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....

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When Agnès Varda was preparing the film Jacquot de Nantes in 1990, she was able to shoot in the small apartment where Jacques was raised. While emptying the attic, Agnès found pieces of 9.5 mm film, dry and folded, almost broken and two small cardboa...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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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....