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Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Directed by JACQUES DEMY

Starring CATHERINE DENEUVE FRANÇOISE DORLÉAC GEORGE CHAKIRIS

1967 AVAILABLE NOW on FilmStruck

Here’s a question: is Jacques Demy’s florid 1967 musical fantasia, , the greatest film musical of all time, or is it the greatest film, period? Here at towers, we would certainly swerve towards the latter assessment, such is its dangerous levels of charm, ebullience and eccentricity. With the help of a few pots of pastel-coloured paint, Demy transforms the sleepy, southwestern French burg of Rochefort into a heavenly