A Room in Town

1982 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Musical / Romance

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 68% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 1822 1.8K

strike musical

Plot summary

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

Director

Jacques Demy Photo
Jacques Demy

Top cast

Michel Piccoli Photo
Michel Piccoli as Edmond Leroyer
Dominique Sanda Photo
Dominique Sanda as Edith Leroyer
Patrick Joly Photo
Patrick Joly as L'arroseur
Marie-Pierre Feuillard Photo
Marie-Pierre Feuillard as Femme à l'enfant
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849.74 MB
1280*766
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds ...
1.54 GB
1792*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MissSimonetta 8 / 10

Beautifully overwrought

UNE CHAMBRE EN VILLE is much darker and harsher than Demy's more famous films from the 1960s, but it is no less stunning a piece of work. An operatic look at classicism and desire, its peopled by fascinating, layered characters who are sometimes openly unlikable. The music is not at all like Michel Legrand' jazzy, hummable tunes, but this is meant to work within the confines of this grand and melodramatic narrative.
Reviewed by writers_reign 7 / 10

Strike Up The Bland

Despite a reasonably varied output Jacques Demy is destined to be remembered by film buffs as the onlie begetter of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and by admirers of Cole Porter, Larry Hart, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer etc as the William MacGonigall of lyricists, indeed Demy established something of a record in the number of banal lyrics he has committed to celluloid. Defenders will argue that in creating 'sung-through' musicals he was not looking for extractable hit songs (though in English translations two did emerge from Cherbourg). That first musical was bittersweet albeit brightly lit whereas this last entry is much more dark as reflected in the sombre reds and blues. Set against a strike it all ends in tears but along the way Danielle Darrieux, and Richard Berry weigh in with some fine work. Definitely watchable.
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