Perhaps because they have the capacity to inspire joy and happiness in their audiences, musicals have gained a reputation in high art circles for being purely entertainment: well-crafted, but lacking in emotional depth. The films of French director Jacques Demy defy this elitist categorization of musicals as low art, and they embrace both sorrow and glee to produce a unique and nuanced emotional complexity. Continue reading “Retrospective: ‘The Young Girls of Rochefort’ is an Utterly Unique and Unfairly Overlooked French Musical”
