Slideshow
THE WORLD OF JACQUES DEMY
Belgium/Spain, 1995
Written and directed by Agnès Varda
Starring Jacques Demy, Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry
In French with English subtitles
Approx. 90 min.
With THE WORLD OF JACQUES DEMY, Varda has given us a masterfully crafted celebration and study of the love of her longtime husband and fellow filmmaker. Nonchronological and overflowing with passion, the spirit of Varda’s film is captured in a fan letter she includes: “You are a truly original filmmaker. Only you can mix a harmonious cocktail of varying predilections for painting, music, poetry, café philosophy, fairy tales, social critique, opera, American musicals, exotic and spiritual travels. You give expression to a world both true and reinvented. I get high on your films. Excuse my tipsiness. I only wanted to say thank you.”
Presented with support from The George Fasel Memorial Fund for Classic French Cinema
Reviews
“What emerges is not only Demy’s deeply romantic vision of the world, but the steely edge he brought to most of his films: the Algerian war in THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, social conflicts and murder in A ROOM IN TOWN, the extreme poverty of the Middle Ages in THE PIED PIPER, the Vietnam conflict in THE MODEL SHOP.”
– David Stratton, Variety