The Young Girls of Rochefort

The Young Girls of Rochefort French Les Demoiselles de Rochefort literally The Young Ladies of Rochefort is a 1967 French musical film written and directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve, her sister Franoise Dorlac, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli, Danielle Darrieux, George Chakiris, Grover Dale and Gene Kelly. The choreography was by Norman Maen.

The Young Girls of Rochefort takes place over the course of one weekend in the seaside town of Rochefort, where a fair is coming to the town square. The story centers on twin sisters Delphine Deneuve and Solange Dorlac Delphine teaches ballet classes and Solange gives music lessons for a living, but each longs to find her ideal love and a life outside of Rochefort. When the fair comes to town, Delphine and Solange meet two smoothtalking but kindhearted carnies, tienne George Chakiris and Bill Grover Dale.The twins mother Yvonne Danielle Darrieux owns a caf in the center of town, and pines for a fianc she left impulsively ten years before due to his embarrassing last name of Dame. Yvonnes caf becomes a central hub for tienne and Bill as well as most of the other characters in the film. In the caf, Yvonne meets a sailor about to be demobbed from the navy, Maxence Jacques Perrin. Maxence is a poet and painter, and is searching for his true feminine ideal. Little does Yvonne know, her former fianc, Simon Dame Michel Piccoli, has recently opened a music store in Rochefort. He knows his fiance had twins from a previous relationship, but he never met them. Solange, an aspiring songwriter, enlists the help of Simon Dame she is unaware of his relationship with her mother, who promises to introduce her to his successful American colleague Andy Miller Gene Kelly. As Solange is on her way to pick up her younger brother BouBou from school, she happens to bump into a charming foreigner, who turns out to be Andy. However, the two do not exchange names. ........

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