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Jacques Demy: Catherine Deneuve
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Jacques Demy brings his romantic sensibility and penchant for witty, battle-of-the-sexes comedies to this absurdist tale about a Parisian driving school instructor (Marcello Mastroianni) who discovers that he's pregnant. Much to the dismay of his girlfriend (Catherine Deneuve), an international media frenzy erupts around the hapless couple. The DVD is letterboxed and includes trailer and English dubbed version. In French with English subtitles. France 1973 92 mins.
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Jacques Demy's bittersweet love story stars Catherine Deneuve as a shop girl who falls in love with Nino Castelnuovo, a gas station attendant, who is soon off to war. Demy's beautiful musical fantasy goes right over the top with the pop-art influenced production design and Michel Legrand's haunting score (every word of dialogue is sung). (91m)
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This hauntingly beautiful melodrama was Demy's first experiment in "film opera." The dialogue is sung to the gorgeous jazz score of frequent collaborator Michel Legrand. Catherine Deneuve stars as Geneviève, a teenager whose mother owns an umbrella shop in coastal France. After her auto mechanic boyfriend Guy is drafted to fight in the Algerian War, Geneviève discovers she is pregnant. The film made an international star of Deneuve, and the song "I Will Wait For You" has since become a standard. Umbrellas was recently restored, enhancing Jean Rabier's vibrant cinematography.
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Demy's screenplay adapts Charles Perrault's 17th-century fable about an idyllic place inhabited by a donkey that emits riches, golden goose-style, for all the castledom to enjoy. The trouble begins when the devoted king (Jean Marais) promises his dying wife (Catherine Deneuve, a Demy favorite) that he'll only take a new queen who's equal to her in beauty. A search of the land finds only one such creature, the king's own daughter (no wonder, since she's ... played by Deneuve), and as you might imagine, that presents a few problems.
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The spirit of Jean Cocteau lingers in every frame of Donkey Skin, a charming fairy tale from musical innovator Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). Notably reigning in the wall-to-wall singing and dancing which filled his previous three films, Demy and musical collaborator Michel Legrand here turn their attention to a well-known European fairy tale from the pen of Charles Perrault (Beauty and the Beast) with the aid of regular Demy muse Catherine Deneuve. The result is odd but utterly endearing, a candy-colored chamber fantasy ripe for rediscovery.
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Catherine Deneuve is the Demy vision of perfection in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. As Genevieve, she is beautiful, youthful and innocent. Nino Castelnuovo is a brooding and bitter Guy who just does manage to escape the self pity created by the loss of his first love. Ann Vernon makes the difficult role of Genevieve’s mother sympathetic.
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