Trois places pour le 26 (1988)

Original title

Trois Places pour le 26

Directed by

Jacques Demy

Genre

musical film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

U

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A singer returns to his hometown of Marseille to rehearse a musical about his own life. He reconnects with old friends and falls in love with a young woman who is the daughter of his first love.

nostalgicmelancholiclyricalbittersweetromanticmusicalpersonalreflective

What happens

Three Seats for the 26th (French: Trois places pour le 26) is a 1988 French romantic musical film, written and directed by Jacques Demy to music by Michel Legrand. Set in Marseille, it shows the singer and actor Yves Montand returning to the city where he grew up and looking up old friends, including his first love Mylène, who had been a prostitute and is now the wife of a jailed baron. The purpose of his visit is to rehearse a stage musical based on his life, where he falls in love with the female lead named Marion, the daughter Mylène had after they parted. It was Demy's last picture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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