Jacquot de Nantes movie storyline. 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.
Jacquot de Nantes is a 1991 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda and starring Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix, Daniel Dublet, Clément Delaroche, Rody Averty and Hélène Pors. It was screened out of competition at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
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.
Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
Directed by: Agnès Varda
Starring: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix, Daniel Dublet, Clément Delaroche, Rody Averty, Hélène Pors
Screenplay by: Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy
Cinematography by: Patrick Blossier, Agnès Godard, Georges Strouvé
Film Editing by: Marie-Josée Audiard
Costume Design by: Françoise Disle
Set Decoration by: Robert Nardone
Music by: Joanna Bruzdowicz
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Classics
Release Date: September 6, 1991
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