CINEMAKITCHEN [03]

les parapluies de cherbourg

I'm trying to create a world in my films —Jacques Demy

Guy Foucher
I got drafted this morning, and I'll be away for two
years. We'll talk about marriage later. With the war
in Algeria, it will be a long time before I can come
back.

Geneviève Emery
But I would never be able to live without you!

“At the start of his career, critics and the public hailed French director Jacques Demy for his poignant, poetic, lighter-
than-air romantic fairy tales, characterized by equal parts filmic grace and Gallic sadness. Not much later and for
exactly the same qualities, critics reviled him and the public stayed away, neither seeming to care that his confections
revealed a more emotionally ambiguous world than is usually delivered by romance.” - Andrew Dowler

Jacques Demy Filmography

Le Sabotier du Val de Loire (1955)

documentary short
Le Bel indifférent (1957) short
Musée Grévin (1958) short
La Mère et l'enfant (1959) short
Ars (1959) short
Lola (1961)
“La Luxure” episode of Les Sept
péchés capitaux
La Baie des Anges (1962)
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
(1964)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort(1967)
Model Shop (1969)
Peau d'âne (Donkey Skin) (1970)
The Pied Piper (1971)
L'Événément le plus important
depuis l'homme a marché sur la
lune (1973)
Lady Oscar (1978)
La Naissance du jour (1980)
telefeature
Une Chambre en ville (1982)
Parking (1985)
La Table tournante (1988)
Trois places pour le 26 (1988)