The Young Girls of Rochefort

Details

Release year: 1967

Storyline

Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.

Top credits

Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

Did you know

• Danielle Darrieux is the only actor who actually sings for herself.

• Before Jacques Demy selected Rochefort as the location for this movie, he also considered Avignon, Hyeres, Toulouse, and La Rochelle among others. Rochefort won out because of the size of its central square, though production designer Bernard Evein found it necessary to repaint 40,000 square meters of the city's façades.

• Agnès Varda: French new-wave director (director Jacques Demy's wife), in the film as a nun who visits the music shop.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $91,837

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Technical specs

Sound mix

70 mm 6-Track, Mono

Aspect ratio

2.20 : 1, 2.35 : 1

Color

Color

FAQ

• Several times throughout the movie, a chime of church bells is heard in the background. Are these from the church visible near the central square of Rochefort? Were they picked up at random during recording, or were they added intentionally by the filmmaker?