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Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy

French director


Dead at 59 years
Birthday
Friday
He is born 92 years, 9 months and 24 days ago
Death date
Saturday

He is dead since 33 years, 5 months and 2 days

Cause of death: AIDS

Birthplace
Pontchâteau, France
Nationality: french France
Categorie
Directors » New wave
Birth sign: Gemini
Chinese birth sign: Goat

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Jacques Demy (French pronunciation: [ʒak dəmi]; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) 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 intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).

Source : Wikipedia