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Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort was released in 1967 as a dancing companion piece to his musical film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg--an international hit three years earlier. The two films shared the same composer, Michel Legrand and one star, Catherine Deneuve but there the parallels ended: Les Demoiselles was a box-office flop. The reputation of the film has since been kept afloat by Legrand's music, which includes the pretty melody "You Must Believe in Spring". Demy's film is self-evidently a tribute to the American film musical: the choreography is modelled on Jerome Robbins' dances as seen in West Side Story but unlike that film no attempt has been made to make these dances a natural extension of the action. Here the dancers break footloose and fancy-free in a manner that can at best be described as naïve and at worse wearisome in the film's two-hour running time. The opening duet for the two sisters (Deneuve and Françoise Dorleac) nods in the direction of the Marilyn Monroe/Jane Russell "Little Girl from Little Rock" duet from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes but at least the Legrand tune has its own punch and vivacity. Seasoned performers like Gene Kelly--rather too old to play a romantic lead but singing (unlike most of the cast) in his own French--and Danielle Darrieux are on screen too but their presence can't compensate for the lacklustre direction and purposeless plot that reaches its nadir in some embarrassing local headlines describing murder and crime set to jaunty music. While grateful to have had the opportunity to see a film that might have been lost were it not for the restoration process, there can be little doubt that the Demy-Legrand partnership will continue to be remembered for their earlier work. --Adrian Edwards
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A joyous musical that outdoes its Hollywood predecessors with naive romance, decadent art direction and an appearance by the legendary Gene Kelly, THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT, a follow up to Demy's previous collaboration with Catherine Deneuve and composer Michel Legrand, is entirely sung. A pair of sisters (Deneuve and her real life sister Francoise Dorleac) who teach and compose music in the French town of Rochefort seek love and success in Paris. When two young men with a travelling carnival come to town, they help the sisters put on a song and dance number that gives them instant success, while simultaneously, a love struck sailor finds his ideal woman in Deneuve. To top it off, even the mother of the two women finds a long lost love.
Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort was released in 1967 as a dancing companion piece to his musical film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg--an international hit three years earlier. The two films shared the same composer, Michel Legrand and one star, Catherine Deneuve but there the parallels ended: Les Demoiselles was a box-office flop. The reputation of the film has since been kept afloat by Legrand's music, which includes the pretty melody "You Must Believe in Spring". Demy's film is self-evidently a tribute to the American film musical: the choreography is modelled on Jerome Robbins' dances as seen in West Side Story but unlike that film no attempt has been made to make these dances a natural extension of the action. Here the dancers break footloose and fancy-free in a manner that can at best be described as naïve and at worse wearisome in the film's two-hour running time. The opening duet for the two sisters (Deneuve and Françoise Dorleac) nods in the direction of the Marilyn Monroe/Jane Russell "Little Girl from Little Rock" duet from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes but at least the Legrand tune has its own punch and vivacity. Seasoned performers like Gene Kelly--rather too old to play a romantic lead but singing (unlike most of the cast) in his own French--and Danielle Darrieux are on screen too but their presence can't compensate for the lacklustre direction and purposeless plot that reaches its nadir in some embarrassing local headlines describing murder and crime set to jaunty music. While grateful to have had the opportunity to see a film that might have been lost were it not for the restoration process, there can be little doubt that the Demy-Legrand partnership will continue to be remembered for their earlier work. --Adrian Edwards
Synopsis
A joyous musical that outdoes its Hollywood predecessors with naive romance, decadent art direction and an appearance by the legendary Gene Kelly, THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT, a follow up to Demy's previous collaboration with Catherine Deneuve and composer Michel Legrand, is entirely sung. A pair of sisters (Deneuve and her real life sister Francoise Dorleac) who teach and compose music in the French town of Rochefort seek love and success in Paris. When two young men with a travelling carnival come to town, they help the sisters put on a song and dance number that gives them instant success, while simultaneously, a love struck sailor finds his ideal woman in Deneuve. To top it off, even the mother of the two women finds a long lost love.
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