The winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964 for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy is one of the leading figures of French cinema, just like his wife, Agnès Varda. His movies have become a part of the nation's collective memory.
Agnès Varda wrote a series of postcards to him in 2010 published posthumously. These documents on show at the exhibition have also been presented in the form of facsimiles in a book titled Jacques Demy, published by La Martinière.