Where to Watch A Room in Town (1982) in the US

What it's about

A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. François abandons his pregnant girlfriend Violette. She feels treated even more unjust when he tries to defend and excuse his behaviour. He had met a very beautiful over-class girl, Edith, and both were immediately overwhelmed by genuine and reciprocal passion. Edith lived in a very unsatisfactory marriage. She was the daughter of the widow from which François rented his room. Nevertheless, he met her in the street, where she just opened her fur coat and was starch naked under it. They will be together in great passion for just one night and day. At the demonstration François is shot by the police and dies in Edith's arms. - The music is closer to opera than in any other film musical by Jacques Demy. But the greatest difference is that he has devoted much more effort to the task of instructing the singers to reveal the psychic emotions of the text and events.

Cast and crew

Director

Jacques Demy

Writer

Jacques Demy

Starring

Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry

Details

Release date

Oct 27, 1982

Language

French

Country

France

Awards

3 wins & 10 nominations total

Where to Watch A Room in Town (1982) in the US — common questions

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