Film Screening: Cinémélodie—Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Announcing our 2025/2026 music-themed film series, “Cinémélodie!

To kick off this musical and cinematographic journey, we are thrilled to present Jaques Demy’s 1967 French musical comedy Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort).

Widely considered one of the best musicals of all time, the film follows fraternal twin sisters Delphine and Solange (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac) on their quest for love.

Guests will enjoy a complimentary glass of Louis Jadot Bourgogne and a chance to win a $50 gift certificate to the Sofitel Magnificent Mile’s très chic Le Bar.

Doors at 6:00 PM for a complimentary glass of wine. Program at 6:30. Please enter via 54 W Chicago Ave. Non-alcoholic options will be available.

About the Director

Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy’s films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).