Jacquot de Nantes
Encyclopedia
Jacquot de Nantes is a 1991 French drama film
directed by Agnès Varda
. It was screened out of competition at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival
.
The film is a portrait of the making of an artist; recreating the early life of Varda's husband, Jacques Demy
, in Occupied France and his obsession with the various crafts associated with film making, such as casting, set design, animation and lighting. The fictional sections set in wartime Nantes are matched with brief documentary interludes involving the dying Demy.
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....
. It was screened out of competition at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival
1991 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*Roman Polanski *Férid Boughedir *Whoopi Goldberg *Margaret Menegoz *Natalia Negoda *Alan Parker *Jean-Paul Rappeneau *Hans Dieter Seidel *Vittorio Storaro...
.
The film is a portrait of the making of an artist; recreating the early life of Varda's husband, Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of François...
, in Occupied France and his obsession with the various crafts associated with film making, such as casting, set design, animation and lighting. The fictional sections set in wartime Nantes are matched with brief documentary interludes involving the dying Demy.
Cast
- 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 MichaudCédric MichaudCédric Michaud is a French marathon speed skater.He was the first non Dutchman after Oleg Bozhev to win the Essent Cup in 2002-03, while he won the cup another time in 2005-06. In that year he also won the Dick van Gangelen Trophy and the Six Days of the Greenery...
- Yannick 2 - Julien Mitard - Rene 1
- Jérémie Bader - Rene 2
- Guillaume Navaud - Cousin Joel
- Fanny Lebreton - La petite refugiee