Set over one weekend in a pastel–painted Rochefort, Demy‘s sometimes poignant, always exhilarating masterpiece concerns various characters – twins who teach dance and music (real life siblings Deneuve and Dorleac), their cafe–proprietor mother (Darrieux), a music–shop owner (Piccoli), his American composer friend (Kelly), an artist in the navy (Perrin) and a couple of visiting carnival performers (Chakiris and Dale) – all involved in a search for love and happiness. Michel Legrand‘s best–ever score, Demy‘s witty scenario, Bernard Evein‘s stunning art direction and the playing of all concerned make for a wonderfully summery celebration of life‘s seductive capacity to surprise and, just occasionally, to match our dreams.