Jacques Demy

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.

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.

Nobody speaks in Jacques Demy’s Palme d’Or winner. Every word is sung to Michel Legrand’s music, right down to the small talk in a car repair garage, and with a twenty-year-old Catherine Deneuve at its heart, it’s the kind of film that shows you why people love cinema. — Geneviève, who lives above her mother’s umbrella shop in Cherbourg, is in love with Guy, a twenty-year-old mechanic, and the two are secretly planning to marry over her mother’s objections. Then Guy is called up and sent to Algeria, and Geneviève discovers she’s pregnant. Her mother’s advice is to say yes to a wealthy merchant who has asked for her hand. — 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

Catherine Deneuve, her sister Françoise Dorléac and a dubbed Gene Kelly star in a dazzlingly colourful musical romance with a murder lurking in the background. Before he shot a single frame, Jacques Demy (“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”) had thousands of shutters across Rochefort repainted. — In Rochefort, on the Atlantic coast, twin sisters teach dance and music and dream of finding romance and love in Paris. Then the summer fair rolls into town, bringing caravans, sailors and a troupe of travelling performers with it. What neither of them knows is that the answer to their dreams is only a few streets away. — Nominated for Best Music Score | Oscars | 1969

Jacques Demy’s debut doesn’t get talked about nearly enough, yet three years before “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” it showed a voice that stood brilliantly apart from the New Wave. Anouk Aimée is dazzling as a cabaret dancer still waiting for the man who left her seven years ago. — A young man is drifting through life in Nantes when he bumps into Lola, a cabaret dancer he knew years ago, and falls in love with her. Lola, though, still can’t stop thinking about the lover who left her seven years earlier. To make some quick money he gets mixed up in diamond smuggling, and that’s just when Lola’s former lover reappears.