The Young Girls of Rochefort
by Jacques Demy
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Actor: Doroth?e Blank, George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Henri Cr?mieux, Ren? BazartDirector: Jacques Demy
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-22
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of The Young Girls of Rochefort
Movie Review: If you like Michel Legrande...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a delightful musical with a very young Catherine Deneuve and her gorgeous sister, Francoise Dorleac who was tragically killed shortly after the movie came out. Danielle Darrieux is the beautiful mother who has left her lover because his name, Monsieur Dame, is too silly. She is left with two beautiful twin daughters, Deneuve and her sister, and a nine year old boy, Booboo. The story is pretty much fluff as a group comes to town for the weekend for a fair. Everyone is in close proximity as coincidence keeps the various lovers from discovering their mates before the end of the film. Gene Kelly is a bit old at 55 but everybody has a good time and the music is terrific. Highly recommended for the music and the girls. It's not a bad way to work on your French, too.
Summary of The Young Girls of Rochefort
A wonderfully entertaining musical fantasy, THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT features big-screen legend Gene Kelly (THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT) and international star Catherine Deneuve (BELLE DE JOUR) in a delightfully lighthearted story about two charming sisters waiting for their perfect love to arrive! In the picturesque seaside village of Rochefort, Delphine (Deneuve) teaches dance while her twin Solange (Francoise Dorleac) composes and gives piano lessons. As the girls dream of success and romance in the far-off big city, they don't realize that true love may be just around the corner! An exuberant musical treat that earned rave reviews from critics everywhere, this beloved classic has been beautifully restored to its original magnificence!The French director Jacques Demy scored a worldwide hit in 1964 with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a bittersweet candy-colored romance in which all the dialogue was set to music. Equally enchanting is the musical that reunited Demy with the star and composer of Umbrellas, Catherine Deneuve and Michel Legrand. The film is The Young Girls of Rochefort, an effervescent concoction about traveling players and dreamy-headed demoiselles in a seaside town. Deneuve and her real-life sister, Fran?oise Dorl?ac (who died in a car accident not long after the movie was made), play twins who fantasize about life in Paris. But before they leave town, they are distracted by the weekend fair and its colorful singers and dancers. They're also destined to meet an American composer--gloriously, it's Gene Kelly, carrying the aura of classic MGM musicals in his lighter-than-air wake. He was 55 at the time, but much younger in movie years. (Another American, George Chakiris, also dances his way through the film.) Legrand's music isn't as powerful as his Cherbourg score, and some of the choreography would fit right into an Austin Powers discotheque sequence. And the costumes--well, the excesses of '60s mod designs have not aged well. Yet the crazy hairstyles and vinyl boots fit right into the film's sense of gleeful fun. There is a sunny, daffy spirit to this movie that becomes positively infectious. It deserves to be better known. (Try to catch a widescreen version, if possible.) --Robert Horton
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