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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy Catherine Deneuve stars in this sumptuously photographed romantic musical of two lovers who are split up by the Algerian war. The girl marries another when she discovers she is pregnant. He also marries; yet they meet again. All dialog is sung; with haunting music by Michel LeGrand and lyrics by Demy, including the song, "I Will Wait for You." "A masterpiece! More beautiful and more startling than ever!" (New York Daily News). "The kind of movie that audiences will remember all their lives" (Chicago Tribune). French with English subtitles. France/Germany, 1964, 92 mins. DVD | $44.95
Donkey Skin Jacques Demy Catherine Deneuve stars in this unusual and exquisitely realized fairy tale from director Jacques Demy, based on a story by 17th century author Charles Perrault (Cinderella). Before the queen of a enchanted kingdom dies, she makes her husband promise that he'll never marry anyone less beautiful than her. The only woman who fits this description, however, is the king's daughter (Deneuve, who also plays the queen). The frightened young girl enlists the help of a fairy godmother to save her from this marriage, and with her godmother's help she flees the kingdom in her father's prize donkey suit. An enchanting treat for both children and adults, Demy's film is "gentle, charming, and opulently beautiful" (The New York Times). The DVD is letterboxed, includes original trailer, interview with Mag Bodard, The Illustrated Peau d'Ane featurette, and English and Spanish subtitle options. In French with English subtitles. France, 1971, 90 mins. DVD | $44.95
Lola Jacques Demy Jacques Demy's Lola is a precisely constructed film about love, "with an almost balletic sense of rhythm set against the urban background of Nantes." The beautiful Anouk Aimee plays Lola, a cabaret dancer, who is courted by her childhood friend. But she is still in love with Michel, who had left her with their child when he went off to seek his fortune. After spending the night with another man, Michel reappears, rich, and takes her away. French with English subtitles. France, 1961, 91 mins. DVD | $37.95
A Slightly Pregnant Man Jacques Demy 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. DVD | $37.95
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy Catherine Deneuve stars in this sumptuously photographed romantic musical of two lovers who are split up by the Algerian war. The girl marries another when she discovers she is pregnant. He also marries; yet they meet again. All dialog is sung; with haunting music by Michel LeGrand and lyrics by Demy, including the song, "I Will Wait for You." "A masterpiece! More beautiful and more startling than ever!" (New York Daily News). "The kind of movie that audiences will remember all their lives" (Chicago Tribune). Digitally remastered, presented in 16x9 widescreen with 5.1 surround sound; with a bonus featurette on Jacques Demy. French with English subtitles. France/Germany, 1964, 92 mins. DVD | $44.95
The Young Girls of Rochefort Jacques Demy Jacques Demy's companion piece to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a lighter, even more playful variation on the musical form, but there is deep emotion under its frothy surface. Real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac (in her next-to-last film) star as on-screen siblings looking for love and a career in the music world. Among the men who become romantic possibilities for them is Gene Kelly, in his last significant musical role. Demy also wrote the lyrics for Michel Legrand's wonderful music. "Demy's grand, colorful, and unorthodox approach to the material pays tribute to the American musical yet mixes in accoutrements of French poetic realism: dreams and reality coexist more strangely and stubbornly than in most other musicals" (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). The film was re-released to much acclaim in 1998, with restored color and sound supervised by Demy's widow, Agnes Varda. In French with English subtitles. France, 1967, 125 mins. DVD | $37.95
