Une chambre en ville

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Une chambre en ville
Directed by	Jacques Demy
Produced by	Christine Gouze-Rénal
Written by	Jacques Demy
Starring	Dominique Sanda Danielle Darrieux Richard Berry Michel Piccoli
Music by	Michel Colombier
Cinematography	Jean Penzer
Editing by	Sabine Mamou
Distributed by	Progefi/TFI/Union Generale Cinematographique
Release date(s)	October 27, 1982
Running time	90 min
Country	France
Language	French
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Une chambre en ville is a 1982 French film directed by Jacques Demy. Like much of his work, it is a musical in which every line of dialogue is sung.

The film won the Prix Méliès, and was nominated for nine César Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Production Design and Best Sound.

[edit] Plot

The story is set during a workers' strike in Nantes in 1955. Steel worker François Guilbaud is one of the strikers, and he rents a room from Margot Langlois, a widow who sympathizes with the strikers although she is herself upper-class. He has a pregnant girlfriend named Violette Pelletier, to whom he becomes less and less attracted, and abandons. When he tries to defend his behaviour, she feels she is treated even more unjustly. He meets Edith Leroyer, a beautiful working-class girl who is unhappily married to a rich but impotent and neurotic merchant, and a part-time prostitute. Unbeknownst to him she is the daughter of the widow. He first meets her in the street and one night she shows up in his room, wearing only her fur coat. They fall instantly in love, but their great passion lasts only one night, for during the demonstration he is shot by the police and dies in Edith's arms.