The second World War has just ended. A 14-year-old boy in short trousers stares through a shop window at a Pathé Baby home-movie camera. Jacques Demy is from a modest family: his father Raymond is a ...

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This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir (“The Truman Show”) on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Set at the turn of ...

“French director Jacques Demy didn’t just make movies—he created an entire cinematic world.” So say the good folks at Criterion over at the page for the recently released box set of perhaps the most ...

Broken hearts. Lives spent waiting for lost loves. An ax murderer. A father who desperately wants to marry his daughter. War tearing people apart. Class tearing people apart. Gambling addictions.

Of all the filmmakers associated with the French New Wave, Jacques Demy is the toughest to characterize. Not because he lacked a distinctive style—quite the opposite, in fact. But rather because his ...

In 1967, Deneuve reunited with Demy and composer Michel Legrand for The Young Girls of Rochefort (June 30 at 6 p.m.), a similarly idiosyncratic effort whose wistful mood got a giddy boost by the ...

Jacques Demy’s first films, from the nineteen-sixties—starting with “Lola” and including the musical melodrama “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”—were among the era’s prime works of stylish and stylized ...