Trois Places pour le 26 (1988)
Genre: Music
Duration: 106 minuten
Alternative title: Three Places for the 26th
Country:
France
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Stars: Yves Montand, Mathilda May and Patrick Fierry
IMDb score:
6,3 (504)
Releasedate: 23 November 1988
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Trois Places pour le 26 plot
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseille, the city where he grew up, to prepare for his international tour. Especially now that he's here, he has to think more and more about his childhood sweetheart Mylène. In Marseilles he meets a young woman named Marion, whose mother seems to have known him.
Actors and actresses
Yves Montand
Marion
Toni Fontaine
Mylene de Lambert
Fonteneau
Serge
Michael
Le Capitaine
Directeur de l'hôtel
Derderian
Reviews & comments
Bobbejaantje
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- 2310 messages
- 2096 votes
The very last film by Jacques Demy and for me also the last film of his that I had to watch. And I think it's a farewell with a bang. The film combines the visual flair of his early successes (Les Umbrellas de Cherbourg, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort), a risqué and increasingly uncomfortable incest theme (featured in Peau d'Ane), music by Michel Legrand … and the belief in love does come out anyway. It is certainly also a homage from Demy to his sources of inspiration, in particular the American musical, some of which have been incorporated into Yves Montand's show. Yves Montand is the star of this film. At that time he was fin de career, but it is the first time that he dances and sings in a French film. In fact, it is also a homage by Montand to the same American musical of which Demy is an adept. It's amazing how reality and fiction are intertwined here. At one point Montand brings a medley of American classics to the stage, including a song by Marilyn Monroe. Meanwhile, we see some of her lookalikes on stage, knowing that Montand had a relationship with Monroe in real life. Demy therefore wrote this film especially for Montand. The rest of the cast can certainly also be there with Mathilda May as a great sidekick. Certain twists in the story come across as a bit naive, but I'll take that further. Legrand's music also appealed to me even though his signature style went through the 80s mill.
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