Lola

by Jacques Demy

France - 1961

Feature Film - 85mn

B&W

French with English subtitles

ScreenplayJacques Demy

CinematographyRaoul Coutard

MusicMichel Legrand

CastAnouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott

Format35mm – Mono

GenreFiction

First ReleaseMarch 3, 1961

Restored Version2012

AwardsThe Grand Prix de l’Académie du Cinéma in 1961

ProductionCarlo Ponti – Georges de Beauregard

SynopsisLola, a cabaret dancer, raises a son whose father, Michel, left 7 years before. As she waits for him, she sings, dances, and sometimes loves the sailors who pass through. Roland Cassard, a childhood friend she runs into, falls head over heels in love with her. But she is waiting for Michel…

AboutLola is Jacques Demy’s first long feature film and was shot in Nantes (France) during the summer of 1960 at the very time of New Wave. Anouk Aimée is the legendary Lola who dances and sings the famous song “C’est moi Lola” . “Jacques gave me Lola; he gave me a magnificent gift… Lola… she is such a part of me that I no longer know where she stops and where I begin… We became such good friends that we imitate one another” Anouk Aimée.
In 1969, the character Lola is back in Model Shop, so is Anouk Aimée…

Selective filmography of Jacques Demy
(1963-1988)

1963 – La baie des anges

1964 - Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

1967 – Les demoiselles de Rochefort

1969 – Model Shop

1970 - Peau d’Ane

1972 – The pied piper of Hamelin

1973 – L’Evénement le plus important depuis que l’homme a marché sur la lune

1978 – Lady Oscar

1980 – La naissance du jour

1982 – Une chambre en ville

1985 – Parking

1988 – Trois places pour le 26

With the courtesy ofCiné-Tamaris, Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage and Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema