Jacquot de Nantes (1991)

Directed by

Agnès Varda

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Agnès Varda recreates the childhood of her husband Jacques Demy in Nantes during World War Two. The film shows his early fascination with the crafts of movie making like set design and animation. Brief real scenes of Demy are mixed with the fictional story.

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What happens

Jacquot de Nantes is a 1991 French coming of age and drama film directed by Agnès Varda. 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 filmmaking, such as casting, set design, animation and lighting. The fictional sections set in wartime Nantes are matched with brief documentary interludes involving Demy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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