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Summary:

A musical about missed connections and second chances. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Deneuve and Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape.

Contributors:

Demy, Jacques , screenwriter, film director, composer

Bodard, Mag, 1916-2019 , presenter, film producer

Goldschmidt, Gilbert de , presenter, film producer

Deneuve, Catherine, 1943- , actor

Chakiris, George , actor

Dorléac, Françoise , actor

Perrin, Jacques, 1941- , actor

Piccoli, Michel, 1925-2020 , actor

Dale, Grover , actor

Crémieux, Henri, 1896-1980 , actor

Kelly, Gene, 1912-1996 , actor

Darrieux, Danielle, 1917-2017 , actor

Maen, Norman, 1932-2008 , choreographer

Cloquet, Ghislain , director of photography

Evein, Bernard, 1929-2006 , production designer

Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019 , composer

Hamon, Jean , film editor

Moreau, Jacqueline, 1929- , costume designer

Fouquet, Marie Claude , costume designer

Berthomé, Jean-Pierre , interviewer

Delvaux, André, 1926-2002 , filmmaker

Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019 , filmmaker

Janus Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Ciné Tamaris (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Parc Film (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Madeleine Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Criterion Collection (Firm) , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Languages:

French
English

Language Notes:

French dialogue; optional English subtitles.

Main Work:

Demoiselles de Rochefort (Motion picture)

Related Series:

Criterion collection; [volume] 713

Criterion collection; [volume] 717

Essential Jacques Demy

Alternate Titles:

English title on container: Young girls of Rochefort

Subjects:

Twins — France — Drama

Rochefort (France) — Drama

Man-woman relationships — France — Drama

Twins

Man-woman relationships

France — Rochefort

France

Genres:

Motion pictures

New wave films

Musical films

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Fantasy films

Feature films

Fiction films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Motion pictures — France

French language films

Foreign language films

Drama

System Details:

DVD: NTSC, region 1, Dolby digital 5.1 surround, 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

Performers:

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorleac, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Riberolles, Grover Dale, Geneviève Thénier, Henri Cremieux, Pamela Hart, Leslie North, Patrick Jeantet, Gene Kelly, Danielle Darrieux.

Production Credits:

Choreographer, Norman Maen ; cinematography, Ghislain Cloquet ; production designer, Bernard Evein ; music written and directed by Michel Legrand ; editor, Jean Hamon ; costumes, Jacqueline Moreau, Marie Claude Fouquet.

General Notes:

Released as part of the Essential Jacques Demy collection.
Originally released as motion picture in 1967.
Special features: Cinéma (interview from 1966 episode of the French television program Cinéma, director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand talk about their process for creating music for the film); Jean-Pierre Berthomé and Jacqueline Moreau (film scholar Berthomé talks to costume desinger Moreau, the wife of production designer Bernard Evein, about her and her husband's decades-long collaboration with director Jacques Demy); Behind the screen (part two of a six-part series about the production of the film for the Belgian television program Behind the Screen by filmmaker André Delvaux in 1966); The young girls turn 25 (1993 documentary on the making of the film, filmmaker Agnès Varda, Demy's widow, returned to Rochefort for the film's 25th anniversary, interviews with actors); Trailer.

Physical Description:

1 videodiscs (126 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; surround; Dolby Digital 5.1

Video Characteristics:

laser optical; NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

YOU 1967 DVD

ISBNs:

9781604658637
1604658630
9781604658590 (set)
1604658592 (set)

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515119016 (set)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC2376BDDVD (set)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC2376BDDVD-7 (Young girls Blu-ray)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC2376BDDVD-8 (Young girls DVD)

OCLC Numbers:

977224797