Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.7/10   

Directors:

Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda

Scénariste:

Jacques Demy (written by)

Release Date:

11 avril 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Comedie | Drame | Musical | Romance

Accroche:

...they're Singing and Dancing in the Streets

Plot:

Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Twins | Piano | Dance | Painter

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Avis des utilisateurs:

Possibly my favourite musical, definitely an acquired taste, and YES there is an English version!

Ensemble

Catherine Deneuve	...	Delphine Garnier
George Chakiris	...	Etienne
Françoise Dorléac	...	Solange Garnier (as Françoise Dorleac)
Jacques Perrin	...	Maxence
Michel Piccoli	...	Simon Dame
Jacques Riberolles	...	Guillaume Lancien
Grover Dale	...	Bill
Geneviève Thénier	...	Josette (as Geneviève Thenier)
Henri Crémieux	...	Subtil Dutrouz (as Henri Cremieux)
Pamela Hart	...	Judith
Leslie North	...	Esther
Patrick Jeantet	...	Boubou Garnier
Gene Kelly	...	Andy Miller
Danielle Darrieux	...	Yvonne Garnier
René Bazart	...	Pépé

Autre(s) titre(s):

The Young Girls of Rochefort (USA)

Durée:

120 min | Argentina:128 min | Germany:122 min | Japan:127 min | Sweden:126 min | USA:125 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français | Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Son:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)

Classification:

Singapore:PG | Australia:G | Argentina:Atp | Finland:S | France:U | Sweden:Btl | USA:G | Hong Kong:I

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France

Company:

Madeleine Films

Anecdotes:

Before Jacques Demy selected Rochefort as the location for this movie, he also considered Avignon, Hyeres, Toulouse, and La Rochelle among others. Rochefort won out because of the size of its central square, though production designer Bernard Evein found it necessary to repaint 40,000 square meters of the city's facades.

Guillemet:

Simon Dame: [Singing] How very sad it was the night she fled the scene, she didn't want the name of Madame Guillotine. She had this silly fear that if she went to bed, she'd suddenly wake up one day without her head

Movie Connections:

Featured in Les soeurs fâchées (2004)

Soundtrack:

Chanson Des Jumelles

Possibly my favourite musical, definitely an acquired taste, and YES there is an English version!

I just wanted to say I truly love this film and I do believe there will be a great deal of different opinions on it. My point in this post is that I have read in many places that the English language version of this film was never released and/or it's lost. This is not true at all as the first time I watched it was in English on television, late night during a stay in Brazil, with Portuguese subtitles. The catchphrase of "Je vais en Nantes, Je vais en perm' a Nantes" translated to "I'm going to Toulouse, I've nothing to lose."

The soundtrack is currently available on a fantastic new 2-CD set that replaces the long out-of-print 2 LP set, and includes the song "A Pair of Twins" in English! The LP, though, with its booklet and liner notes and pictures is a tough act to follow. Ah well.

I wish this movie would come out on DVD with both versions and greet a whole new generation of fans. Here's hoping this will happen within our lifetimes, while some of us are still young.

The Young Girls of Rochefort was an ambitious effort that paid off very generously in artistic terms but it was not as great a success in the box-office as Demy's previous "Umbrellas of Cherbourg". The score in "Rochefort" is sometimes a little repetitive but the soundtrack to me is the best one ever for a musical....or at least a French musical.