72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Jacques Demy
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Films
Classic retrospective. JACQUES DEMY
Classic retrospective. JACQUES DEMY
Jacques Demy
France
26 min.
Short film
Everyday life during the autumn of an elderly clog-marker, his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's craft is described with love and attention to detail while reflecting, at the same time, on the passage of life. The film received an Honorable Mention (Short Documentary or Cultural Film) at the 1956 Berlinale.
Jacques Demy
France
29 min.
Short film
In a hotel room, a jealous and furious woman, first waits for and then reproaches her young and unfaithful lover, who treats her with indifference.
Jacques Demy
France
18 min.
Short film
A portrait of Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney, the priest of Ars, based on his life and his texts and preaching.
La Colère: Eugène Ionesco, Sylvain Dhomme, Max Douy
L’Envie: Edouard Molinaro
La Paresse: Jean-Luc Godard
La Luxure: Jacques Demy
L’Orgueil: Roger Vadim
La Gourmandise: Philippe de Broca
L’Avarice: Claude Chabrol
France-Italy
115 min.
Paul tells Bernard about the misunderstandings when, as a child who was preparing his First Communion, he mistook the word luxury for lust. Both look for lust in a book on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and come to see naked the women that surround them in a café.
Jacques Demy
France-Italy
90 min.
Lola, a cabaret entertainer in Nantes, has been waiting seven years for the return of her lover, Michel, who left to make his fortune without knowing that she was pregnant. After a brief fling with Frankie, an American sailor, she meets Roland, a childhood friend. Captivated by Lola, Roland declares his love for her; but Lola still loves Michel and rejects him.
Jacques Demy
France
82 min.
Jean Fournier, a young Parisian, is introduced to gambling by his friend Caron. As luck favours him, Jean plans to spend his vacation gambling at Nice. There he meets Jackie Demaistre, a compulsive gambler who has sacrificed her husband and child to gaming. Together they win huge sums of money and they leave for Monte Carlo. After several ups and downs in their fortune, Jean, sincerely in love with Jackie, tries to convince her to give up her obsession.
Jacques Demy
France-Germany
83 min.
Geneviève, a seventeen-year-old girl whose mother has an umbrella shop, is in love with Guy, a twenty-year-old mechanic. Guy and Geneviève want to marry, but her mother does not approve of it. Guy leaves for his two-year military service in Algeria. Pregnant, with hardly any news from Guy, Geneviève allows her mother to persuade her to marry Roland Cassard, a wealthy diamond merchant.
Winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, 1964.
Jacques Demy
France
120 min.
A group arrive in Rochefort to set up their fairground attraction. They meet twin sisters Solange and Delphine who teach music and dance. Their mother, Yvonne, owns a café and regrets having left her old lover, Simon Dame. One of the customers is Maxence, a sailor who has painted the portrait of his ideal woman who turns out to be Delphine. Simon Dame has returned to Rochefort and receives the visit of famous musician Andy Miller, an old friend from his youth.
Jacques Demy
France-USA
90 min.
George Matthews is an architect who is out of work, lives with his actress girlfriend and is waiting to be drafted to go to Vietnam. To prevent a financing company from repossessing his car he goes to his friend for the money. He gets it, but finds a mysterious and elegant woman whom he follows to a "model shop" where it is possible to photograph the semi-nude "models" for a very high price.
Jacques Demy
France
89 min.
A king lives happily with his beautiful wife and his daughter; he also owns a donkey that gives him a great amount of gold. But the queen becomes ill and, before she dies, makes the king promise that he will only marry a woman more beautiful than she is. After an eager search the only woman who fills this requisite is the king's own daughter. The princess then goes to her godmother, the Lilac Fairy, and together they devise several stratagems to prevent the marriage.
Jacques Demy
UK-USA
90 min.
Summer, 1349. The Black Death ravages Europe. A group of travelling actors is on its way to Hamelin. Along the way they are joined by a minstrel who plays the flute. The rats arrive at Hamelin. The piper offers to free the city from the rats, but once he does it the burgomaster refuses to pay.
Jacques Demy
France-Italy
94 min.
Marco and Irène live together. Marco has a driving school and Irène a hairdressing salon. Marco is not feeling well so he goes to the doctor, who sends him to a gynaecologist who confirms that he is four months pregnant. Marco becomes a celebrity and decides to marry Irène.
Jacques Demy
Japan-France
124 min.
Oscar François de Jarjayes is born female, but her father, who wants a son and heir and already has five daughters, raises her as a boy together with André, her nanny's grandson. When they grow up, Oscar becomes an officer of the Queen's guards and André her groom. André is in love with Oscar, but it takes time for her to realize that she loves him too. The behaviour of the aristocracy lead up to the Revolution and they will be on different sides at first.
Jacques Demy
France
90 min.
Writer Colette spends the summer of 1927 in her house near Saint-Tropez; she watches her youth fade and reflects on her life. One last man arrives and she wonders if she should take up the challenge of the relationship.
Jacques Demy
France
90 min.
During a workers' strike in Nantes in 1955, François Guilbaud, a steel worker, rents a room from Madame Langlois, an aristocratic widow. She has a daughter, Edith, who is married to the rich, impotent, jealous and violent owner of a television shop. One day that she runs away from her husband and is prostituting herself out of spite, François meets her. They fall madly in love.
Jacques Demy
France
95 min.
Orpheus is a pop star who is preparing a concert. One day he suffers an electric shock during rehearsal and arrives in the world of the dead, but they tell him his time hasn?t come and he returns to the land of the living. When his partner Eurydice dies of an overdose, Orpheus desperately makes his way back to the other side to find her.
Jacques Demy
France
106 min.
Singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, where he spent his childhood and youth, to present a show on his life and career. Still living in Marseilles is a baroness, an old flame of Yves, with whom he had a daughter, Marion, of whose existence he knows nothing. Marion successfully replaces one of the actresses in the show and Yves starts courting her.
Paul Grimault, Jacques Demy
France
78 min.
Paul Grimault tells a little clown the stories of his short films and teaches him how an inanimate object is animated. A combination of real shots and animation, the characters that have emerged from the film reels come together in front of a screen to watch Le Petit Soldat.
Agnès Varda
France
118 min.
Jacquot Demy is an 11 year-old boy. His father has a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. They?re happy and they like to sing and watch films. Jacquot, fascinated by shows of all kinds (plays, films, puppets), buys a camera to make his first amateur film. A casting back of the eyes to Jacques Demy?s childhood and his early attraction to film directed by Agnès Varda, with whom Demy shared his life from 1958 until his death in 1990.
Agnès Varda
France
64 min.
Shots from the set of The Young Girls of Rochefort (which Agnès Varda herself restored in 1996) mixed with others from the celebration organised by the city of Rochefort for the film?s 25th anniversary, attended by Varda and part of the team to take a look back at the great time they had while shooting. There is a floating presence of two ghosts: that of Demy (second homage by Varda to her husband) and that of Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve?s sister.
Agnès Varda
France-Belgium-Spain
90 min.
A documentary on the life and work of Jacques Demy with interviews of people who knew him and archive footage of the man himself, seen through the eyes of his widow, Agnès Varda. A number of other people who never actually met Demy personally explain what the deceased moviemaker?s films meant to them.
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