This debut feature from Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg) is a gossamer-light meditation on love and chance with a never-better Anouk Aimée enchanting in the title role.
Set in the writer/director’s beloved Breton seaport of Nantes, it has Aimée’s cabaretsinger weighing up the merits of two aspirant suitors while hoping for the return of her long-lost one true love.
Playful and buoyant, shot in luminous black-and-white and kept aloft by Demy’s elegantly circling camera, the film’s still imbued with a gently melancholy sense of the transience of love and happiness.
