Directed by:
Jacques DemyScreenplay:
Jacques DemyCinematography:
Ghislain CloquetComposer:
Michel LegrandCast:
Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli, Gene Kelly, Danielle Darrieux, Agnès Varda, Dorothée Blanck (more)VOD (1)
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Jacques Demy followed up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, and Gene Kelly), The Young Girls of Rochefort is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema’s preeminent dreamer. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Catherine Deneuve
France
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
George Chakiris
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
West Side Story (1961)
The Country Girl (1954)
Françoise Dorléac
France
Best movies:
The Soft Skin (1964)
That Man from Rio (1964)
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin (1962)
Jacques Perrin
France
Best movies:
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
The Chorus (2004)
State of Siege (1972)
Michel Piccoli
France
Best movies:
Un amour de pluie (1974)
Milou in May (1990)
Mado (1976)
Gene Kelly
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Danielle Darrieux
France
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
Marie-October (1959)
Holy Year (1976)
Agnès Varda
Belgium
Best movies:
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
The Truth About Charlie (2002)
Dorothée Blanck
German Empire
Best movies:
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Anna (1967) (TV movie)
Henri Crémieux
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale (1963)
The President (1961)
Geneviève Thénier
France
Best movies:
The Seven Deadly Sins (1961)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Once Upon a Time (1970)
Jacques Riberolles
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1982)
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer (1965)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Georges Blaness
Algeria
Best movies:
La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
René Pascal
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Casque d'Or (1952)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Anne Chapman
Best movies:
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (1968)
Anne Germain
France
Best movies:
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Once Upon a Time (1970)
That's Show Business (1975)