Jacques Demy
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1931-06-05
- Died
- 1990-10-27
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · Pontchâteau, Loire-Atlantique, France
Jacques Demy (June 5, 1931 – October 27, 1990) was a French director and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave. His films are well known for their sumptuous look, drawing on Hollywood musicals, fairy tales, jazz, and opera.
Known for
- Jacques Demy: The Pink and the Black — Self2024
- Viva Varda! — Self (archive footage)2023
- Deneuve, la reine Catherine — Self (archive footage)2022
- Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande — Self (archive footage)2021
- Hommage à Michel Legrand et Jacques Demy au festival Sœurs Jumelles — Self (archive footage)2021
- Jim Morrison: The End — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2021
- Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure — Self (archive footage)2018
- Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2018
- Dans les coulisses: le tournage de 'Trois Places pour le 26' — Self (Archive Footage)2013
- Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là — Self (archive footage)2010
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 194
- Total plays
- 1,230
Jacques Demy (5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of François Truffaut, drawing on musicals, fairytales and the golden age of Hollywood. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jacques+Demy">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries
· 2021 · cited 77,730x
- Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
· 2018 · cited 53,533x
- Global cancer statistics
· 2011 · cited 23,165x
- Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,545x
- Global cancer statistics, 2012
· 2015 · cited 18,591x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1931-06-05 ) 5 June 1931, Pontchâteau , France
- Died
- 27 October 1990 (1990-10-27) (aged 59), Paris , France
- Resting place
- Montparnasse Cemetery , Paris, France
- Occupations
- Film director screenwriter
- Years active
- 1955–1988
- Movement
- French New Wave
- Spouse
- Agnès Varda ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1962 )
- Children
- Rosalie Varda (step-daughter), Mathieu Demy
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 5 June 1931
- Died
- 27 October 1990
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jacques
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Pontchâteau
- Place of death
- 14th arrondissement of Paris
- Spouse
- Agnès Varda
- Child
- Mathieu Demy
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière
Article
Jacques Demy ( French: [ʒak dəmi]; 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).
Career