The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort)

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Cast

Catherine Deneuve
as Delphine Garnier

Françoise Dorléac
as Solange Garnier

Gene Kelly
as Andy Miller

Danielle Darrieux
as Yvonne Garnier

George Chakiris
as Etienne

Grover Dale
as Bill

Jacques Perrin
as Maxence

Michel Piccoli
as Simon Dame

Pamela Hart
as Judith

Leslie North
as Esther

Jacques Riberolles
as Guillaume Lancien

Henri Crémieux
as Dutrouz

Patrick Jeantet
as Boubou

Genevieve Thenier
as Josette

René Bazart
as Pepe

Dorothy Blanck
as Passerby

Agnès Varda
as Nun

Daniel Mocquay
as Sailor

Peter Ardran
as Dancer

Wendy Barry
as Dancer

Sarah Butler
as Dancer

Ann Chapman
as Dancer

Dorothée Blanc
as Passerby

Jane Darling
as Dancer

Tudor Davies
as Dancer

W. Earl Brown

Lindsay Dolan
as Dancer

John MacDonald
as Dancer

Keith Drummond
as Dancer

Maureen Evans
as Dancer

Tara Fernando
as Dancer

Sara Flemington
as Dancer

Johnny Greenland
as Dancer

Leo Guerard
as Dancer

David Hepburn
as Dancer

Bob Howe
as Dancer

Alix Kirsta
as Dancer

Tony Manning
as Dancer

Tom Merrifield
as Dancer

Connel Miles
as Dancer

Albin Pahernik
as Dancer

Barrie Wilkinson
as Dancer

Maureen Willsher
as Dancer

Sue Allen
as Singer

George E. Becker
as Singer

Ronald D. Hicklin
as Singer

Frank Allen Howren
as Singer

Thomas D. Kenny
as Singer

Judith E. Lawler
as Singer

Bill Lee
as Singer

Diana K. Lee
as Singer

Gilda Maiken
as Singer

Gene Merlino
as Singer

Joseph A. Pryor
as Singer

Ronald T. Reeve
as Singer

Sally Stevens
as Singer

Sara Jane Tallman
as Singer

Robert Tebow
as Singer

Jackie Ward
as Singer

Bernard Fradet
as Second Agent

Remy Brozeck
as Third Agent

Daniel Gall
as Second Sailor

Veronique Duval
as A Woman

Pierre Caden
as First Man

Romuald
as Etienne

Jose Bartel
as Bill

Jacques Revaux
as Maxence

Georges Blaness
as Simon Dame

Christiane Legrand
as Judith

Claudine Meunier
as Esther

Olivier Bonnett
as Boubou

Alice Gerald
as Josette

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Critic Reviews for The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort)

Audience Reviews for The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort)

• Aug 07, 2017

  A more traditional musical from Demy with some truly delightful songs. He still finds a way to make it all incredibly weird which makes for an interesting mesh of style and genre.
  

  Alec B Super Reviewer
• Jun 03, 2015

  In "The Young Girls of Rochefort," twin sisters Delphine(Catherine Deneuve) and Solange(Francoise Dorleac) teach music in a small town, dreaming of the big city, while their mother Yvonne(Danielle Darrieux) tends bar. In the meantime, the big city will just have to come to them when the carnival comes to town. So, when Etienne(George Chakiris) and Bill(Grover Dale) are not performing, they also have the time to pick up Yvonne's younger son Boubou(Patrick Jeantet) from school. Pulling off an old-fashioned musical could be a challenge at the best of times, but considering "The Young Girls of Rochefort" was made after they went out of fashion, this was an all the more impressive and entertaining win for Jacques Demy, fitting it also nicely into the wider Demyverse. But the movie does get weighed down by enough plot for ten movies that also includes a running joke about a character's name being Dame, a Gemini spaceship reference that I got despite being born a year after this movie was made and I am pretty sure there was also a murder mystery somewhere. At the same time, there is Michel Piccoli singing, Catherine Deneuve playing the trumpet and Gene Kelly singing in French and dancing, showing he still had it in his second to last film role.
  Walter M Super Reviewer
• Aug 12, 2014

  What an irresistible offer: ? Catherine Deneuve ? Françoise Dorléac ? Gene Kelly as, once again, an American in Paris ? Agnès Varda having a cameo as a nun who buys music (hah!) ? Eastmancolor ? Musical numbers ? Dance! ? References to a "Lola-Lola" and the famous town of Cherbourg ? Idealistic love everywhere ? Numerous moments that, by the time they end, you realize you've been smiling like an idiot for several minutes straight looking at the screen ? And maybe the best of it all: characters singing rhythmically and with rhymes about an ax/saw murderer that hacks victims to bits ...all of this brought thanks to Demy's increasing international presence as a musical director borrowing the Hollywood tradition for then developing it in unexplored ways (which was a source of criticism against him), and of course, Varda's constant enthusiastic restorations of films directed by Demy. Pure escapism. 79/100
  Edgar C Super Reviewer
• May 01, 2011

  The musical numbers seriously look like they came out of a porno - but a charming, classy, softcore kind of porno (especially the twins one!). That's pretty much how I'd describe this entire movie - innocently, campily sexual.
  Jennifer X Super Reviewer

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