Jacquot de Nantes ( Garage Demy )

Jacquot de Nantes (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Garage Demy
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
118 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Agnès Varda

Written By:
Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda

Actors:
Philippe Maron ..... Jacquot 1
Edouard Joubeaud ..... Jacquot 2
Laurent Monnier ..... Jacquot 3
Brigitte De Villepoix ..... Marilou, la mere
Daniel Dublet ..... Raymond, le pere
Clément Delaroche ..... Yvon 1
Rody Averty ..... Yvon 2
Hélène Pors ..... Reine 1
Marie-Sidonie Benoist ..... Reine 2
Jérémie Bernard ..... Yannick 1
Cédric Michaud ..... Yannick 2
Julien Mitard ..... Rene 1
Jérémie Bader ..... Rene 2
Guillaume Navaud ..... Cousin Joel
Fanny Lebreton ..... La petite refugiee

Synopsis:

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy's childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.

The film is a portrait of the making of an artist; recreating the early life of Varda's husband, Jacques Demy, in Occupied France and his interest in the various crafts associated with film making, such as casting, set design, animation and lighting. The fictional sections set in wartime Nantes are matched with brief documentary interludes involving the dying Demy.

The childhood of director Jacques Demy is recreated by his widow, the filmmaker Agnes Varda. Shot in black-and-white on location in Demy's boyhood home, the film is intercut with actual footage of the young Demy and with scenes from his early films. Philippe Maron stars.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 19 September, 2013.

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