Les Demoiselles De Rochefort 1967 Best |link| -

Reviewers and historians frequently cite specific elements that make it "the best" of Demy's filmography alongside The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Cinematographer Ghislain Cloquet (and uncredited help from Jean Rabier) drenches every frame in pastels: pinks, mint greens, lemon yellows. Rochefort was actually a gray, rainy town, but Demy had every storefront, shutter, and fence repainted. The result is a hyperreal, dreamlike France that never existed — and yet feels more true than documentary footage. The is the sisters in matching orange dresses, walking under a canopy of blue-and-white striped awnings, their reflection bouncing off a rain-slicked street after a sudden storm. It is painterly, melancholy, and ecstatic at once. les demoiselles de rochefort 1967 best