Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are well known for their sumptuous look, drawing on Hollywood musicals, fairytales, and opera. His films are also distinguishable by their overlapping continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), self-contained musical universes, and themes like teenaged love, labor rights, and incest.