Jacques Demy

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Jacques Demy
Demy in 1956
Born	(1931-06-05)5 June 1931 Pontchâteau, France
Died	27 October 1990(1990-10-27) (aged 59) Paris, France
Resting place	Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France
Occupations	Film director screenwriter
Years active	1955–1988
Movement	French New Wave
Spouse	Agnès Varda ​ (m. 1962)​
Children	Rosalie Varda (step-daughter) Mathieu Demy

Jacques Demy (French: [ʒak dəmi]; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. 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).