Director Jacques Demy—a young, slender man with dark hair, wearing a dark blue polo shirt and a captain's cap—stands with his back to the camera on a busy film set. Beside him, a camera operator sits on a raised stool.

still Jacques Demy, le rose et le noir (Florence Platarets, FR 2024)

The Films of Jacques Demy

27 August — 14 October 2026

still from Jacques Demy, le rose et le noir (Florence Platarets, FR 2024)

still Jacques Demy, le rose et le noir (Florence Platarets, FR 2024)

French director Jacques Demy (1931 – 1990) didn’t just make films, he created an entire cinematic universe concerned with fate and coincidence, doomed love and intersecting lives all creating something you think you recognise, yet which differs subtly from your familiar world.

To accompany the 4K restoration of the wonderful, bittersweet musical Les parapluies de Cherbourg, other films by Jacques Demy will be screened, featuring major French film stars including Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau and Anouk Aimée.

still Jacques Demy, le rose et le noir (Florence Platarets, FR 2024)

still from Les parapluies de Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, FR/DE 1964)

still Les parapluies de Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, FR/DE 1964)

He made ‘calm films about happiness’, or the failure to find it, whether through sung dialogue (cinéma enchanté), melodrama, or fantasy. The playful lightness found in many of his New Wave films is deceptive: Demy’s films are always imbued with meaning and symbolism.

still from Les demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, FR 1967)

still Les demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, FR 1967)

Demy sought to create an all-encompassing cinema, a cinema of refined harmonies in which direction, music, colour, actors, dialogue, and set design all play an equal role.

Dutch distribution company Cherry Pickers is releasing five of Demy’s films nationwide: Lola, La baie des Anges, Les parapluies de Cherbourg, Les demoiselles de Rochefort, and Peau d'âne. Eye is supplementing this selection with additional films by Demy, short films, and the new documentary Jacques Demy, le rose et le noir.

Watch the trailer Cherry Pickers created for their five distribution titles

still from La baie des Anges (Jacques Demy, FR 1962)

still La baie des Anges (Jacques Demy, FR 1962)

still from L'evènement le plus important dépuis que l'homme à marche sur la lune (Jacques Demy, FR/IT 1973)

still L'evènement le plus important dépuis que l'homme à marche sur la lune (Jacques Demy, FR/IT 1973)

Film programme

still from Peau d'âne (Donkey Skin) (Jacques Demy, FR 1970)

still Peau d'âne (Donkey Skin) (Jacques Demy, FR 1970)

still from Lola (Jacques Demy, FR/IT 1960)

still Lola (Jacques Demy, FR/IT 1960)

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