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- 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.
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Jun 29, 2024 · Using unconventional techniques, such as breaking the fourth wall, jumpcuts, on-location shooting and handheld filming, they transformed cinema. While the French New Wave stood in opposition to the mainstream, these directors were still greatly influenced by many elements of classic Hollywood.
- Anna Biller explains how Jacques Demy influenced her work
'The Love Witch' director Anna Biller is hugely inspired by...
- Anna Biller explains how Jacques Demy influenced her work
- Prologue
- Career
- Personal Vision
- Critical Reception in France
- Critical Response Elsewhere
- Great Director, Naïf, Or Both?
Jacques Demy’s films inhabit worlds in themselves—personal and imaginary worlds, self-contained and organic. Demy’s legacy may lack consistent quality, but not consistent personal vision: while his contemporaries abandoned poetry for politics, Demy remained faithful to the romanticism of his boyhood projects. His fairy tale themes, his flair with l...
Born in Pontchâteau, on France’s Atlantic coast, in 1931, Jacques Demy enjoyed a playful childhood in Nantes, where he directed animated and live-action shorts and studied fine arts. After training with the famed animator Paul Grimault, he assisted the documentarian Georges Rouquier, with whom he produced his first documentary short, Le Sabotier du...
Again, if Demy’s career lacks consistency, this results more from an inconsistency of quality than from any lack of personal vision. In the words of critic Terrence Rafferty, Demy aimed “to seduce, not to challenge” or, in his own words, to disguise reality, “masking pessimism”. (5) For each film, Demy constructed an elaborate mise-en-scène as a wo...
Demy met an uneven critical response in France. The Cahiers crowd, particularly Godard, praised the poetics of his early films. Godard included Lola in his Top Ten List of 1961 and praised Demy’s cultural literacy, which he found rare among their generation of filmmakers. (8) Indeed, Lola contains rich moments of intertextuality, from its title, ev...
Demy also found a fickle reception in the U.S. Andrew Sarris called La Baie des Anges “a piece of cinematic vaudeville”, (16) while Pauline Kael called it a “magical, whirling little film…almost an emanation of Moreau.” (17) Kael also confided that she found Les Parapluies “lovely…original and fine…One of the sad things about our times, I think, is...
While Varda’s celebrity has undoubtedly aided Demy’s career, it may also have contributed to Demy’s critical underestimation. Aside from Jacquot, Demy and Varda always maintained “a working partnership only in the loosest sense”. (24) Yet they did influence each other’s working methods and styles. In particular, Varda’s Le Bonheur (Happiness, 1964)...
Nov 4, 2019 · Against the background of an often violent Nantes dockers’ strike, a passionate affair begins between a laid-off docker about to break up with his pregnant girlfriend, and his landlady’s daughter, who walks the streets seeking sex with strangers as a way of wreaking revenge on her oppressively possessive husband.
Oct 23, 2024 · Jacques Demy was a French director best known for his romantic musical-comedy films. Demy studied for two years at France’s Technical School of Photography and Cinematography and then was an assistant to animator Paul Grimault (1952–54) and to director Georges Roquier (1954–57).
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Feb 21, 2024 · 'The Love Witch' director Anna Biller is hugely inspired by French filmmaker Jacques Demy, who made movies like 'Donkey Skin' and 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'.
French director Jacques Demy didn’t just make movies—he created an entire cinematic world. Demy launched his glorious feature filmmaking career in the sixties, a decade of astonishing invention in his national cinema.
Influenced perhaps by Max Ophuls (to whom his first feature was dedicated), Demy keeps his camera in almost constant movement, smoothly and fluidly sweeping around or along with the characters. The result is a camera style that is continually responding or adjusting to the characters, altering relationships between them, bringing them together ...
