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Summary:

In this musical melodrama set against the backdrop of a workers' strike in Nantes, Dominique Sanda plays a young woman who wishes to leave her brutish husband for an earthy steelworker, though he is involved with another. Unbeknownst to the girl, the object of her affection boards with her no-nonsense baroness mother.

Contributors:

Demy, Jacques , screenwriter, film director

Gouze-Rénal, Christine, 1914-2002 , presenter, film producer

Sanda, Dominique, 1948- , actor

Darrieux, Danielle, 1917-2017 , actor, singer

Berry, Richard, 1950- , actor

Piccoli, Michel, 1925-2020 , actor

Guyon, Fabienne , actor, singer

Gaylor, Anna , actor

Stévenin, Jean-François , actor

Rolland, Jean-Louis, 1904-1985 , actor, singer

Roussel, Marie-France , actor, singer

Blaness, Georges , actor, singer

Hossein, Nicolas , actor

Dedet, Yann , actor

Colombier, Michel , composer

Penzer, Jean , director of photography

Evein, Bernard, 1929-2006 , production designer

Varda, Rosalie , costume designer

Mamou, Sabine, 1948-2003 , film editor

Quandt, James, 1956- , filmmaker

Bagh, Peter von, 1943-2014 , interviewer

Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019 , filmmaker, interviewee

Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019 , interviewee

Deneuve, Catherine, 1943- , interviewee

Moreau, Jeanne, 1928-2017 , interviewee

Aimée, Anouk, 1932- , interviewee

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

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

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

TF1 Films Production , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

U.G.C. (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Top 1 (Firm) , 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:

Chambre en ville (Motion picture)

Included Works:

World of Jacques Demy

Young girls turn 25

Related Series:

Criterion collection; [volume] 713

Criterion collection; [volume] 719

Essential Jacques Demy

Subjects:

Man-woman relationships — France — Drama

France — Social life and customs — Drama

Strikes and lockouts — France — Drama

Man-woman relationships

Manners and customs

Strikes and lockouts

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

Motion pictures — Italy

French language films

Foreign language films

Drama

System Details:

Blu-ray: region A; widescreen presentation; DTS-HD Master audio 2.0 or 5.1, mono or surround sound; requires Blu-ray player.
DVD: NTSC, region 1, Dolby digital 2.0 surround, 1.66:1 aspect ratio.

Performers:

Cast: Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli, Fabienne Guyon, Anna Gaylor, Jean-François Stevenin, Jean-Louis Rolland, Marie-France Roussel, Georges Blaness, Mapie Folliard, Monique Creteur, Gil Warga, Nicolas Hossein, Yann Dedet, Antoine Mikola, Patrick Joly; singers, Danielle Darrieux, Florence Davis, Liliane Davis, Fabienne Guyon, Marie-France Roussel, Jacques Revaux, Jean-Louis Rolland, Georges Blaness, Aldo Franck.

Production Credits:

Music, Michel Colombier ; director of photography, Jean Penzer ; production designer, Bernard Evein ; costumes, Rosalie Varda ; editor, Sabine Mamou.

General Notes:

Released as part of the Essential Jacques Demy collection.
Originally released as motion picture in 1982.
Special features: DVD Disc 1: Jacques Demy, A to Z (visual essay about the director by film scholar James Quandt); Jacques Demy at the Midnight Sun Film Festival (Q&A session from the 1987 Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Finland, moderated by Peter von Bagh); Restoration demonstration; Trailer. DVD Disc 2: The world of Jacques Demy (Agnès Varda directed and narrates this 1995 documentary about the life and career of her late husband, director Jacques Demy, archival interviews with Demy as well as interviews with composer Michel Legrand and actors Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Dominique Sanda, Jeanne Moreau, and Anouk Aimée); The young girls turn 25 (1993 documentary about the making of The young girls of Rochefort, filmmaker Agnès Varda returns to the town of Rochefort for the film's 25th anniversary). Blu-ray includes: Jacuqes Demy, A to Z; Jacques Demy at the Midnight Sun Film Festival; The world of Jacques Demy; Restoration demonstration; Trailer.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (93 min.) : Blu-ray, DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; surround; mono; DTS-HD 5.1; DTS-HD 2.0

Video Characteristics:

laser optical; NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; Blu-ray; region A

Call Numbers:

CHA 1982 BLU

ISBNs:

9781604658651
1604658657
9781604658590 (set)
1604658592 (set)

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515119016 (set)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC2376BDDVD (set)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC2376BDDVD-11 (Chambre Blu-ray)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC2376BDDVD-12 (Chambre DVD disc 1)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC2376BDDVD-13 (Chambre DVD disc 2)

OCLC Numbers:

1053592943