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Demy (surname)
Demy is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: * Jacques Demy (1931–1990), French film director * Marie Demy (born 1994), Belgian badminton player * Mathieu Demy Mathieu Demy (born 15 October 1972) is a French actor, film director and producer. He is the son of French film directors Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy. Career Demy started as a young actor in Agnès Varda's films ''L'une chante, l'autre pas ... (born 1972), French actor, film director and producer * Valentine Demy (born 1963), Italian actress See also * Michèle Demys (born 1943), French athlete {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964) and ''The Young Girls of Rochefort'' (1967). Career After working with the animator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Demy
Marie Demy (born 30 November 1994) is a Belgian female badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ... player. Achievements BWF International Challenge/Series 'Women's Singles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series tournament References External links * 1994 births Living people Belgian female badminton players {{Badminton-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Demy
Mathieu Demy (born 15 October 1972) is a French actor, film director and producer. He is the son of French film directors Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy. Career Demy started as a young actor in Agnès Varda's films ''L'une chante, l'autre pas'' (''One Sings, the Other Doesn't''), ''Documenteur'', '' Mur Murs'' and ''Kung Fu Master''. Demy's work as an actor ranges from romantic comedy to drama. His breakthrough came in 1998, when he was cast as Olivier, a young man with AIDS, in the musical '' Jeanne et le Garçon formidable'', directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. In 1999, he started a company, Les Films de l’Autre, to produce his own short films. He produced and directed in 2000 his first film, ''Le Plafond'' (35’), adapted from a short story by Tonino Benacquista. The film received the audience award at the Angers film festival Festival Premiers Plans and the Uppsala International Short film Festival, and additional awards in Pantin, Rennes, Dignes and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine Demy
Valentine Demy (born 24 January 1963) is an Italian mainstream and pornographic actress. Born as Marisa Parra in Pisa, Demy started her film career in the late 1980s, appearing often in main roles in several genre films, mainly of erotic genre, in which she was directed among others by Tinto Brass and Joe D'Amato. In the mid-90s she switched to starring in pornographic films. She was a former body building champion. Her stage name is inspired by the comic character with the same name created by Guido Crepax Guido Crepas (15 July 1933, in Milan – 31 July 2003, in Milan), better known by his pen name Guido Crepax, was an Italian comics artist. He is most famous for his character '' Valentina'', created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of .... References External links * * * 1963 births Living people Italian film actresses People from Pisa Italian pornographic film actresses {{Italy-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |