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A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. François abandons his pregnant girlfriend Violette. She feels treated even more unjust when he tries to defend and excuse his behaviour. He had met a very beautiful over-class girl, Edith, and both were immediately overwhelmed by genuine and reciprocal passion. Edith lived in a very unsatisfactory marriage. She was the daughter of the widow from which François rented his room. Nevertheless, he met her in the street, where she just opened her fur coat and was starch naked under it. They will be together in great passion for just one night and day. At the demonstration François is shot by the police and dies in Edith s arms. - The music is closer to opera than in any other film musical by Jacques Demy. But the greatest difference is that he has devoted much more effort to the task of instructing the singers to reveal the psychic emotions of the text and events.
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
1969, Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve,George Chakiris,Françoise Dorléac,Jacques Perrin,Michel Piccoli,Jacques Riberolles,Grover Dale,Geneviève Thénier,Henri Crémieux,Pamela Hart,Leslie North,Patrick Jeantet,Gene Kelly,Danielle Darrieux,René Pascal
Donkey Skin
1970, Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve,Jean Marais,Jacques Perrin,Micheline Presle,Delphine Seyrig,Fernand Ledoux,Henri Crémieux,Sacha Pitoëff,Pierre Repp,Jean Servais,Georges Adet,Annick Berger,Romain Bouteille,Louise Chevalier,Sylvain Corthay
The ubrellas of Cherbourg
1964, Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve,Nino Castelnuovo,Anne Vernon,Marc Michel,Ellen Farner,Mireille Perrey,Jean Champion,Pierre Caden,Jean-Pierre Dorat,Bernard Fradet,Michel Benoist,Philippe Dumat,Dorothée Blanck,Jane Carat,Harald Wolff
Lola
1961, Jacques Demy, Anouk Aimée,Marc Michel,Jacques Harden,Alan Scott,Elina Labourdette,Margo Lion,Annie Duperoux,Catherine Lutz,Corinne Marchand,Yvette Anziani,Dorothée Blanck,Isabelle Lunghini,Annick Noël,Ginette Valton,Anne Zamire
Bay of Angels
1963, Jacques Demy, Jeanne Moreau,Claude Mann,Paul Guers,Henri Nassiet,André Certes,Nicole Chollet,Georges Alban,Conchita Parodi,Jacques Moreau,André Canter,Jean-Pierre Lorrain
Une Chambre en Ville
1982, Jacques Demy, Dominique Sanda,Danielle Darrieux,Richard Berry,Michel Piccoli,Fabienne Guyon,Anna Gaylor,Jean-François Stévenin,Jean-Louis Rolland,Marie-France Roussel,Georges Blaness,Yann Dedet,Nicolas Hossein,Gil Warga,Antoine Mikola,Marie-Pierre Feuillard
