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Jacquot de Nantes

  • 19911991
  • PGPG
  • 1h 58m
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Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
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A boy growing up in Nantes during WW2 around his father's mechanic workshop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of hi... Read allA boy growing up in Nantes during WW2 around his father's mechanic workshop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.A boy growing up in Nantes during WW2 around his father's mechanic workshop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.
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    • Agnès Varda
    • Jacques Demy(memoirs)
    • Agnès Varda
  • Stars
    • Philippe Maron
    • Edouard Joubeaud
    • Laurent Monnier
    • Agnès Varda
    • Jacques Demy(memoirs)
    • Agnès Varda
  • Stars
    • Philippe Maron
    • Edouard Joubeaud
    • Laurent Monnier
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    • 12User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
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    Philippe Maron
    • Jacquot 1
    Edouard Joubeaud
    • Jacquot 2
    Laurent Monnier
    • Jacquot 3
    Brigitte De Villepoix
    • Marilou, la mere
    Daniel Dublet
    • Raymond, le pere
    Clément Delaroche
    • Yvon 1
    Rody Averty
    • Yvon 2
    Hélène Pors
    • Reine 1
    Marie-Sidonie Benoist
    • Reine 2
    Jérémie Bernard
    • Yannick 1
    Cédric Michaud
    • Yannick 2
    Julien Mitard
    • Rene 1
    Jérémie Bader
    • Rene 2
    Guillaume Navaud
    • Cousin Joel
    Fanny Lebreton
    • La petite refugiee
    Céline Guicheteau
    • Copain
    Marc Barto
    • Copain
    Yann Juhel
    • Copain
      • Agnès Varda
      • Jacques Demy(memoirs)
      • Agnès Varda
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    • Trivia
      A tribute to Agnès Varda's husband of 33 years, Jacques Demy. The scenes of Demy's childhood were shot in the actual house that he grew up in.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: In the Line of Fire/Son in Law/Rookie of the Year/Free Willy/Jacquot (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      Papa n'a pas Voulu...
      Music by Mireille

      Lyrics by Jean Nohain

      Performed by Mireille

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    9/10
    All the love to Jacques and to cinema itself
    I know logically that the many, many cut-always to the Demy film clips break up the flow of the dramatizations of his childhood (and those extreme close-ups of the late Demy, his skin showing I believe the lesions from HIV that would take his life too soon are particularly jarring, sometimes Im not sure in a good way). But emotionally, what Varda is doing here is all of a piece, and (Nazis and Occupied France aside) it all makes me wish I could have been a boy/young man in Frnace in the late 30s and 40s.

    In a way, it feels kind of like an excellent midway midway between Cinema Paradiso (which I like but I once called too "shmoopy" and I stick but it) and Au revoir les Enfants (which I love, but has a slightly harder edge and sadder overall feeling). Varda gets natural performances, and it's a striking and cool balance between warmth and a frank realism (ie boys showing a girl their little penises is treated as a cheerful activity, for both sexes).

    And really, you don't get this in cinema practically ever - a husband and wife filmmaking pair, both playful and innovators. where the latter made a literal cinematic love letter to the former after he died (albeit Demy was writing his memoties when he died) - that would make it important by itself. That it is also beautiful to look at in black and white and is edited like a wonderful dream makes it even more special: it's a love letter to her husband, but also to cinema and creative perseverance itself; when he as a boy makes the little hand-cranked projector, it feels like a small miracle.
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    • Release date
      • June 25, 1993 (United States)
      • France
      • French
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    • Filming locations
      • Allée des Tanneurs, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France
    • Production companies
      • Canal+
      • Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
      • Ciné-tamaris
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    • 1 hour 58 minutes
      • Black and White
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