JACQUOT DE NANTES

JACQUOT DE NANTES, 1991
France | DCP, Color, 118' | French
Cast: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier

Jacquot de Nantes depicts the legendary director Jacques Demy, known for his films such as Lola, Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Parapluies de Cherbourg) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les demoiselles de Rochefort), and his childhood and teenager years spent in the town of Nantes. Besides an expose of Demy’s life, the film is Agnès Varda’s love letter to her husband, whom she lost a few months after the film. Little Jacquot (short for Jacques) lives above the auto repair shop owned by his family. Despite his very young age, Jacquot dreams of cinema and directing films, and buys a tiny camera to shoot his first films. Soon after, he will set off to Paris in order to register at a film school.