Colours of Nantes...(18/5)

Glad that the French May has chosen Jacques Demy as the highlight of the year's cinematique world...The director is one of my very favorites. His cinema world is usually affluent and picturesque. I picked Lola and Peau d'ane as the two movies to watch this time. Lola was a black and white film. This was the first long film made by Demy. Without the colourful pastoral of images, Lola was an expression of Demy's belief of the meaning of movie under the French new wave era. The script was beautifully written and the editing was impressive. The film was taken in Nantes, the hometown of Demy. The passage in the Arcade was an eternity in Demy's film world. When I saw the scenes in the movie, I was amused by the classic pick of the setting for a Lola-istic devotion of first love. I visited the Arcade last year and unlike the much development and regeneration of Nantes, the passage lived in its gorgeous materialistic being of the last century. The long shot of Roland walking by the side of port was a prelude to Demy’s parapluies love in Cherbourg. The movie simply outlined the speech of Demy in his film making life. Peau d'ane, on the other hand, is a post-musical work of his great stories in Cherbourg and Rochefort. Colours remained a winning formula in this work. Truly get away from the realistic world when men devoted their attention to space exploration and development after landing on the Moon, Demy made a tribute to the fairy tale story. The film was also a golden demonstration of his value of the moving images in his greatest times of creation.