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Director
  
Music director
  
Country
  
FranceJapan

6.2/10
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Genre
  
Drama, History, Romance

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Lady Oscar (film) movie poster

Release date
  
March 3, 1979 (1979-03-03) (Japan)

Writer
  
Jacques Demy (screenplay), Patricia Louisianna Knop (screenplay), Jacques Demy (adaptation), Patricia Louisianna Knop (adaptation), Riyoko Ikeda (comic: Versailles no bara/La Rose de Versailles)

Screenplay
  
Jacques Demy, Patricia Louisiana Knop

Cast
  
(Oscar François de Jarjayes), (André Grandier),
Jonas Bergström
(Hans Axel von Fersen), (Marie Antoinette),
Terence Budd
(Louis XVI), (young Oscar François de Jarjayes)

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,
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,
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,
Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire

Lady Oscar is a 1979 English-language Japanese-French romantic drama film, based on the manga The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda. The film was written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music composed by his regular collaborator Michel Legrand. Lady Oscar was filmed on location in France.

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Plot

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Oscar Françoise de Jarjayes (Catriona MacColl) is a young woman whose father, a career military man, wanted a boy. After she was born her father took to dressing Oscar in boy's clothes and raising her as a man. Privately Oscar acknowledges her feminine side, she dresses as a man and gains an honored position as a guard of Marie Antoinette (Christina Bohm). In her youth, Oscar is in love with Andre (Barry Stokes), the son of the family's housekeeper. Years later, when the French Revolution begins, Oscar and Andre's paths cross for the first time in years. With the assault on the Bastille, Oscar and Andre find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the revolution.

Cast

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  • Catriona MacColl as Oscar François de Jarjayes
  • Patsy Kensit as young Oscar François de Jarjayes
  • Barry Stokes as André Grandier
  • Jonas Bergström as Hans Axel von Fersen
  • Christine Böhm as Marie Antoinette
  • Terence Budd as Louis XVI
  • Mark Kingston as General Jarjayes
  • Georges Wilson as General Bouillé
  • Martin Potter as Count de Gerodere
  • Sue Lloyd as Duchess de Polignac
  • Anouska Hempel as Jeanne Valois de la Motte
  • Mike Marshall as Nicolas de la Motte
  • Christopher Ellison as Robespierre
  • Constance Chapman as Nanny
  • Gregory Floy as Cardinal de Rohan
  • Shelagh McLeod as Rosalie Lamorlière
  • Michael Osborne as Bernard Chatelet
  • Angela Thorne as Mademoiselle Bertin
  • Paul Spurrier as Prince Louis Joseph
  • Rose Mary Dunham as Marquise de Boulainvilliers
  • Lambert Wilson as The Cocky Soldier
  • Vincent Grass as An insolent soldier
  • Caroline Loeb
  • Production

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    The major sponsor of the film was Shiseido, a cosmetics company, and Catriona McColl promoted a red lipstick for the spring cosmetic line that year. Frederik L. Schodt and Jared Cook translated the entire manga series into English as a reference for the producers of this film, but gave the only copy of the translation to them and it was lost.

    Reception

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    The film was not a commercial success, and MacColl's portrayal of Oscar, in particular, was criticized; it was felt by some critics that she was not androgynous enough to play Oscar. On Midnight Eye, Jasper Sharp says the film "is one of those works that is so compellingly awful that entire dissertations could be written about what exactly went wrong."

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    Anne Duggan chooses to view Lady Oscar within the context of Demy's other films. Duggan describes Ikeda's Oscar as having "much more self-knowledge" than the Oscar of the film, describing Demy's Oscar as being "in denial about sexual and class issues". Duggan feels that if agency is taken away from Oscar, it is given to lower-class characters in the film, in particular Andre.

    Variety described the film as recalling early Hollywood epics, and praised Catriona McColl's depiction of Oscar as a "woman waiting to burst out of a man's clothing". Kevin Thomas, writing for the Los Angeles Times, described the film as a typical Jacques Demy film, noting its preoccupation with contrasting the lives of the aristocrats and the lives of the poor.

    References

    Lady Oscar (film) Wikipedia
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