A Room in Town

A Room in Town (Une chambre en ville, 1982) — watch online on iFILM. This French melodrama by Jacques Demy has no spoken dialogue at all: every line is sung. Starring Dominique Sanda, Richard Berry and Michel Piccoli.

The docks of Nantes are shut down by a strike, and the city is on edge. A young worker rents a room from a widow and falls for her daughter Édith — beautiful, married, miserable. One night is all they get.

Demy conceived the film as a contemporary opera without a libretto, an experiment that stayed singular in French cinema of its era. Watch A Room in Town online on iFILM.