The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1968)
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Critic Consensus: The Young Girls of Rochefort pays colorful homage to classic Hollywood musicals while earning its own emotionally affecting place of honor in the genre.
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Cast
as Delphine Garnier
as Solange Garnier
as Andy Miller
as Yvonne Garnier
as Etienne
as Bill
as Maxence
as Simon Dame
as Judith
as Esther
as Guillaume Lancien
as Dutrouz
as Boubou
as Josette
as Pepe
as Passerby
as Nun
as Sailor
as Dancer
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as Second Agent
as Third Agent
as Second Sailor
as A Woman
as First Man
as Etienne
as Bill
as Maxence
as Simon Dame
as Judith
as Esther
as Boubou
as Josette
Critic Reviews for The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort)
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A euphoric swirl of sherbet colors, Jacques Demy's Hollywood-musical homage The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) elevates even the most mundane actions to the spectacular ...
Despite the consistently sprightly surface, there's a somber undercurrent that lingers even when love triumphs and the music swells.
A luminous musical about dreams, romance and destiny which lovingly reworks the classic Hollywood 'putting on a show' template into an essay on the emotional rollercoaster ride that is movie-going.
It has charm, sustained human observation, mixed with catchy music, dances and songs to come up as a tuner with grace and dynamism.
Certainly the best musical in some time.
Audience Reviews for The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort)
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.
Super Reviewer
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.
Super Reviewer
Marvelous, whimsical and fun. I can only rank this film second to the Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
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