Li Yi 08.09.11
reprinted from the blog of the Chinese drama Xiao Po Boy
http://blog.sina.com.cn/angelina2jolie
(2011-01-06 11:46:57) There is wine today, and now you
are drunk, tomorrow's worry comes tomorrow -
Jacques Demy (1931 – 1990) in Luo Yin's "Self Dispatch", a man living in southern France special film poet. The standard-bearers of the new wave of French cinema were mavericks, and Demi was no exception, but he was not as keen on film essays as Jean-Luc Godard, as chatty as Eric Rohmer, as Claude Hitchcock like De Chabrol, unlike Alain Resnais, who gallops in the language experiment of film, he is closer to François Truffaut, indulging in fantasy, which seems unrealistic, but is actually childlike. He is free to create his own illusory world, and shoot movies full of fairy tales and a sense of the classic Hollywood era. His films are so simple, innocent, romantic and beautiful, with classical and popular emotions, and write his love for life, drama and film in a unique way.
The formal beauty of Demi's films comes from the rich and bold colors and well-proportioned and harmonious composition. The narrative aesthetics are rooted in the lovable character relationships, the bizarre and ingenious storylines, explain the profound things in a simple way, and are full of philosophy. From the small lives of ordinary people, the big era is reflected, and life flows by, beautiful and moving.
Demi has loved watching movies since he was a child. He used to draw pictures on film to tell stories and make movies, and build his own world from it. In 1961, he made his first feature film "Lola" (Lola), the film tells the French actress Anouk Aimée (Anouk Aimée) The love life of the cabaret girl Lola and several boyfriends, while showing the The style of the port city, the sea, the sailors. Lola often sings and dances at will, and the music composed by composer Michel Legrand has become a splendid scenery. The film's video style reflects Demmy's love for classic Hollywood films, and the story expresses his obsession with issues such as fate, chance, chance encounter, and love's loss, which later became the hallmark of all his films. Classic theme. 1963's La Baie des Anges (The Bay of Angels), starring French actress Jeanne Moreau, took the theme of fate a step further, with Russian roulette deciding a pair The joys and sorrows of lovers, and the roulette of life decides everything.
In 1964, Demy filmed the musical "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, English name The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964), which brought people back to the small port of France once again to reproduce his childhood memories. But this time, all the dialogues in the film turned into singing, Michel Legrand wrote all the music, and Demy processed the colors of all the scenes, gorgeous and naughty, exaggerated but unique, the plot , music and color together express rich emotions and create a colorful and infinitely beautiful world. The young actress, Catherine Deneuve, played Jeanne Huff, a charming and unforgettable character. The characters in the film "Lola" are transformed and appear in "The Umbrella of Cherbourg" again. This intertextual effect of the relationship between the characters can't help but make people feel that time has changed, and it has also become one of the symbols of Demi's film.
Since then, Demmy has shot Model Shop (1969) and Peau d'Ane (Donkey Skin, 1970), which, although not out of the norm, do not seem to have surpassed "Lola" or "Lola" or "Donkey Skin" (1970). The artistic achievement of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
In 1967, he shot "The Girls of Rochefort" (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, 1967), the film is like a companion to "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", full of affection and passion, singing and dancing, as past. Only the sisters of actresses Deneuve and Duliac are slightly vicissitudes of life. People think back to the "Umbrella of Cherbourg", also played by Deneuve, who was also a girl from the autumn waters, Jenny Huifu, so they sighed sadly. Hard to stay. It turned out that the years passed quietly like a song.
In 1990, Jacques Demy died at the age of 61 and was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery. In 1991, his wife Agnès Varda made the film "Jacquot de Nantes" (Jacquot de Nantes), revisiting those songlike years, that kind of feeling.
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