Jacquot
Drama
Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy's childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.
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A tender, sun-dappled look at a childhood fascination with cinema. It feels like a warm memory, a gentle unfolding of dreams amidst the everyday magic of family and early artistic stirrings.
nostalgicwhimsicalcharmingmelancholicsteadyFrench New Waveautobiographicallyricalcoming-of-agechildhoodartistic callingmemoryfamily
biographyfilmmakingwoman directornantes1940s1930smemoiroccupied francechildren in wartime
