Rent Une Chambre en Ville (1982)
3.4 of 5 from 53 ratings
1h 30min
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- Synopsis:
The story is set during a workers' strike in Nantes in 1955. Young shipyard worker François Guilbaud (Richard Berry) is one of the strikers, and he rents a room from Madame Langlois (Danielle Darrieux), a widow who sympathizes with the strikers although she is herself upper-class, born a baroness. His girlfriend Violette Pelletier (Fabienne Guyon), 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. In the street François is accosted by a beautiful woman wearing only a fur coat. This is Édith Leroyer (Dominique Sanda), unhappily married to the owner of a television shop, who has taken to part-time prostitution. The two have a blissful night together in a cheap hotel and fall in love. In the morning Violette comes looking for François because she has learned she is pregnant, but he tells her he loves another woman. Meanwhile, Édith, going back to her husband's shop to collect some things and leave him, has a terrible row with him during which he cuts his throat. She flees back to her mother, who is François' landlady. Next morning, François joins a demonstration which is broken up by the police and is fatally injured. His workmates carry him up to the flat of the baroness, where he dies in the arms of Édith. Unable to live without him, she shoots herself. - Actors:
- Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli, Fabienne Guyon, Anna Gaylor, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Louis Rolland, Marie-France Roussel, Georges Blaness, Yann Dedet, Nicolas Hossein, Gil Warga, Antoine Mikola, Marie-Pierre Feuillard, Monique Créteur, Patrick Joly, Florence Davis, Jacques Revaux
- Directors:
- Jacques Demy
- Producers:
- Christine Gouze-Rénal
- Writers:
- Jacques Demy
- Aka:
- A Room in Town
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Music & Musicals, Romance
- Countries:
- France
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/02/2020
- Run Time:
- 93 minutes
- Languages:
- French DTS 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Two documentaries by filmmaker Agnes Varda: The World of Jacques Demy (1995) and The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
- Four short films by director Jacques Demy: Les horizons morts (1951), Le sabotier du Vai de Loire (1956), Ars (1959), and La luxure (1962)
- Jacques Demy, A to Z, a 2014 visual essay by critic James Quandt
- Archival interviews with Demy, composer Michel Legrand, and actors Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, and Jacques Perrin
- New conversation between Demy biographer Jean-Pierre Berthome and costume designer Jacqueline Moreau
- Interviews from 2014 with journalist Marie Colmant and film scholar Rodney Hill
- Archival audio Q&A with Demy
- Restoration demonstrations for 'Une Chambre en Ville'
