Young Girls Of Rochefort DVD

In THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT, the follow up to the revolutionary UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1963), director Jacques Demy continues his experiments with narrative and the musical form, as well as his collaboration with composer Michel Legrand. Characters meet, story lines cross, families expand and all is expressed in booming song, exploding color, and elegant choreography. Catherine Deneuve and her real life sister, Francoise Dorleac play sisters who run a music and ballet school and in their spare time seek love and adventure. Their Mother runs a café in the Town Square which is the eye of the romantic and dramatic storm that runs through the film. A young sailor mopes at the café dreaming of an ideal love, a local music merchant regrets his lost love, a carnival enters town and two of its members convince the sisters to put on a spectacle. Gene Kelley makes an appearance, as do elements from many Hollywood musicals, added in pastiche. As the film reaches a hysterical and breakneck pace, lovers are lost and found, separated and reunited and the glittering, pastel glamour of the town of Rochefort plays a starring role. Love's endurance and the persistence of chance reign as the ridiculous and the sublime combine to create a cinematic experience unlike any other.

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.

Entertainment Weekly named THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT one of the top ten videos of 2000.

Young Girls Of Rochefort Reviews:

Ranked #8 in Entertainment Weekly's "BEST VIDEOS OF 2000" -- Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly

"...With candy-store colors and a script that combines a storybook romance with the pursuit of a serial killer....Among the most beautiful-looking films of the '60s..." -- Mike Clark, USA Today

"...Gorgeously mounted..." -- Mike Clark, USA Today

"...Demy's candy-colored cult musical....A ripe romanticism is made palatable by a game cast and intelligent filmmaking..." -- Rating: A- -- Tim Purtell, Entertainment Weekly

This is the only Francoise Dorléac video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Grover Dale, Jacques Riberolles.

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