Jacques Demy
Date of Birth: 05 Jun 1931
Country: France
Biography: Jacques Demy was born on June 5, 1931 in Pontchâteau, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and Une Chambre en Ville (1982). He was married to Agnès Varda. He died on October 27, 1990 in Paris, France.
Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Actor), 20 (Director), 16 (Writer)
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Jean is a clerk in a bank. His colleague Caron is a gambler and gives him the virus. In the casinos, Jean meets Jackie. Their love affair will follow their luck at the roulette. (imdb)
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Geneviève, 17, lives with her widow mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She and Guy, an auto mechanic, are in love and want to marry (imdb)
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A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry a man she doesn't love. (imdb)
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Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano... (imdb)
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In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens: she's Lola, now a cabaret dancer... (imdb)
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Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father who longed for a son and a heir insisted she be raised as a boy, alongside, Andre Grandier, the grandson of her nanny. When Oscar matures into an adult she is selected to be captain of the guards at the Palace of Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Oscar soon learns the problems of the monarchy and the plight of the poor which will eventually lead to the French Revolution... (imdb)
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George Matthews is a young man who is having a bittersweet affair with a French divorcée in Los Angeles. Waiting to be drafted, he is unable to commit himself to anything or anybody, including his girlfriend Georgia. While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop" (an establishment which rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers). (imdb)
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A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. (imdb)
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Montand, in search of an old flame in Marseilles, gets drawn into the production of a musical.
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Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. (imdb)
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Le sabotier du Val de Loire (1955) - Short Film
A look into the life of a family of clog-makers in France's Loire Valley. (movies.yahoo.com)
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Orphée is a hugely popular pop singer deeply in love with his wife Eurydice. During a rehearsal, he dies of a short circuit and is send to hell. Once there, Hades realize he's been taken by mistake, decides to give him a second chance and send him back to earth. But a few days later, Eurydice dies of a drug overdose. Orphée decides to go down to hell to take her back...
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A male Parisian driving school owner who goes to see his doctor and complains of feeling run down is pronounced four months pregnant. When the diagnosis is confirmed by a specialist, the result is an international media frenzy. (imdb)
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Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. (imdb)
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Le bel indifférent (1957) - Short Film
A woman and a man sits in a room with all red walls. The woman, in a a black dress sitting on white sheets, talks while the man seems indifferent. Based on Jean Cocteau's play.
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La naissance du jour (1980) - TV Movie
This is a French TV film based on the often-studied short novel by Colette more or less based on the writer's own autumn years. The meditative film feels a bit like a French Enchanted April as Colette (Delorme) spends her afternoons in the countryside of Saint Tropez writing outside about her transient attempts to love over the years, only to find her romantic yearnings awakened by the arrival of the younger Vial, who apparently has a severe aversion to shirts. (mondo-digital.com)
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While working at his editing table cartoon maker Paul Grimault is visited by a little clown, the star of his movie "Le Roi et l'Oiseau". Paul, who is delighted, shows his guest several clips of his other films. Later on, they are joined by other animated characters created by Grimault until Anouk Aimée finally appears, in the flesh this time. (imdb)
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La luxure (1961) - Short Film
Two playful young men about town take a break from ogling the ladies passing by, to reminisce about how one of them first learned the meaning of Lechery as a schoolboy. (imdb)
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