Univers de Jacques Demy, L' (1995)

Regisseur:

Agnès Varda

Drehbuchautor:

Agnès Varda (writer)

Premierendatum:

22. September 1995 (France)

Genre:

Dokumentarfilm

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title

Nutzerkommentare:

An engaging amble through Demy's scrapbook

Besetzung

Anouk Aimée	...	Herself
Richard Berry	...	Himself
Nino Castelnuovo	...	Himself
Danielle Darrieux	...	Herself
Catherine Deneuve	...	Herself
Françoise Fabian	...	Herself
Harrison Ford	...	Himself
Claude Mann	...	Himself
Marc Michel	...	Himself
Jeanne Moreau	...	Herself
Jacques Perrin	...	Himself
Michel Piccoli	...	Himself
Dominique Sanda	...	Herself
Anne Vernon	...	Herself
Caroline Bongrand	...	Une demoiselle de l'Allée Raffet

Alternativ:

The Universe of Jacques Demy
The World of Jacques Demy
Welt ist ein Chanson - Das Universum des Jacques Demy, Die (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

90 Min

Produktionsland:

France | Belgium | Spain

Sprache:

Französisch | Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss | Farbe

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

UK:15

Firma:

Canal+ España

Querbezüge:

Enthält ausschnittsweise Lola (1961)

An engaging amble through Demy's scrapbook

Documentary The World of Jacques Demy aka L'Univers de Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda's second film about her husband (after her semi-fictionalised film about his childhood, Jacquot de Nantes), eschews a chronological approach for a more scrapbook like amble through his career, which is one way of avoiding the inevitable decline of his career and ending on a high. Utilizing archive interviews, on-set footage, reuniting co-stars and hearing from fans (mostly teenage girls), surprises abound, such as footage of Demy and Harrison Ford hanging around while shooting tests for his forgotten US sequel to Lola, Model Shop (Ford was replaced by Gary Lockwood at the studio's insistence Ford would never be a box-office star) or a chubby Jim Morrison visiting the set of Peau D'Ane. While it offers ample inadvertent examples of why much of his post-60s work was less than successful – many of the more obscure films look simply awful - it does make you want to see the odd lesser-known work like the surprisingly dark looking The Pied Piper, and the 90 minutes pass surprisingly easily.