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Real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac are twins who pine for life beyond the limits of their small seaside town, with Kelly as the successful American pianist who might get them there, in director Demy’s spectacular valentine to the Hollywood musical tradition.

“The score is Michel Legrand's finest, with various jazz elements, lyrics in alexandrines by Demy, and intricately structured reprises that match the poetic, crisscrossing plot. Demy pays tribute to the American musical yet mixes in accoutrements of French poetic realism: dreams and reality coexist more strangely and stubbornly than in most other musicals. The results may be quintessentially French, but the energy and optimism are clearly inspired by America, and Gene Kelly's appearances are sublime.”
--Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

SERIES: INVITATION TO DANCE: GENE KELLY @ 100

VENUE: WALTER READE THEATER