Jacquot de Nantes
Agnès Varda
Once upon a time a there was a boy who was brought up in a garage where everyone liked to sing. It was 1939, he was 8, and he liked puppets and operetta. Then he wanted to make films, but his father made him study mechanics. This is a film about Jacques Demy and his memories. It was a happy childhood, despite war and the post-war period.
With : Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix, Daniel Dublet, Clément Delaroche, Rody Averty, Hélène Pors
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Patrick Blossier, Agnès Godard , Georges Strouvé
Sound : Nicolas Naegelen
Editing : Marie-Josée Audiard
Music : Joanna Bruzdowicz
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Patrick Blossier, Agnès Godard , Georges Strouvé
Sound : Nicolas Naegelen
Editing : Marie-Josée Audiard
Music : Joanna Bruzdowicz
Production : Canal+, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Ciné Tamaris
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
Jacques Demy spent his childhood and youth in Nantes in his parents' garage. In 1990, Agnès Varda decided to tell this story in a three-part fiction. She reconstructed the quai des tanneurs and the cour Saint-Pierre. Jacquot de Nantes tells the story of Demy's inspiration, his young friend, who gave rise to the character Lola, his visits to the Passage Pommeraye, which he came back to, dreaming after the cinema. Varda said in an interview that “my film is as also the desire to show in an immediate fashion the gap between a scene which is lived and seen and what Jacques made of it”.