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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2022

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.

| Aug 4, 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.

| Mar 19, 2020

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.

| Sep 30, 2019

They have very impressive dancing throughout and all the costumes and colors are so dazzling.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 26, 2019

From its opening jazzy dance on a ferry, which becomes a veritable magic carpet floating above a sparkling river before the scene is over, it's a delight.

| Mar 2, 2018

If Hollywood is the dream factory, Demy's The Young Girls of Rochefort is one heck of a factory knock-off. And being French, it has an oblique ending that also seems to have influenced [La La Land].

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 16, 2018

Hit musical La La Land drew inspiration from The Young Girls of Rochefort and it deserves revisitation; it is one of the greatest films of the 1960s.

| Jan 19, 2017

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 ...

| Apr 8, 2014

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

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 8, 2014

The true pleasures of The Young Girls of Rochefort are its smaller touches.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 6, 2013

The results are a bit like eating too much ice cream sundae.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 23, 2010

The fondant-fancy colours make the film all the more escapist, yet some pop songs can pierce you to the core.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2009

A very welcome rerelease of Demy's delightful 1967 musical.

| Aug 17, 2009

The result is uncommonly pleasing or defiantly twee: take your choice.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2009

An intriguing mix of French New Wave and Hollywood Musical, this still succeeds in sweeping you off your feet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2009

A luminous musical about dreams, romance and destiny which lovingly reworks the classic Hollywood 'putting on a show' template into an essay on the emotional rollercoaster ride that is movie-going.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 14, 2009

A decidedly old-fashioned delight.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2009

Reminiscent of a Shakespearean comedy and seems to tap into a romantic yearning that is hardwired into our DNA. Absolutely sublime.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 14, 2009

There's something irresistibly swinging, even promiscuous, about the whole affair.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2009