Even though Demy was making films at the same time as Godard, Truffaut and Chabrol, his films are much more romantic, lyrical and almost fairy-tale like; nevertheless he does not neglect psychological realism. Always in love with sounds and images, Demy concentrated on the romantic aspects of life, unlike most of the other members of the French New wave. Even in his first film, Lola, starring Anouk Aimée (who became famous after Claude Lelouche’s A Man and a Woman and Fellini’s films The Sweet Life and 8 1/2), it was evident that his main characteristics as an author include, besides specific poetics, precise psychological profiling of the characters and evocations of inner processes in his characters. In Lola it is evident that Demy devoted his film to the French director of German-Jewish origin Max Ophüls. Demy in Lola shows all the characteristics that he was to become recognizable for later in his career; they include stylized photography and a romantic overall atmosphere. Demy’s most successful film was his third film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a romantic story with sung dialogues and set designs characteristic of Hollywood musicals. The composer of the famous music for this film was Michel Legrand. Demy won the Grand Prix in Cannes. Afterwards he continued his career in America but never achieved the success of his early films. From 1962 until his death in 1990, his wife was the director Agnes Varda.