Showing posts with label Demy (Jacques). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Demy (Jacques). Show all posts
8 June 2022

Jacques Demy, Nantes (44)

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For many, the film director Jacques Demy is a highly important figure in the history of Nantes, and certainly the Médiathèque is named after...
5 May 2022

Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy in La Guérinière, Noirmoutier, Vendée (85)

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Film directors Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy bought a derelict windmill in La Guérinière, L'ile de Noirmoutier, which they to some extent...
4 May 2022

Le Mur tombé du ciel #5: Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda and Anouk Aimée

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Jacques Demy – a major film director and a major person born in Nantes – is sadly on the point of being almost forgotten in the city he love...
12 February 2022

Jacques Demy's Une chambre en ville | A Room in Town (1982)

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Set in 1955 in the middle of a strike in Nantes, Une chambre en ville  is nevertheless not a political film. But it is entirely narrated in ...
27 December 2020

Jacques Demy's Lola (1961)

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This dazzling black and white film  – with pre-echoes of both Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg  (1964) and Les Demoiselles de Rochefor...
26 December 2020

Jacques Demy's Peau d’Âne | Donkey Skin (1965)

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  Jacques Demy's Peau d’Âne is a glorious, and very faithful in terms of the story, recreation of Charles Perrault's fairy story Pe...
7 February 2020

Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort | The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

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I normally hate musicals and have always thought they're for people with low attention spans: thin piece of narrative, then largely i...
5 November 2019

Agnès Varda's Les Plages d'Agnès | The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

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Les Plages d'Agnès (which inevitably translates terribly in English) is Varda's autobiography, but of course a very quirky one: i...