This screening includes The Young Girls of Rochefort
- Date and time:
- Sat, Sept 6, 2014, From 3–5:05 pm
- Runtime:
- 2 hr 5 min
- Cost:
- Free, but ticketed
Series: George Chakiris
About The Young Girls of Rochefort
Actor George Chakiris is scheduled to be present. Jacques Demy followed up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (screening in the IU Cinema on Saturday, August 30) with another musical about missed connections and second chances. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (including George Chakiris and Gene Kelly), The Young Girls of Rochefort is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from 1960s French cinema’s preeminent dreamer. (2K DCP presentation)
His visit is sponsored by Collins Living Learning Center, College Arts
and Humanities Institute, African American and African Diaspora
Studies, Horizons of Knowledge, Departments of American Studies,
Communication and Culture, Spanish and Portuguese, Latino Studies
Program, Cultural Studies Program, Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies, International Studies Program, La Casa,
Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance, and IU
Cinema. Special thanks to Yara and Ysabel Clüver. Screenings are
free, but ticketed.