Funny where things lead you.

My last post showed me up for someone  who's not au courant with the current music scene or even courant with old films.  Just call me a currant bun why don't you.  The Best Coast video had been concocted on you-tube from an indie pop band who've been going a couple of years with a scene from Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, a charming vehicle for Catherine Deneuve and her sister Francois Dorleac who was killed in a motor accident shortly afterwards.


Do do watch another scene with Gene Kelly dancing dans la rue.  I also chose it for the art direction which is more delicious than a box of fondant fancies. 







And if you loved that, watch here the scrumptious sister act in a post I did a long time ago

Maybe It's Because I'm a Gemini..

that I'm beginning to find my blog a bit too well-behaved. I'd love to join the demi-monde of the blogosphere but then I'd have to have another site and I haven't got the energy or the creativity to compete with the sublimely camp outliers I've been visiting. In my ricochet-around today I came across Peg-less, a fellow east Londoner whose blog More stars than there are in the Heavens has been featuring French cinema of the 60s.

Here are Catherine Deneuve and her sister Francoise Dorleac (who was killed in a car crash not long afterwards) in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967).

Ladies, get down to your dressmaker and have them copy either the yellow or the pink number for this summer, why dontcha.

Image Top courtesy Le Cinema, cent ans de jeunesse