The Young Girls Of Rochefort -1967- Criterion -... -

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Jacques Demy and production designer Bernard Evein transformed the actual city of Rochefort into a living backlot. The Young Girls of Rochefort -1967- Criterion -...

But if you need a reminder that cinema can be pure, unironic pleasure —that a camera can spin, that colors can sing, that two sisters in matching sundresses can dance through a French square to a jazz sextet—then there is nothing better. Released in 1967, this film is the sunlit

He describes the musical form here not as a story with "musical eruptions," but as a "continuous state of delirious being" where pedestrians might suddenly start dancing around a walking star. That changed definitively with the release of edition

Released in 1967, this film is the sunlit counterweight to Demy’s own heartbreaking The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). While Umbrellas used sung-through dialogue to explore the tragedy of lost love, Rochefort explodes onto the screen with the vibrancy of a freshly opened box of crayons. For decades, accessing this masterpiece in its full, intended glory was a challenge. That changed definitively with the release of edition.

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