A Painter Filmmaker: Jacques Demy

Authors

  • Bárbara Santos Mato Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Keywords:

Jacques Demy, cinema and paiting, psychology of color, Kandinsky, The umbrellas of Cherbourg, Matisse, Vermeer

Abstract

«A Painter Filmmaker: Jacques Demy». The endless union of cinema and painting has a wonderful example in French Nouvelle Vague director Jacques Demy. Colour takes a particularly central role in his films, always complementing the development of both plot and character psychology. Such symbolic and psychological use of colour shows Kandinsky’s reflections to be always present in Demy’s work. Taking his flagship film: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg as an example we find clear references to painters such as Kandinsky, Matisse and Vermeer.

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Published

2011-12-08

Issue

No. 9 (2011)

Section

Miscellaneous

License

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How to Cite

Santos Mato, Bárbara. 2011. “A Painter Filmmaker: Jacques Demy”. Latente - Revista de Historia Y Estética del Cine, Fotografí­a Y Cultura Visual, no. 9 (December): 119-30. https://www.ull.es/revistas/index.php/latente/article/view/5885.