{"id":13408,"date":"2014-07-22T16:11:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=13408"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:18:20","slug":"jacques-demy-the-essential-jacques-demy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/07\/22\/jacques-demy-the-essential-jacques-demy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Demy: The Essential Jacques Demy<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is a big day for fans of Jacques Demy and The Criterion Collection. I’ve been a fan of\u00a0The Umbrellas of Cherbourg<\/em>\u00a0for years, and on this past New Year’s Day The Criterion Collection hinted that they were going to release not only that musical classic but also\u00a0several\u00a0more of\u00a0Demy’s films sometime\u00a0in 2014.\u00a0Well, it’s here: today’s the day we welcome The Essential Jacques Demy<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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Notably, the box is titled “Essential” and not “Complete”\u2020 so we’re not getting Demy’s entire career here. Indeed, some might even say\u00a0at least a few\u00a0of Demy’s essential titles are missing;\u00a0Model Shop<\/em>, Demy’s first English-language film from 1969, has been thrown around as an essential title,\u00a0and, though one I haven’t seen,\u00a0I’m persuaded to agree if only because in it Anouk Aim\u00e9e reprises her role from Demy’s first film, Lola<\/em>, which is included. However,\u00a0I don’t feel let\u00a0down in the slightest. This set contains six of Demy’s eleven feature films, including two landmarks in cinema: the\u00a0vibrant musicals\u00a0The Umbrellas of Cherbourg<\/em> and, its follow-up, The Young Girls of Rochefort<\/em>. Indeed, other than Model Shop<\/em>, the set contains all of Demy’s work from the 1960s, his most esteemed period (certainly the one I have heard the most about).<\/p>\n

Here are the six films we have in this set:<\/p>\n