Known For

Jacques Demy is known for:

  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
    This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
    Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. They are both looking for love, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close...
  • Donkey Skin
    A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.

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