Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)

Note Générale:

7,6/10   

Réalisateurs:

Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda

Scénariste:

Jacques Demy (written by)

Date de sortie:

11 avril 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Comedie | Drame | Musical | Romance

Accroche:

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

Intrigue:

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

Récompenses:

Nominated for Oscar.

Avis des utilisateurs:

Demy Paradis

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)

Rapport de forme:

2,20 : 1

Son:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)

Classification:

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

Lieux de tournage:

Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France

Société:

Madeleine Films

Anecdotes:

Danielle Darrieux is the only actor who actually sings for herself

Guillemet:

Delphine: Did he have a camera?
Solange: No.
Delphine: Then how did you know he was an American?

Connexions:

figure dans Le fils de Gascogne (1995)

Bande son:

Le Pont Transbordeur (ballet générique)

Demy Paradis

It's probably pure chance that I saw this film for the first time - in the restored version by Agnes Varda - a few days after I was leafing through Demy's Collected Lyrics which have recently been published in France. It's clear from Frame #1 that this is a film to which you either have to surrender as the credits roll or squirm in embarrassment for the next two hours. Demy's 'fairy-tale' is as unashamedly full of coincidences as any Shakespeare comedy even to the extent of employing one set of twins, albeit non-identical but played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Francois Dorleac. If you're going to stop and wonder why the streets are always available for dancing in - i.e. traffic-free - or why Danielle Darrieux runs a cafe/bar which is little more than a counter, a glass roof and no substantial walls, then you're in the wrong movie. Demy loved chocolate-box movies and he complemented them with chocolate-box music from Michel Legrand - I was pleasantly surprised to realize that I already knew the main love them via its English lyric by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, You Must Believe In Spring, recorded definitively by Marlene VerPlanck - and the score, on the whole is lush without being memorable and ranging from fifties type small combo jazz to all-out string ensembles and if everyone - including Gene Kelly - except Danielle Darrieux is dubbed so what. Jacques Perrin is also on hand as a love-sick sailor, what else, and after seeing him play more or less the same role (narrator) in both Cinema Paradiso and Les Choristes the effect is like seeing a photograph of a friend acquired in middle age when he was a young man. Definitely worth a second viewing and who knows, I may even go so far as to buy the DVD.