The Young Girls of Rochefort

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Jonathan G Oh my god, Gene Kelly absolutely rocked with this. Catherine Denueve once AGAIN gives a beautiful performance in this French musical comedy with a subplot about an axe murderer? This might just be a new favorite comfort film for me, just how gorgeous and bright it is, how amazing the songs are, and just how sweet the dialogue. This film is why I just love picking out random films from the criterion collection to hit, and this doesn't disappoint for even a minute. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/08/24 Full Review Alec B 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. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/03/24 Full Review Audience Member I have seen this movie with no translation as I can speak french, the lyrics are selected with a great sensation , the music is superb and completely harmonized with each word, this movie can be considered as one of the best musical films in the 20 century. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member ‘Les Demoiselles de Rochefort’ may be Jacques Demy's most frivolous film but it's also a masterpiece; a musical that owes almost everything to Minnelli, not to mention Donen and Kelly as well as Demy himself with touches of both ‘Lola’ and ‘Les Parapluies de Cherbourg’ very much to the fore. It also has one of the great scores, (by Michel Legrand), of any musical with lyrics by Demy himself and a cast headed by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac, American musical stars George Chakiris, Grover Dale and Gene Kelly himself, as well as Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli and Jacques Perrin. The plot is lighter than a soufflé and Ghislain Cloquet's cinematography, positively ravishing. It isn't as well known as ‘Les Parapluies de Cherbourg’ but it's certainly it's equal. I think it's one of the greatest musicals ever made. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member The Young Girls Of Rochefort is the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. The music is the best ever written. This movie is magic and even heaven like.You can see that god enlightened everyone involved with this grand production. Costumes in the movie were light,pretty and feminine on the female stars. The dancer danced gracefully, the dancers were also so good as to bring the movie emotion, nearly as much as the actors. The first time that I saw the movie I was about Fourteen years old. When I saw it at 14 I loved it so much that I had to buy the soundtrack which was in french. That was 34 years ago and I believe that all generations will enjoy this movie, and the dancers do a version of the moonwalk; who would think it. I have the DVD movie and the soundtrack in French. When I saw the movie for the first time in 1972 the movie was in English. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member I did not think there was a cure to the toppling depression which I was left in after The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but Jacques Demy managed to make do just that, through one of the great delightful cinematic experiences. I don't usually write reviews on rotten tomatoes, but this really should be one of the most appreciated French films ever made. I am not saying that it is overlooked, because it's certainly not that, and I definitely have no problems with Cherbourg, which is Demy's most well known picture in this country. I merely wish that this would get the same attention, because it deserves all that, and much more. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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