Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy's tribute to the classic American Musical, three years after his triumphus "The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg", is an audiovisual rainbow, full of color, beauty and the enchanting presence of brothers Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac. — Two twin sisters who teach dance and music in the coastal town of Rochefort dream of romance and love in Paris. What they don’t know is that the upcoming summer festival taking place in their hometown will make their dreams come true. — Nominated for Best Music Score | Oscars | 1969

In the casino world of Nice, Jacques Demy sets the action of one of his most realistic, dark and emotionally penetrating works. With Jeanne Moreau in one of her greatest roles and an enchanting score by the legendary Michel Legrand. — Jean is a young bank employee who is pushed into gambling by his colleague, Caron. He gives up everything and devotes himself to the game, until in the casinos he meets and falls in love with Jackie, a divorced mother who rarely visits her child. She warns him that her passion for gambling can only get worse.

Jacques Demy's first film hasn’t earned the accolades it deserves. And yet, the black-and-white "Lola" was a telltale sign that Demy, amidst a sweeping French New Wave, had his own distinct, brilliant voice. Here, he employs it to talk about the ephemeral nature of love. — In Nantes, France, a young man goes through life without purpose until he chances upon Lola, a cabaret dancer he knew a long time ago. He falls in love with her, but Lola still muses over her former lover who abandoned her 7 years ago. The man gets involved in diamond smuggling in an attempt to get rich, but eventually Lola’s previous partner shows up, against all odds.

In his third collaboration with his muse, Catherine Deneuve, following the emblematic Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort, Jacques Demy brings to screen a gorgeous, colorful and dark under its dazzlingly bright surface fairy tale by Charles Perrault. — Once upon a time, in a magical and fairytale land, the King decides to marry his daughter, but she, with the help of a fairy godmother, will try to flee and escape the kingdom and the wedding.

Awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1963 for having an extraordinary moment in the history of cinema, a technicolor musical with Michel Legrand’s wonderful compositions, as magical as cinema and as bittersweet as life. — A young girl lives with her widowed mother, the owner of an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a twenty-year-old car mechanic with whom she plans to secretly get married. However, after announcing it to her mother, she forbids her to do so. When the young man decides to present himself in the army and departs for Algeria, the girl discovers that she is pregnant. After her mother’s insistence, she is forced to accept a precious stone dealer’s marriage proposal. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 1965 Nominated for Best Original Song | Oscars | 1966 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 1964 OCIC Award | Cannes Film Festival | 1964