Jacques Demy

From Vero - Wikipedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Template:Infobox person

Jacques Demy (Template:IPA; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy 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).

After working with the animator Paul Grimault and the filmmaker Georges Rouquier, Jacques Demy directed his first feature film, *Lola*, in 1961, with Anouk Aimée playing the lead role.Template:Cite web

He is perhaps best known for his musical *Les Parapluies de Cherbourg* (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964), with a score by Michel Legrand. The film is unusual in that its dialogue is entirely sung, and it is celebrated for its vivid color palette and integration of song into the narrative.Template:Cite web

Demy created a cinéma-style noted for recurring characters, romantic themes, and visual poetry, notably by emphasizing fate, chance encounters, long-lost love, and strong musical and color-driven aesthetics.Template:Cite web

Personal life

As a student, Demy did not learn any foreign languages. In the 1960s, with the help of some classes, internships, and spending some time in the United States, he learned English. At the time of the Anouchka project, which took many years to complete, he also learned Russian.<ref>Témoignage d'Hélène Demy dans L'Univers de Jacques Demy. He admired his sister because she had become an English professor.</ref> In the early 1970s, taking after the example of Michel Legrand, he earned his private pilot's license for passenger planes.<ref>His pilot’s license is presented in L'Univers de Jacques Demy.</ref>

Jacques Demy was bisexual.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1958, Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda met at a short film festival in Tours. The two married in 1962. They had a son together, Mathieu Demy (born 1972), and Demy also adopted Varda's daughter, Rosalie Varda (born 1958), whom she had with Antoine Bourseiller in a previous relationship.<ref>Mathilde Blottière, “Les films de Jacques Demy enfin édités en DVD”, Télérama, 15 November 2008.</ref> Together, Demy and Varda owned a home in Paris and another property with an old mill on the Noirmoutier Island in Vendée, where the shots of Demy on a beach in Jacquot de Nantes (1991) were taken. The film is a version of Demy's autobiographical notebooks, an account of Demy's childhood and his lifelong love of theatre and cinema. Varda paid homage to her husband in Jacquot de Nantes, Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans (1993), and L’Univers de Jacques Demy (1995).

Demy died on October 27, 1990, at the age of 59.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Interview, Têtu, November 2008.</ref> Originally, it was reported that he died of cancer,<ref>Comme au cinéma, 20 September 2005.</ref> but in 2008 Varda revealed that Demy died of HIV/AIDS.<ref>Mathilde Blottière, “Les films de Jacques Demy enfin édités en DVD”, Télérama, 15 November 2008.</ref><ref>“Rencontre avec Agnès Varda”, lekinorama.com, 5 December 2008.</ref><ref>Madame Figaro, article from 29 March 2019.</ref> He was buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year English title Director Writer Original title
1961 Lola Template:Yes Template:Yes
1963 Bay of Angels Template:Yes Template:Yes La Baie des Anges
1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Template:Yes Template:Yes Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
1967 The Young Girls of Rochefort Template:Yes Template:Yes Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
1969 Model Shop Template:Yes Template:Yes
1970 Donkey Skin Template:Yes Template:Yes Peau d'Âne
1972 The Pied Piper Template:Yes Template:Yes
1973 A Slightly Pregnant Man Template:Yes Template:Yes L'événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune
1979 Lady Oscar Template:Yes Template:Yes
1982 A Room in Town Template:Yes Template:Yes Une chambre en ville
1985 Parking Template:Yes Template:Yes
1988 The Turntable Template:Yes Template:Yes La table tournante
1988 Three Seats for the 26th Template:Yes Template:Yes Trois places pour le 26

Short films

Year English title Director Writer Original title Notes
1951 Dead Horizons Template:Yes Template:Yes Les horizons morts
1956 The clog maker of the Loire Valley Template:Yes Template:Yes Le sabotier du Val de Loire Documentary short
1957 The Beautiful Indifferent Template:Yes Template:No Le bel indifférent
1958 Grévin Museum Template:Yes Template:No Musée Grévin
1959 Mother and Child Template:Yes Template:No La mère et l'enfant
1959 Ars Template:Yes Template:Yes Ars Documentary short
1962 Lust Template:Yes Template:Yes La luxure An episode in The Seven Deadly Sins

Television

Year English title Director Writer Original title Notes
1980 Break of Day Template:Yes Template:Yes La Naissance du Jour Part of Le roman du samedi. Television movie.

Awards and honors

On 5 June 2019, on Demy's 88th birthday, he was honored with a Google Doodle.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

References

Template:Reflist

Template:Commons category 

 | name/{{#if:{{#invoke:ustring|match|1=0218840|2=^nm}}
   | Template:Trim/
   | nm0218840/
   }}
 | {{#if: {{#property:P345}}
   | name/Template:First word/
   | find?q=%7B%7B%23if%3A+Jacques+Demy%0A++++++%7C+Jacques+Demy%0A++++++%7C+%5B%5B%3ATemplate%3APAGENAMEBASE%5D%5D%0A++++++%7D%7D&s=nm
   }}
 }}{{#if:  0218840 {{#property:P345}} | {{#switch: 
 | award | awards = awards Awards for | biography | bio = bio Biography for
 }}}} {{#if: Jacques Demy
 | Jacques Demy
 | Template:PAGENAMEBASE
 }}] at IMDb{{#if: 0218840{{#property:P345}}
 | Template:EditAtWikidata
 | Template:Main other

}}{{#switch:{{#invoke:string2|matchAny|^nm.........|^nm.......|nm|.........|source=0218840|plain=false}} 

 | 1 | 3 =  Template:Main otherTemplate:Preview warning
 | 4 = Template:Main otherTemplate:Preview warning

}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:IMDb name with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|showblankpositional=1| 1 | 2 | id | name | section }}

Template:Jacques Demy Template:French New Wave

Template:Authority control

Retrieved from "https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?title=Jacques_Demy&oldid=644625"