A Room in Town (1982)

Original title

Une chambre en ville

Directed by

Jacques Demy

Genre

drama film, musical film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

15

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 87 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set in 1955 Nantes during a workers strike, a woman becomes entangled in a doomed love affair. The entire film is sung through like an opera, with every line of dialogue set to music.

tragicsung-throughpolitically chargedmelodramaticmelancholicvisually stylizeddark

What happens

Une chambre en ville (also known as A Room in Town) is a 1982 French musical drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music by Michel Colombier, and starring Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux and Michel Piccoli. It is set against the backdrop of a workers' strike in 1955 Nantes. Like Demy's most famous film, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, it is an operetta-musical in which every line of dialogue is sung. However, unlike Cherbourg, Chambre is closer to tragedy, with a darker, more explicitly political tone. The film won the Prix Méliès, and was nominated for nine César Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Production Design and Best Sound. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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