Claude Mann

Dressed from head to toe in couture Pierre Cardin, Jeanne Moreau is an impervious femme fatale in Jacques Demy’s tale of wayward gamblers, shot on the lush coast of Nice. Composed of tumbling piano runs, Michel Legrand’s score cascades like rain, an indelible accompaniment to a stormy love affair.

Long underappreciated and unseen, this tragic masterpiece—Jean-Pierre Melville’s most personal film, based on a novel by Joseph Kessel—recounts the struggles and sacrifices of those who fought in the French Resistance. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Simone Signoret star as intrepid underground fighters in an unsparing tale of defiance in the face of insurmountable odds.

A documentary about the late Jacques Demy, man and cineaste, by his widow, filmmaker Agnes Varda.