IMDb plot summary: Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.
Directed by Jacques Demy. Starring Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, and Jacques Perrin.
While director Jacques Demy's previous musical, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, came across more like a sung-through drama, this is musical romantic comedy through and through, with clear delineations between songs, many of which don't further the plot at all. But that's not a negative in the least because these songs are MARVELOUS. Some incredibly striking dance sequences and such visually stunning colors and a sense of joy and play running through the whole film. Partway through we even get a sudden "there's a murderer on the loose" subplot out of nowhere and it still isn't nearly enough to make the film feel anything other than delightful. This has been on my "I really should have seen this" list for a long time, and it's easily on my shortlist for comfort films to watch next time I'm feeling down.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Young Girls of Rochefort > Monsters
The Young Girls of Rochefort > La La Land (what an appropos match-up!)
The Young Girls of Rochefort > The Disaster Artist
The Young Girls of Rochefort < The Orphanage
The Young Girls of Rochefort < And Now for Something Completely Different
The Young Girls of Rochefort > Rurouni Kenshin
The Young Girls of Rochefort > Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
The Young Girls of Rochefort > Dick Tracy
The Young Girls of Rochefort > Savannah Smiles
The Young Girls of Rochefort > Life of Brian
The Young Girls of Rochefort > 25th Hour
The Young Girls of Rochefort > Nosferatu
Final spot: #323 out of 3441, or 91%.
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