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The Young Girls Of Rochefort [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
 
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The Young Girls Of Rochefort [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Catherine Deneuve
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  • Actors: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli
  • Directors: Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy
  • Producers: Gilbert de Goldschmidt, Mag Bodard
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: G (General Audience) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Miramax
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Jan 2002
  • Run Time: 125 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000062XI7
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 63,022 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT MUSICAL WITH THE 60'S MOST POPULAR STARS, 26 Aug 2001
This review is from: Les Demoiselles De Rochefort [VHS] [1967] (VHS Tape)
You'll enjoy to see Deneuve (Belle de Jour), Chakiris (West Side Story), Gene Kelly (Singing in the rain)having such a good time dancing and singing in this great french musical, directed by amazing Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)on the music of one of the most famous composers Michel Legrand ("Thomas Crown affair" "Summer 42"...)and will never forget it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great escapism, 29 Nov 2003
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I watch this video regularly, and never tire of it. The music is good and catchy and the whole film provides escapism entertainment. Definitely worth buying
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