Jacques Demy

The director and screenwriter Jacques Demy (1931 - 1990) was one of the most approachable filmmakers of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of François Truffaut, drawing on musicals, fairytales and the golden age of Hollywood.

Filmography includes

• Lola (1960)
• La Luxure, episode in Les Sept Péchés Capitaux (1961)
• La Baie des Anges (1962)
• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
• Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
• Model Shop (1969)
• Peau d'Ane (The Donkey Skin or The Magic Donkey) (1970)
• The Pied Piper (1972)
• L'événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune (The slightly pregnant man) (1973)
• Lady Oscar, 1979
• La Naissance du Jour (made for TV, 1979)
• Une chambre en ville ("A room in town") (1982)
• Parking (1982)
• La table tournante (1988)
• Trois places pour le 26 (1988)