Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Une Chambre en Ville (1982)
Synopsis
Synopsis
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...
