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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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12 reviews😍
Sur Arte replay. 2ème film de Jacques Demy que je regarde cette semaine grâce au replay d’Arte. Une belle découverte. La naissance d’une passion entre un ouvrier et une femme malheureuse en mariage dans un contexte de grève. Mais l’ouvrier a une copine qu’il n’aime pas. Le mari possessif de la femme va compliquer les choses. C’est un film chanté entièrement et ça donne de la couleur aux tons grisâtres du film. Les acteurs sont magnifiques. La fin est tragique , rien d’étonnant! J’aime aussi la durée du film , c’est clair et net !
Tourné en 1982. L'action se passe en 1955.
Avec Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli, Anna Gaylor, Jean-Francois Stevenin
Same director
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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
A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973, Jacques Demy, Marcello Mastroianni,Catherine Deneuve,Micheline Presle,Claude Melki,Mireille Mathieu,Maurice Biraud,Alice Sapritch,Jacques Legras,Marisa Pavan,André Falcon,Raymond Gérôme,Benjamin Legrand,Michèle Moretti,Madeleine Barbulée,Micheline Dax,Myriam Boyer,Andrée Tainsy,Tonie Marshall,Elizabeth Teissier
