Jacques Demy was a French director, lyricist, 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 celebrated for their visual style. Demy's style drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the documentary realism of his New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity, lush musical scores and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).
Jacques Demy
Active - 1951 - 2023 |
Birth - Jun 5, 1931 |
Death - Oct 27, 1990 |
Genres - Drama, Documentary, Romance, Music, Biography
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Subgenres - Musical, Biographical Film, Comedy Drama, Historical Fiction, LGBT-Related Film
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