Jacques Demy was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. Jacques Demy passed away on October 27, 1990, at the age of 59.
Jacques Demy cause of death: What happened to Agnès Varda’s husband?
Demy is perhaps best known for his original musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, with a score by Legrand. it was reported that he died of cancer, but in 2008 Varda revealed that Demy died of HIV/AIDS. He was buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.
Jacques Demy was bisexual. In 1958, Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda met at a short film festival in Tours. The two married in 1962. They had a son together, Mathieu Demy (born 1972), and Demy also adopted Varda’s daughter, Rosalie Varda (born 1958), whom she had with Antoine Bourseiller in a previous relationship.
After working with the animator Paul Grimault and the filmmaker Georges Rouquier, Demy directed Lola, his first feature film, in 1961, with Anouk Aimée playing the eponymous cabaret singer.
Demy’s subsequent films never quite captured the audience and critical acclaim the way Les Parapluies did, although he continued to make ambitious and original dramas and musicals. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), is another whimsical-yet-melancholic musical.
