Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist who lived from 5 June 1931 to 27 October 1990. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries such as Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. His films are celebrated for a visual style that drew on classic Hollywood musicals, fairy tales, jazz and the opera, and they feature overlapping continuity and lush musical scores, typically composed by Michel Legrand. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is listed here as a work.
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