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Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)

Director: Jacques Demy

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From Time Out Film Guide

Jolliest of the Demy-Michel Legrand operettas, sometimes wholly entrancing (especially the ecstatic Darrieux-Piccoli celebration of long lost love), but also foolishly inviting comparison with the Hollywood musical by borrowing Gene Kelly (painfully awkward in toupee and dubbed voice) and a couple of alumni from West Side Story (accompanied by a good deal of pastiche Jerome Robbins choreography). The result lacks the delicate purity of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but makes up for it with boundless vitality and the ravishing spectacle of Rochefort itself, with the town square freshly repainted as a pastel-coloured dreamscape.

Author: TM

Time Out Film Guide

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Cast & crew

Director: Jacques Demy

Producer: Mag Bodard, Gilbert de Goldschmidt

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, Gene Kelly, Jacques Perrin, Henri Crémieux full cast

Genre(s): Musicals

Duration: 126 mins


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