Une Chambre en Ville (A Room in Town)

Scene not long before the end with Richard Berry and Dominique Sanda. Love across the class lines in Jacques Demy's powerful 1982 musical melodrama set against the violent 1955 naval shipyard workers strike in Nantes

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Sanda
• Berry
• Demy
• musical
• melodrama
• love
• sex
• violence
• soundtrack
• completely
• sung

[sixfootpianist]

Wonderful stuff! And we shall finally have the DVD come 5th November 2008, as part of "L'Intégrale" Jacques Demy boxset!

[sixfootpianist]

"La poupée

- Dans une armoire j'ai retrouvé ces boîtes. Dans cette maison, je revis toute une enfance, tout un passé que j'avais cru oublier. Cette poupée, tu vois, c'était la mienne. Je l'avais habillée moi-même. Ces souvenirs me rendent gaie et triste à la fois, ils me troublent et ils m'attendrissent comme toi, oh, mon François. Oh, mon amour, comme je t'aime ! Oh, mon François (amour), ma vie commence avec toi. Ce bonheur, c'est à toi que je le dois."

[koln1996]

This film is so rare and so wonderful.

It is a shame that it was a complete box-office fiasco, and very few people (I was one of them) outside France ever saw it.

Please post the entire movie!!!

[jinkdemy]

I got a very poor VHS copy from France but since the SECAM system doesn't work on PAL machines I had to get a copy made, making the final result even poorer. Then I digitised to CPD.

i'm in the middle of moving stuff but if you send me an address i'll (eventually) send you a copy.

DM

[jinkdemy]

I can only assume that the film is affected by some copyright problems. Unlike the other demy films, it's not owned by Cine Tamaris