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Jacques Demy has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Young Girls of Rochefort.
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In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.
Dir. Jacques Demy · With Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
Dir. Jacques Demy · With Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin, Jean Marais
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Dir. Jacques Demy · With Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Dir. Jacques Demy · With Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.
Dir. Jacques Demy · With Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers