There's something irresistibly swinging, even promiscuous, about the whole affair, writes Catherine Shoard

• Catherine Shoard
• The Guardian, Friday 14 August 2009

 

 

Jacques Demy painted a whole seaside town in pastels for the 1967 shoot of this tribute to Hollywood musicals, starring real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac as twins whose provincial boredom evaporates when the carnival (including Gene Kelly) shows up.

Such a full-blooded approach extends to the rest of the film - from Michel Legrand's jazzy score, to the swoony plot, to the no-blush kitsch of Norman Maen's choreography.

There's something irresistibly swinging, even promiscuous, about the whole affair - more brash and gleaming than the team's previous effort, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Inadvertent pathos is added by the fact that Dorléac died in a car crash shortly after filming wrapped.

approach: podejście

brash: zuchwały

evaporate: parować

extend: ciągnąć się, rozciągać się

full-blooded: pełnokrwisty

inadvertent: nieumyślny

irresistibly: nieodparcie

kitsch: kicz

plot: fabuła

promiscuous: rozwiązły; wyuzdany

swinging: szykowny; szałowy

swoony: omdlewający

wrap: tu: zwinąć się, skończyć się

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