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Derek Malcolm's rating
Demoiselles de Rochefort is infectious and exuberant
By
Derek Malcolm
14 Aug 2009
Jacques Demy’s 1967 companion piece to his highly popular The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is as exuberant as its predecessor, which seemed at the time like a French version of the MGM musicals of the Fifties.
Here we get the young Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorleac prancing about fake sets to the ineffable music of Michel Legrand.
The result is uncommonly pleasing or defiantly twee: take your choice.
But remember that to make a movie such as this and almost beat Hollywood at its own game was some feat in the Sixties, when the rest of the film world was obsessed with flower power.
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