#719: DEMY, Jacques: Une Chambre En Ville (1982)

THE ESSENTIAL JACQUES DEMY {Spine #713}

DEMY, Jacques (France)

Une Chambre En Ville [1982]

Spine #719
Blu-ray

In this musical melodrama set against the backdrop of a workers' strike in Nantes, Dominique Sanda plays a young woman who wishes to leave her brutish husband (Michel Piccoli) for an earthy steelworker (Richard Berry), though he is involved with another. Unbeknownst to the girl, the object of her affection boards with her no-nonsense baroness mother (Danielle Darrieux). A late-career triumph from Jacques Demy, Une chambre en ville received nine César Award nominations and features a rich, operatic score by Michel Colombier.

93 minutes
Color

2.0 Surround

in French

1:66:1 aspect ratio

Criterion Release 2014

Director/Writer

Jacques Demy was 51 when he wrote and directed Une Chambre en Ville.

Other Demy films in the Collection:

#714: Lola (1961)
#715: Bay Of Angels (1963)
#716: The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (1964)
#717: The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
#718: Donkey Skin (1970)

The Film

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras 

The Booklet

Seventy-two page booklet featuring an essay — Love and Death — by Geoff Andrew; and Jacques Demy and Nantes: The Roots of Enchantment by Jean-Pierre Berthomé.

Commentary

None.

Jacques Demy, A to Z

A visual essay by film critic James Quandt.

Q&A

With Demy from the 1987 Midnight Sun Film Festival.

Agnès Varda’s documentary 1

The World of Jacques Demy (1995) {Spine #0000B}.

Agnès Varda’s documentary 2

The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993) {Spine #0000B}.

Restoration demonstration

Trailer

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

99

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