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Birth Name: Jacques Louis Raymond Marcel Demy

Born: 5 June 1931 Died: 27 October 1990

Country of origin: France

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Agnès Varda


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The Idiot's Guide To Famous (Classic) Filmmakers (85 items)
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Description: Jacques Demy was a French director, lyricist and screenwriter. 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 ... (more)
Tags: Screenwriter (1), Born June 5 (1), Died Aged 59 (1), Aviator (1), Died Young (1), Died 1990 (1), Born 1931 (1), Francophone (1), French (1), Filmmaker (1), Director (1), Producer (1), Oscar Nominee (1), Nouvelle Vague (1), Writer (1), Pilot (1), European (1)
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3. Lola
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4. Donkey Skin (1970)
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69 Watched
5. Bay of Angels (1963)
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Directors I Regard Highly (15 person items)

" Favorite Film Seen (8) The Young Girls of Rochefort - 9/10 Lola - 8/10 A Room in Town - 8/10 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - 7/10 Model Shop - 7/10 Donkey Skin - 6/10 Le bel indifférent - 6/10 The Pied Piper - 6/10"