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Une chambre en ville est un film musical dramatique français écrit et réalisé par Jacques Demy, sorti en 1982.. Sur fond de grèves et de conflits sociaux, à Nantes, François, un ouvrier en lutte, et Édith, une fille d'aristocrate, mal mariée à un bourgeois, s'aiment éperdument sous l'œil désabusé et impuissant de la mère d'Édith, veuve d'un colonel, chez qui François a pris la ...
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Jul 29, 2014 · That’s because very few people have actually seen Une chambre en ville (1982), a late-ish masterpiece that, for this writer at least (and I’m certainly not alone in my opinion), is the equal of any film Demy made. It’s easy to see why Une chambre en ville has remained so unfairly neglected. The film—coming as it did at the end of a ...
Sep 7, 2014 · UNE CHAMBRE EN VILLE, JACQUES DEMY, 1982 After an opening strikers versus police scene that seems yanked from the Les Miserablés play (it wasn’t), the camera cranes up to an overlooking room with a baroness looking down at the commotion. After the conflict dies down, the baroness speaks with her boarder, who happens to be….
Une chambre en ville. Directed by Jacques Demy • 1982 • France. Starring Dominique Sanda, Michel Piccoli, Richard Berry. 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 ...
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. 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 ...
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Jan 15, 2022 · Jacques Demy's 1982 film "Une Chambre En Ville" (Eng: "A Room In The Town") qualifies it to be "Late Demy" and if not a return to form following his early successes, is a return to his roots, both in the context of the intentions of the French New Wave and neo-realism and also his roots in the town of Nantes, where he spent the early formative parts of his life, as depicted in Agnes Varda's ...
May 16, 2016 · Une chambre en ville recounts a condemned heterosexual romance against the historical backdrop of a strike by dockyard metalworkers in Nantes in the summer of 1955. The qualification of Jacques Demy's films as a 'cinema en-chante' receives its formal justification in his 'musicals', the genre for which he is most famous.
