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Jacquot de Nantes
- Director: Agnès Varda
- Writer: Jacques Demy; Agnès Varda
CGiii Comment
The wife makes a film about her dead gay/bisexual husband's childhood...one year after he died of AIDS. Spooky.
There is a presumption to this film...that, everyone knows about the life and work of Demy (and Varda).
The film is made up of three parts: scenes from Demy's films, footage of the dying Demy...and, the dramatised youth of Demy. The constant shifting between them - makes it overbearingly fragmented. And, the pointing hands are more nuisance than help...
The sentimentality and lack of sexuality simply shows how age and time clouds judgment and perception.
33 years married to a gay man...! It can be viewed as a statement of grief...or, as an ode to regret...but, it is a considerable work. Painfully so.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Philippe Maron as Jacquot 1;
Edouard Joubeaud as Jacquot 2;
Laurent Monnier as Jacquot 3;
Brigitte De Villepoix as Marilou, la mere;
Daniel Dublet as Raymond, le pere;
Clement Delaroche as Yvon 1;
Rody Averty as Yvon 2;
Helene Pors as Reine 1;
Marie-Sidonie Benoist as Reine 2;
Jeremie Bernard as Yannick 1;
Cedric Michaud as Yannick 2;
Julien Mitard as Rene 1;
Jeremie Bader as Rene 2;
Guillaume Navaud as Cousin Joel;
Fanny Lebreton as La petite refugiee