FILM DIRECTOR

Jacques Demy

1931 - 1990

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Jacques Demy (French: [ʒak dəmi]; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Demy is the 179th most popular film director (down from 137th in 2019), the 1,198th most popular biography from France (down from 969th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Film Director.

Jacques Demy is most famous for his musical films, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jacques Demy ranks 179 out of 2,041. Before him are Roland Emmerich, Sergio Corbucci, Spike Lee, Alice Guy-Blaché, Robert Rodriguez, and Andrei Konchalovsky. After him are Robert Wise, Victor Sjöström, Alan J. Pakula, Kathryn Bigelow, Ed Wood, and Sean Baker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Jacques Demy ranks 69. Before him are Faten Hamama, Ettore Scola, Syukuro Manabe, Lucia Bosè, Arawa Kimura, and Jean-Claude Carrière. After him are Ken Takakura, Alfred Brendel, Rita Moreno, Stanislav Grof, Klaus Hasselmann, and Arata Isozaki. Among people deceased in 1990, Jacques Demy ranks 40. Before him are Bruno Bettelheim, Rex Harrison, Manly P. Hall, Bruno Kreisky, Lawrence Durrell, and Sergio Corbucci. After him are Boris Shcherbina, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Yiannis Ritsos, Ugo Tognazzi, Angelo Schiavio, and Capucine.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Demy ranks 1,198 out of 6,770. Before him are Ferdinand Buisson (1841), Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (1401), Paulinus of Nola (354), Anne L'Huillier (1958), Raymond Radiguet (1903), and Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805). After him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (1523), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Alain de Benoist (1943), Bertran de Born (1140), and La Hire (1390).

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