tag yourself i’m everyone pining for romance and focusing on melodrama while there’s a serial killer on the loose

i would like to eat this movie, it probably tastes great

a random axe murderer sub-plot?? in (De)MY(‘s) delightfully color-coordinated rom-com musical??? it’s more likely than you think

My favorite part was when they sang a series of cheery musical numbers about an innocent woman getting brutally murdered with an axe.

The most hopeful moment here, when poor Danielle Darrieux finally manages to leave her coffeeshop after being stuck there the whole movie, happens in the same scene as the saddest moment in the history of motion pictures, Deneuve and Perrin final miss. That's Demy in a single shot.

i want to live in this movie

me: a french musical with dance numbers AND gene kelly. this couldn't get any better
me when the random axe murderer subplot begins: holy fuck it got better

"If only your eyes were blue, i could have died for you."

speechless.

take me away, mr demy.

I don't know, it's probably the greatest opening sequence ever.

la la land found dead in a ditch

"With our feet on the ground, we have flights of fantasy."

Demy was a filmmaker with one foot on the ground with real people, real places, and real feelings, and the other as high in the movie romance cosmos as one can go. Song and dance as a real, material thing you do for money and also an expression of your wildest dreams. This is maybe the best musical.

hey jacques demy! girl you have done it again, constantly raising the bar for all of us and doing it flawlessly