(updated entry for this individual short film rather than the anthology feature it was a part of)

Wonderfully funny and cool in a way that only seems 30 or 40 years ahead of its time if you're unaware of what was going on in 60s Paris. Beautiful!

Bacana inserção demyniana no universo da fantasia infantil - gosto particularmente de como é mostrado como alguns adultos nunca deixam esse universo.
BlurayRip no MakingOff.

A great depiction of Hell, some lovely long takes, and an inventive flashback that bravely asks what would happen if typical adult New Wave male types were cast as children.

"My heart, my soul, my sister; let's commit the incest I've dreamed of since my mother's breast."

The art of the French pick-up line

love the depiction of hell! especially the skeletons!!

The rating is mainly for the dream/fantasy sequences, particularly the cutaways imagining what Hell is like, which are remarkably staged, painterly tableaus.

this is probably the most french new wave thing demy has done. at times it reminded me of early godard and rohmer. anyways it was great. very french, very cool, lots of naked people and the dream sequences alone make it worth the watch.

Jacques Demy Shorts RANKED

More New Wave than a lot of Demy's other work, there's some really brilliant stuff in this that I thought was really well done. The depictions of hell were very good as was Michel Legrand's score.

I will have to try and find the other 6 sections of the anthology film this is from.

AKA "La Luxure" - here we have Demy's contribution the Seven Deadly Sins omnibus effort. Interestingly, the title is listed as "Lust" but the line "la luxure" is translated in the subtitles as "Lechery." Go figure.

With that said, this is an incredible short film on its own, and worth a look even if only to get a glimpse of Demy's vision of Hell. It also captures a handful of things that are (sadly?) now lost to time, like the idea of looking through an art book and finding oneself aroused at the nude figures painted therein. There's even some fun wordplay on Demy's part that's well-translated via the subtitles. And one sequence in particular has to have influenced a very specific scene in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master.

This also has a much more propulsive energy than anything I've seen from Demy thus far (which, granted is a handful of shorts and one real feature film, but still).

Kids smoking. Cigarettes? Hell yeah

[sees Corinne Marchand] Oh hey, I know you …

The hell sequences were literally LIT and FIRE and all that good stuff. Kind of want to see the other six films in this sequence but I’m still wary of Godard ...

"Male Gaze: The Film"

All jokes aside, this is a very creative short that depicts lust in quite an inventive and interesting way. Music is on point, as is just about everything else in the thing. Great short.

love the depiction of hell! especially the skeletons!!

thanks demy, now I know the meaning of lechery

Probably the most interesting depiction of hell I’ve seen (not forgetting Jigoku). Whimsical pop short.

Amazing how Demy popped out fully formed 4 shorts into his career.

probably the most French New Wave thing I’ve seen from Demy — standout was definitely the little dream sequence in hell

I’ve started watching shorts that are under 20 minutes on the Criterion Channel during my lunch breaks at work, and I’m really thrilled at the little tastes I’m getting from filmmakers I haven’t explored.

This is a wonderful little piece of French New Wave that has absolutely made me want to dive further into Jacques Demy’s filmography. Incredibly imaginative depictions of hell through the lens of a child’s mind, as well as an interesting and different take on lust that you find most male characters in FNW films have. Love it. Also any screen appearance of Corrine Marchand (albeit very brief) will make me dig it!!

Kinky and funny. Everything that you need.

Decent 7 🇫🇷

Boring and pointless.

I enjoyed this short, Demy in a playful mood.

jacques demy i know you are dead but are you sure you don’t want to adapt this into a feature for me?

jacques baby!!! you came into your own here !!!! proud of you - sarah

Demy's short is the best of the bunch—which is saying very little. The ironic conclusion that this French man cannot relate his own behavior to a child's misunderstanding of lust is humorous, and the shot compositions comparing naked women in a café to Bosch's paintings are the film's best moments (besides maybe the opening long take). On the whole, however, there's still little to make this particularly noteworthy.