The Young Girls of Rochefort

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The Young Girls of Rochefort

G

1967

2h 6m

Musical

Romance

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Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange (Françoise Dorléac) are twin sisters who each want to find romance and leave their small seaside town of Rochefort, France. Soon they befriend a couple of visiting carnival workers who frequent their lonely mother's (George Chakiris) café and hire the girls to sing in the carnival. Wanting a career as a songwriter, Solange falls for an American musician, Andy (Jacques Perrin), while Delphine dumps her beau and searches Rochefort for her ideal man.

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Critics Consensus

The Young Girls of Rochefort pays colorful homage to classic Hollywood musicals while earning its own emotionally affecting place of honor in the genre.

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Carey Harrison

Sight & Sound

03/19/2020

It must be allowed that [Jacques] Demy is an habitual offender on the count of sentimentality... yet he is capable of a tender, unsentimenial euphoria more intoxicating than any other film work in the field of sentimental farce.

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Melissa Anderson

Village Voice

04/08/2014

A euphoric swirl of sherbet colors, Jacques Demy's Hollywood-musical homage The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) elevates even the most mundane actions to the spectacular ...

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Keith Uhlich

Time Out

04/08/2014

5/5

Despite the consistently sprightly surface, there's a somber undercurrent that lingers even when love triumphs and the music swells.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

04/10/2022

3/4

It bypasses the more intimate style of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg to pay homage to splashy Hollywood musicals.

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Robert Kotlowitz

Harper's Magazine

08/04/2020

This follow-up to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is the French at their least charming, being a nearly unbearably coy Gallic imitation of an MGM musical dating from the heyday of Gene Kelly.

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David Harris

Spectrum Culture

09/30/2019

Life's regrets aren't often the basis of a movie musical, yet French director Jacques Demy is best known for his two films that fit that exact description.

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Kimberly

04/18/2025

Absolute brilliance.

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Henry D

@Henry_Domke 2d

Pure fluff and pure fun. It was high modern European entertainment. Lots of music and dancing, much in the style of The Swingle Singers.

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Ishara L

@RT56911979 May 3

An absolute delight. A movie for people that experience living as a festival. A movie for dreamers. A movie for hopeless romantics. The colours. The framing. It's just elevating!

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Oct 30

Success in 2 hours and 6 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Filmed in 1967 in color!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dubbed and subtitled in worldwide studios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All ages admitted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Madeline N

@RT21040907 Oct 2

French frivolity at its finest. -1 star for being, well, frivolous.

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Ed .

@RT01276001 Aug 29

Thank heaven for young girls. Actually, more like young ladies. Roquefort-y but boisterous old fashioned musical with French flair and some American dance moves by Gene Kelly. The film looks like a giant Easter celebration with its color coordinated clothing in pale pastels. I am still confused at how a woman would walk away from love simply due to her paramour's last name. It wasn't even a name like Hitler or Stalin. Had their lives crossed paths in the same era, imagine Demi Moore marrying the music shop owner and then receiving an honorific by the British monarch - she would have been Dame Demi Dame. Also, could an American actor/dancer of Greek ancestry, as George Chakiris is, be chosen for the role of Etienne if made today? Quelle horreur for the French PC crowd.

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Synopsis

Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange (Françoise Dorléac) are twin sisters who each want to find romance and leave their small seaside town of Rochefort, France. Soon they befriend a couple of visiting carnival workers who frequent their lonely mother's (George Chakiris) café and hire the girls to sing in the carnival. Wanting a career as a songwriter, Solange falls for an American musician, Andy (Jacques Perrin), while Delphine dumps her beau and searches Rochefort for her ideal man.

Director: Jacques Demy
Producer: Mag Bodard, Gilbert de Goldschmidt
Screenwriter: Jacques Demy
Distributor: Miramax Films, Warner Bros., Miramax Home Entertainment [us], Miramax Zoë
Production Co: Parc Film, Madeleine Films
Rating: G
Genre: Musical, Romance
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 8, 1967, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 11, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $88.5K
Runtime: 2h 6m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1), 35mm