Demy Monde
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Film scholar James Quandt created a nearly hour-long visual essay for our new collector’s set The Essential Jacques Demy. Titled Jacques Demy, A to Z, it elaborates on twenty-six concepts important to understanding the cinema of this singular filmmaker. For this excerpt, we present Quandt’s topic for the letter E, “The Eternal Return,” which details the way Demy created a hermetic cinematic universe across his many films, with overlapping characters and recurring motifs and settings.
