Jacques Demy
1931 - 1990Les Quatre Cents Coups
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
The 400 Blows
Michel Legrand: Sans demi-mesure
Grégory Monro
Michel Legrand, Damien Chazelle
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Jacques Demy
Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Jacques Demy
Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poetand a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close...
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Jacquot
Agnès Varda
Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud
Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy's childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.
Jacquot
Le sabotier du Val de Loire
Jacques Demy
Yves Demy, Georges Rouquier
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 detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
Le Sabotier du Val de Loire
La table tournante
Jacques Demy, Paul Grimault
Paul Grimault, Mathieu Demy
On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens a selection of his favorite shorts
Turning Table
Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda, Joséphine Fradet
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 their widowhood and their residence on the island of Noirmoutier. The film is a montage of these meetings, which are both simple and melancholic.
Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier
Les femmes sont de nature créatives: Agnès Varda
Katja Raganelli
Agnès Varda, Valérie Mairesse
A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film.
Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda