Une chambre en ville
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.
Plot
The story is set during a workers' strike in Nantes in 1955. Young shipyard worker François Guilbaud is one of the strikers, and he rents a room from Madame Langlois, a widow who sympathizes with the strikers although she is herself upper-class, born a baroness. His girlfriend Violette Pelletier, who works in a shop and lives with her mother, wants to get married but he is unwilling, partly because they have no money and nowhere to live.
More details
| author | Jacques Demy |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Nantes |
| director | Jacques Demy |
| editor | Sabine Mamou |
| genre | drama political |
| keywords | beautiful woman cheap hotel fur coat injured married morning shipyard |
| musicBy | Michel Colombier |
| producer | Christine Gouze-Renal |
| productionCompany | TF1 Union Générale Cinématographique |
| publisher | UGC Distribution |
| recordedAt | Billancourt Studios Bouffay Nantes Nantes Cathedral passage Pommeraye |
| theme | musical musical drama |