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

: A 1993 documentary by Agnès Varda that revisits the town of Rochefort 25 years after the original production.

is not just a film about happiness. It is happiness. It is the cinematic equivalent of a perfect summer day: fleeting, impossible to hold onto, but so beautiful while it lasts that you spend the rest of your life chasing the feeling. The Young Girls of Rochefort -1967- Criterion -...

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Jacques Demy’s 1967 musical masterpiece, The Young Girls of Rochefort Les Demoiselles de Rochefort ), is a centerpiece of the Criterion Collection : A 1993 documentary by Agnès Varda that

One of the film’s greatest curiosities is the presence of Gene Kelly. By 1967, Kelly was a god of MGM musicals. His casting was a strategic move by Demy, who wanted to pay homage to Singin’ in the Rain and An American in Paris . Kelly plays Andy Miller, a frustrated composer who drives a boat-shaped Cadillac. It is the cinematic equivalent of a perfect

The Criterion release allows modern audiences to appreciate the film’s most poignant subtext: the real-life bond between the two leads. Françoise Dorléac was a blazing talent—edgier, more cynical, and more volatile than her younger sister, Deneuve. Off-screen, they were inseparable. On-screen, their chemistry is electric, a genuine shorthand of sisterly exasperation and adoration.