Jacques Demy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacques Demy

film director

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1931

Place of Birth: Pontchâteau, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 27-Oct-1990

Profession: screenwriter, actor, lyricist, film director, dialogue writer, film producer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Jacques Demy (French: [?ak d?mi]; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter.
He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.
Demy's films are celebrated for their sumptuous visual style.
Demy's style drew upon such diverse sources as classic Hollywood musicals, the documentary realism of his 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 teenaged love, labor rights, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality.
He is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).