Edition 2024
88'
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2024
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Documentary
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Format:
DCP
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Dialogue:
French
With the support of composer Michel Legrand, director Jacques Demy created some of the most impressive musicals ever made. Florence Platarets rich documentary lets Demy, who passed away in 1990, tell the story himself - in first-person, with each film representing the realisation of a new dream. Drawing on the abundant family archives, the film becomes a journey along the films Demy made, the challenges he faced, and the colourful stories he told.
More than 30 years after his widow Agnès Varda's brilliant Jacquot de Nantes, there is finally a new documentary about Jacques Demy, the director of such colourful musicals as Les parapluies de Cherbourg and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. Director Florence Platarets was given access to the family's vast archive by Demy's son Mathieu and plus-daughter Rosalie. Platarets decided to tell the story in the first person. It was a bold gamble that paid off: as a viewer, you really get the impression of being inside the director's head. Demy 'tells' about his films in chronological order, and thus about himself, because his work is deeply rooted in who he was and how he saw the world. These films were often not what they seemed at first glance. According to Demy, colour and music were used to mask the pessimism at their heart.
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Credits
Directors
Florence Platarets
Composers
Matteo Locasciulli
Cast
Jacques Demy
Scenario
Frédéric Bonnaud
Editors
Jean-Baptiste Blanc
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Dialogue
French
Countries of production
France
Year
2024
Filmography
Florence Platarets
Godard par Godard (2023), Jacques Demy, le rose et le noir (2024)
Technical Specs
Format
DCP
