This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (as the segment on "Lust"), it has also been distributed and exhibited separately.

To be able to show today these short animations is the result of an adventure.
When Agnes Varda was preparing the film "Jacquot de Nantes" in 1990 she was able to film in the small apartment and even the garage, where Jacques had been brought up.
In the course of emptying out the attic so as to recreate the small studio which Jacques had set up at that time, Mireille Henrio, the archivist, and Agnes found scraps of 9.5 mm film stock, dry, creased and almost ruined, and two small cutout cardboard figures. It turned out to be impossible to project the original films, so an attempt was made to remake them.
LE PONT DE MAUVES (THE MAUVES BRIDGE)
This was the simplest film to remake since it consisted of just an animated design, and was not an animated film like the two others. The bombardment of the Mauves bridge at Nantes was redrawn, image by image, and it is sufficient to project the result at a suitable speed.

To be able to show today these short animations is the result of an adventure.
When Agnes Varda was preparing the film "Jacquot de Nantes" in 1990 she was able to film in the small apartment and even the garage, where Jacques had been brought up.
In the course of emptying out the attic so as to recreate the small studio which Jacques had set up at that time, Mireille Henrio, the archivist, and Agnes found scraps of 9.5 mm film stock, dry, creased and almost ruined, and two small cutout cardboard figures. It turned out to be impossible to project the original films, so an attempt was made to remake them.
LA BALLERINE (THE BALLERINA)
When the film fragments were shown to Jacques he immediately identified it as La Ballerine. A student from the Fine Arts college at Nantes then resigned each scene, image by image, on new 16 mm film stock. The movements could thus be visualised. Then the characters were recreated based on the Attaque Nocturne designs, and the decor was similarly recreated. The camera operator then photographed each image so as to remake the film. We were able to show these three films in "Jacquot de Nantes", and now preserved on this DVD, keeping to the original style which Jacques designed, then produced and filmed. This miraculous restoration allows us to see how
Jacques, right from the beginning, maintained his extraordinary passion for the cinema.

To be able to show today these short animations is the result of an adventure.
When Agnes Varda was preparing the film "Jacquot de Nantes" in 1990 she was able to film in the small apartment and even the garage, where Jacques had been brought up.
In the course of emptying out the attic so as to recreate the small studio which Jacques had set up at that time, Mireille Henrio, the archivist, and Agnes found scraps of 9.5 mm film stock, dry, creased and almost ruined, and two small cutout cardboard figures. It turned out to be impossible to project the original films, so an attempt was made to remake them.
ATTAQUE NOCTURNE (NIGHT ATTACK)
This film only existed in Jacques' memory, for all that remained were the cardboard cutouts of the two robbers. With the help of a designer Jacques drew on his memories to recreate the decor and the characters. The camera operator then photographed each image so as to reconstitute the film.

1980 television film directed by Jacques Demy

1957 film by Jacques Demy

Deux artistes se rappellent leur enfance et ce qu’ils pensaient des sept péchés capitaux en feuilletant un livre de Jérôme Bosch. Pour l’un d’eux, la luxure, c’est le luxe: les femmes nues en fourrure, les flammes de l’enfer sur de faux diamants…

On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens a selection of his favorite shorts

Jacques Demy's first surviving live-action project. A man alone in his crumbling apartment recalls being left by his girl for another man.

The story is set during a workers' strike in Nantes in 1955. Steel worker François Guilbaud is one of the strikers, and he rents a room from Margot Langlois, a widow who sympathizes with the strikers although she is herself upper-class. He has a pregnant girlfriend named Violette Pelletier, to whom he becomes less and less attracted, and abandons. When he tries to defend his behaviour, she feels she is treated even more unjustly. He meets Edith Leroyer, a beautiful working-class girl who is unhappily married to a rich but impotent and neurotic merchant, and a part-time prostitute. Unbeknownst to him she is the daughter of the widow. He first meets her in the street and one night she shows up in his room, wearing only her fur coat. They fall instantly in love, but their great passion lasts only one night, for during the demonstration he is shot by the police and dies in Edith's arms.

巴黎驾驶学校的一名老师去看病，抱怨自己身体不适，结果却被宣告已经怀有四个月的身孕。当专家证实了之后，这名男子得到了媒体以及广告商的疯狂追逐……

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.

1959 film by Jacques Demy

George Matthews is a young man who is having a bittersweet affair with a French divorcée in Los Angeles. Waiting to be drafted, he is unable to commit himself to anything or anybody, including his girlfriend Gloria. While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop" (an establishment which rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers). George spends his last twelve dollars to photograph her, and discovers that she is as unhappy as he. Although Lola is unwilling to respond to George, their brief night of lovemaking gives both the will to deal with their respective problems.

Parking is director Jacques Demy's homage to Jean Cocteau's 1948 masterwork Orpheus. As in the Cocteau film, Demy relates the Orpheus and Euridyce legend in a contemporary setting. Now a rock 'n' roll sensation (instead of the poet of the Cocteau film) Orpheus falls in love with Eurydice, who in this version is a sculptress rather than a princess. The rest of the film adheres to the familiar story. Euridyce, who is death personified, beckons Orpheus into Hell, ostensibly to revive his dead lover. A shade brighter and more buoyant than its source material, Parking is the usual Jacques Demy brew of beautiful imagery and hokey dialogue.~ Hal Erickson, 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。

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.

A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.