Univers de Jacques Demy, L'

Documentary The World of Jacques Demy aka L'Univers de Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda's second film about her husband (after her semi-fictionalised film about his childhood, Jacquot de Nantes), eschews a chronological approach for a more scrapbook like amble through his career, which is one way of avoiding the inevitable decline of his career and ending on a high. Utilizing archive interviews, on-set footage, reuniting co-stars and hearing from fans (mostly teenage girls), surprises abound, such as footage of Demy and Harrison Ford hanging around while shooting tests for his forgotten US sequel to Lola, Model Shop (Ford was replaced by Gary Lockwood at the studio's insistence Ford would never be a box-office star) or a chubby Jim Morrison visiting the set of Peau D'Ane. While it offers ample inadvertent examples of why much of his post-60s work was less than successful – many of the more obscure films look simply awful - it does make you want to see the odd lesser-known work like the surprisingly dark looking The Pied Piper, and the 90 minutes pass surprisingly easily.

90年代末，Jacques Demy|雅克·德米去世后，瓦尔达先后拍了三部以她的丈夫为主题的影片，先是以《南特的雅科》（''Jacquot de Nantes''，1990）叙述了Jacques Demy对拍电影充满了狂热的童年故事。纪录片《[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114794/ 雅克·德米]的世界》（''L' Univers de Jacques Demy''，1993），之后的《洛城少女曾经二十五岁》（''Les Demoiselles ont eu 25 ans''，1992），是一部关于Jacques Demy 的《[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062873/ 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。在这些影片里， 瓦尔达一点都不避讳地表现出，身为女人，自己对丈夫的迷恋与思念。放眼世界影坛，这绝对是一个特例。

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