Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)

For some reason the critics didn't like Jacques Demy's follow-up to "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" but it is actually a very pleasant diversion.  Granted it doesn't have as sober a story as the earlier film; but when three characters looking for love are played by Catherine Deneuve, her sister Francoise Dorleac (who, had she lived, might have been the greater actor) and Danielle Darrieux, how bad can it be?  Especially when two of their love interests take the forms of Gene Kelly and Michel Piccoli.  It's an all-singing, all-dancing pastel world, and if Michel Legrand's music is a little tinkly at times, so what; one doesn't have to be dead serious all the time.  The only thing that really puzzles me about this movie is that all of the singing voices are dubbed, including those actors that one knows to have perfectly acceptable voices.