It must be allowed that [Jacques] Demy is an habitual offender on the count of sentimentality... yet he is capable of a tender, unsentimenial euphoria more intoxicating than any other film work in the field of sentimental farce.

A euphoric swirl of sherbet colors, Jacques Demy's Hollywood-musical homage The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) elevates even the most mundane actions to the spectacular ...

Despite the consistently sprightly surface, there's a somber undercurrent that lingers even when love triumphs and the music swells.

It bypasses the more intimate style of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg to pay homage to splashy Hollywood musicals.