Skip to content
The Whitsell Auditorium and the Northwest Film Center Equipment Room are closed to the public in an effort to further stem the spread of COVID-19. All classes canceled until further notice. Stay connected to art, film, and more by signing up for our newsletter.

The Young Girls Turn 25

Directed by Agnès Varda

France • 1995 • 64 mins. • In French with English subtitles

Showtimes & Past Screenings

Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort is one of French cinema’s true gems, a candy-colored musical extravaganza that, once seen, cannot be forgotten. 25 years after its production (and only two years after Demy’s death), Varda went to Rochefort—with stars Catherine Deneuve and Jacques Perrin, along with composer Michel Legrand and then-publicist Bertrand Tavernier—to chart the film’s impact on the place and people. Demy, unsurprisingly, transformed the town forever through his beautiful tribute to youthful exuberance and love.

Genres: Documentary

The Northwest Film Center recognizes and honors the Indigenous peoples of this region on whose ancestral lands the museum now stands. These include the Willamette Tumwater, Clackamas, Kathlemet, Molalla, Multnomah and Watlala Chinook Peoples and the Tualatin Kalapuya who today are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and many other Native communities who made their homes along the Columbia River. We also want to recognize that Portland today is a community of many diverse Native peoples who continue to live and work here. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, future—and are grateful for their ongoing and vibrant presence.