The girls from Rochefort
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The girls from Rochefort |
| Original title | Les Demoiselles de Rochefort |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Demy |
| script | Jacques Demy |
| production | Gilbert de Goldschmidt |
| music | Michel Legrand |
| camera | Ghislain Cloquet |
| cut | Jean Hamon |
| occupation | |
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The Girls of Rochefort (Original: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort ) is a French film musical from 1967. After The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1963), this was Jacques Demy's second film, in which a large number of the dialogues are sung.
action
Delphine and Solange are twin sisters who live in Rochefort . Delphine is a dance teacher and Solange teaches the piano. The young poet and painter Maxence, who is doing his military service here, and the Parisian merchant Simon Dame, who came to Rochefort because he fell in love there ten years earlier, also live in Rochefort. His former love Yvonne, who did not marry him because she did not want to be called Madame Dame, is the mother of Delphine and Solange.
With her lover, the art dealer Guillaume, Delphine discovers a portrait that is strikingly similar to herself. It is the "ideal féminin" of a young painter who has already left. In fact, the young man, Maxence, is still in Rochefort, looking for the real model for his fantasy portrait. Although he often comes to Yvonne's bistro, he barely misses Delphine every time.
A woman murderer is going on in Rochefort. Now it is the old dancer Lola-Lola that he has dismembered. At the scene of the crime, the police - singing of course - wipe the blood from the sidewalk. This is where Maxence and Delphine's sister Solange meet. All the main characters meet one after the other in a dance, but the lovers miss each other. Soange briefly meets the American composer Andy, who in turn visits his old friend Simon Dame. The encounter between Solange and Andy becomes “love at first sight”.
The young truck drivers Bill and Étienne, apparently a bisexual male couple presenting a revue, lose their two dancers Judith and Esther. The women move on with two sailors. They persuade Delphine and Solange to represent them and to travel to Paris with them. In the evening, Yvonne, Solange and Delphine find out that the good family friend Subtil Dutrouz cut up the dancer Lola-Lola out of spurned love. Yvonne's employee mentions that he numbered her individual body parts after all.
On the day of departure, Solange meets Andy and when Yvonne learns that instead of Solange a certain Simon Dame is supposed to pick up her little son Boubou from school, she rushes there. The former lovers are united - only Delphine and Maxence miss each other again and again. Delphine breaks up with Guillaume and announces that he wants to look for Maxence in Paris.
Until then, stay with Andy, Yvonne becomes Madame Dame - and Delphine and the waitress Josette sit in the car with Bill and Étienne in Paris. On the highway, the car stops for a hitchhiker. Before the hitchhiker, it's Maxence, and dolphins meet, the canvas turns blue.
background
In order to let the film shine in the planned color dramaturgy, 40,000 square meters of house facades on Colbert Platz and in the adjacent streets were repainted. All in a brilliant white, with accents in light blue, pink, turquoise and yellow. The costumes by Jacqueline Moreau are also mainly kept in these colors.
All leading actors (with the exception of Danielle Darrieux ) were dubbed for the vocal scenes.
Reviews
“Stylized colors, music and dance movements condense into a lively and loving homage to the American film musical, which is characterized above all by the tender affection for the people. Romance and illusionary play combine to create a, in a positive sense, naive reflection on people's need for happiness. "
Awards
The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Music in 1969 .
Web links
- The Young Girls of Rochefort in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Rochefort Girls. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .