Lady Oscar (1979)

Director:

Jacques Demy

Writers:

Jacques Demy (adaptation)
Jacques Demy (screenplay)

Release Date:

3 March 1979 (Japan)

Genre:

Drama | History | Romance

Plot:

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father who longed for a son and a heir insisted she be raised as a boy...

Plot Keywords:

King Louis XVI | Versailles | Nanny | 1750s | Royal Court

Cast

Catriona MacColl	...	Oscar Françoise de Jarjayes
Barry Stokes	...	André Grandier
Christine Böhm	...	Marie Antoinette
Jonas Bergström	...	Hans Axel von Fersen
Mark Kingston	...	Général de Jarjayes
Martin Potter	...	Conte de Giraudet, Oscar's Fiancé
Nicolas Amer	...	M. De Chantilly, the pistol duelist (as Nicholas Amer)
Patrick Floersheim	...	Oscar's sword adversaire in tavern
Consuelo De Haviland	...	Oscar's pair at the Black Ball
Patsy Kensit	...	Oscar as a child
Andrew Bagley	...	André as a child
Cadine Constan	...	Madame de Vallois / Launderess
Anouska Hempel	...	Jeanne Vallois / Jeanne de la Motte
Shelagh McLeod	...	Rosalie Vallois
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Patrick Allan
Jean Boissery	...	Le soldat qui tend le pamphlet
Armelle Bonnot	...	La suivante de la Reine
François Brincourt
Terence Budd	...	Louis XVI
Michèle Cahier	...	Une couturière
Geoffrey Carey	...	Un invité du bal noir
Constance Chapman	...	La nourrice
Lyne Chardonnet	...	Une invitée du bal noir
Thérèse Crémieux
Rosemarie Dunham	...	Marquise de Boulainvilliers
Christopher Ellison	...	Maximilien de Robespierre
Agnès Evein	...	La bergère au hameau du Trianon
Huguette Faget	...	Une dame de la cour
Corinne Fischer	...	Une couturière
Gregory Floy	...	Cardinal de Rohan
David Gabison	...	L'accoucheur
Steve Gadler	...	Un soldat insolent
Gary Granville
Vincent Grass	...	Un soldat insolent
Jeffrey Kime	...	L'importun au bal royal
Sue Lloyd	...	Comtesse Gabrielle de Polignac
Caroline Loeb
Mike Marshall	...	Nicolas de la Motte
Claire Maubert
Jacques Maury	...	Le baron de Breteuil
Timothy Morand	...	Un ivrogne
Michael Osborne	...	Bernard Chatelet, Rosalie's Lover
Mario Pecqueur
Michael Petrovitch	...	Charles-Alexandre de Calonne
Olivier Pierre
Dane Porret	...	M. Léonard, le coiffeur (as Daniel Porret)
John Charles Sabain
James Schuman
Angela Thorne	...	Mme Bertin, the Queen's Dressmaker
John Tordoff
Denis Trindler
Dominique Varda	...	Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Monique Vermeer
Robin Whitecross	...	Une couturière
Sandy Whitelaw	...	Un invité au bal noir
Georges Wilson	...	M. de Bouillé, French Guard General
Lambert Wilson	...	Un soldat insolent
Sylvia Zerbib	...	Une couturière

Also Known As:

Berusaiyu no bara (Japan)

Runtime:

124 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Italy:T | France:U

Filming Locations:

Auditel - 12 avenue du Maine, Paris 14, Paris, France

Company:

Kitty Films

Movie Connections:

Remake of "Berusaiyu no bara" (1979)

Just for fans

I love the Rose of Versailles (Lady Oscar in West) original comics and was a pleasure to watch this movie. However it's necessary to say it's just for fans. When you previously know the characters and want to get in touch with an alternative point of view, it's OK, but if you take Lady Oscar as a movie about the French Revolution's or a cross dresser heroine, you probably would feel disappointed.

The work was not as good as it would be; some actors and actresses were not well chosen; main events were forgotten; and Oscar's personal drama lost force. But as I said, I liked it a little, because any Lady Oscar's product would attract me.