English title: Three Places for the 26th.
Synopsis: A singer and actor returns to the city of his childhood and adolescence after 20 years of absence. He intends to produce an autobiographical musical play which will premier in that city. He meets his former lover and also a young aspiring actress/singer/dancer who asks him if she can watch the play's rehearsals.
Appraisal (spoilers): It's an agreeable film. It's hard for me to find something really bad about it; on the other hand, it is a little too slight for my taste; some of the choreographies are unremarkable while others are filmed too unimaginatively. What I found curious is the recurrence of the father/daughter incest theme in Demy, which appeared earlier in Peau d'âne (1970). Here, we see a totally different variety of it: no violence is present, only ignorance, exactly like in the ancient tale of Oedipus; unlike in that tale, however, here no tragedy ensues, only a small discomfort after the discovery.
Rating: 50
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