Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors.

Jacques Demy’s ability to enchant audiences was rooted in his personal struggles and doubts as a showman, establishing him as one of French cinema’s greatest artists.

A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, AgneÌs Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. She imposed herself as a free, iconoclastic woman with her finger on the pulse of her times. A life that one can’t help admiring. While she often portrayed and featured herself in her own films, for the first time ever, this documentary provides a counter-shot through interviews and previously unseen archives materials.
Agnès Varda, renowned pioneering female filmmaker, made her mark on the history of film by reinventing both what feature films and documentaries could look like and what stories they could tell.

好友为纪念雅克-德米拍的纪录短片。
Dominique Rabourdin, amigo de Jacques Demy y director, propone una evocación de Nantes retomando algunos pasajes de la película "Jacquot De Nantes" mezclados con algunas tomas no incluidas en el montaje final.
"Souvenirs de Nantes" dibuja un retrato a la vez histórico y drámático de Jacques Demy y de la ciudad mítica de Nantes. A través de imágenes de archivo, recuerda también la relación de Julien Gracq y de los surrealistas con la ciudad.

1959 film by Jacques Demy

是一部关于Jacques Demy 的《[
洛城少女]》（Demoiselles de Rochefort，1966）的纪录片，片中混合了当初拍片的现场纪录和二十几年后Rochefort当地为影片庆生的实况。
In 1967, the phenomenally successful director of the films Lola and the groundbreaking musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, arrived in the little port town of Rochefort and, together with his art director, decorated the whole town in cheerful, almost surreal fashion for the filming of his next musical, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. This enormously well-received film, packed with songs which became integral to French popular culture, put the little town of Rochefort "on the map." Twenty five years later, a lot of things have changed except for the fond memories of the people who worked on the film, and of the townspeople. In this celebratory documentary, Agnes Varda, the wife of Jacques Demy, brings some of the players and extras together back in Rochefort for some reminiscences. In keeping with the thoroughly romantic nature of the musical, she also tells the story of how Les Demoiselles de Rochefort's extras found romance and had their lives changed by participating in its making. The present-day story is highlighted by clips from the earlier film, and from a documentary of the period showing how it was made. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

本片以搬演的手法记录了法国西部卢瓦河畔的乡村生活。在南特附近卢瓦尔河畔的一个小村庄里，住着一个木鞋匠和他的妻子及他们的养子。木鞋匠的工作就是日复一日地用古老的工艺制作木鞋，有时他的生活中也会发生一些重大事件，比如他的老朋友于贝尔去世了，他给妻子买了一辆崭新的独轮车。一个周末，木鞋匠和老伴到镇上作完弥撒之后来到卢瓦河边钓鱼，在镇上裁缝铺工作的养子由于要跟女友约会而没有陪他们去钓鱼。本片导演雅克·德米（1931-1990）生于本片描绘的法国西部卢瓦省，自幼喜爱电影。他在独立拍片之前担任过乔治·鲁吉埃的助手，本片是在鲁吉埃监制下完成的，在指导非职业演员方面深得鲁吉埃的《法尔比克》的真传，而本片的片名及拍摄手法令人想起意大利导演艾马诺·奥尔米完成于 1978的影片《木屐树》。在新浪潮电影运动时期，德米转拍故事片，他在南特拍摄的《劳拉》（1960）受到广泛好评。德米的影片颇具浪漫色彩甚至传奇风格，其他代表作还有《瑟堡的雨伞》（1964）、《驴皮公主》《1970》。此外，德米的妻子阿涅斯·瓦尔达也是新浪潮电影的重要人物。

2008 film by Agnès Varda

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.