Jacques Demy's film about a 1955 workers strike in a French town called Nantes is a musical. Like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg every single word of it is sung by every single member of the cast.
It looks like Demy's concept of dramatizing the strike and the love affair by one of the strikers and a married woman somewhat exceeded his ability to actually put what is essentially an intimate opera on film. Still you have to give Demy credit for attempting something so audacious. You just don't see films like this every day if at all.
Demy must have worked very carefully to get the cast to seem as natural and unaffected as they are considering they are constantly singing, it's very tough to build a character in a film that has such an unusual approach to story.
Worth a look and doesn't overstay it's welcome.
90 minutes.
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