A Deneuve Dozen
THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT
DIRECTOR: JACQUES DEMY, AGNES VARDA
FRANCE, 1967
“Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac star in this big-budget tribute to the American musical as twin sisters in a tiny seaside town who dream of romance and life in the city. Demy packs his Cinemascope canvas with energetically choreographed dance numbers and eye-popping color, while Michel Legrand contributes some of the greatest music of his career. The casting of Gene Kelly is pure genius.”—BAM Cinematheque. “Demy pays tribute to the American musical yet mixes in accoutrements of French poetic realism: dreams and reality coexist more strangely and stubbornly than in most other musicals.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader. (125 mins.)