We’re ushering in the springtime with a selection of masterpieces from the most musical, romantic, and colourful Nouvelle Vague filmmaker, Jacques Demy. Frequently setting his films amongst industrial ports on France’s Atlantic coast, Demy turned these utilitarian places into a self-contained cinematic universe, often drenched in Technicolor, always bursting with the music and songs of Michel Legrand, and featuring a dazzling array of dreamers and lovers played by such icons of French cinema as Anouk Aimée, Jeanne Moreau, and Catherine Deneuve. Demy’s magical universe is virtually fully formed in his debut Lola (1961), which he followed with the intoxicating and cautionary Bay of Angels (1963). Demy moved into glorious colour with his iconic musicals, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). A third musical, Donkey Skin (1970) pushes Demy’s already fantastical style into the realm of fairy tale exuberance. These classics are complimented by Agnès Varda’s stunning tribute to Demy (her husband), Jacquot de Nantes (1991).