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Les Demoiselles Ont Eu 25 Ans (1993)

Documentary | 64 minutes
3,50 2 votes

Genre: Documentary / Music

Duration: 64 minuten

Alternative title: The Young Girls Turn 25

Country: France

Directed by: Agnès Varda

Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Agnès Varda and Michel Legrand

IMDb score: 7,0 (601)

Releasedate: 19 May 1993

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Les Demoiselles Ont Eu 25 Ans plot

"Perhaps the memory of happiness is the same as happiness itself"

Documentary in tribute to Jacques Demy and his work Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, a film shot in the summer of 1966. The city of Rochefort hosted a huge party in 1992 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the film's 1967 release. Agnès Varda took the opportunity to realize this documentary by mixing images of the retrospective with recordings from 1966 (also by Varda), fragments, interviews with actors and extras from Rochefort who took part in the shooting of the film.

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In this documentary, the late Agnès Varda - widow of Jacques Demy - films the festivities that took place in 1992 in the French town of Rochefort on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967). It is a flashback to the time of the filming - 1966 - which was a cultural highlight tout court for the sleepy town that Rochefort was. The mayor - in 1992 - also tells what a positive impact the film had on the economic recovery of Rochefort.

It is a documentary in which nostalgia hangs in the air - of course. For the occasion, the survivors were invited: Catherine Deneuve, composer Michel Legrand (who died in 2019) and a number of crew members. Moving moments such as the commemoration of the actress - and sister of Deneuve - Françoise Dorléac who died in the year of the accident in 1967 and the recently deceased Jacques Demy. But above all, this documentary is also an ode to the town and its inhabitants who experienced the event of their lives in 1966. In retrospect, the images of the funfair in Demy's film turn out to be a gigantic home video for the inhabitants that they can't stop talking about, spiced with equally moving anecdotes.

This documentary dates from 1992/93, which means that 28 years have passed since then, even more than the celebrated anniversary, and has in itself become a piece of nineties nostalgia when you look at the appearance of the interviewees, as well as the moment when one of the residents proudly produces a video cassette of the Demoiselles film and confesses that she carries it with her always and everywhere.

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Very nice documentary with indeed (as Bobbejaantje already says) moving images of how the residents of Rochefort remember the recordings, but also the behind-the-scenes videos that Varda himself made in 1966 are worth gold: Demy and Legrand at the piano, Deneuve and Dorléac strengthening their sisterly ties, Demy about Kelly's presence, and Deneuve, Dorléac, Chakiris and Dale practicing dancing together - you can imagine that everyone had a lot of fun during the shooting despite the hard work. And the reactions of the residents of Rochefort also made me think of all those residents of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre who still regularly watch Jour de fête: "not because of the film itself, because we can dream up the jokes by now, but to see what our village looked like in 1947." You wish every favorite movie could have a reunion like this, with a camera crew at the ready.

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