Jacques Demy's _Lady Oscar_

[ryan.cook at yale.edu]

Hi Anne,

I too tried unsuccessfully to get a copy of Lady Oscar in the US a 
little while
back. It seems to be readily available on DVD at least in Japan and Italy (for
example this Italian company, which does not ship internationally:
http://www.yamatovideo.com/customer/product.php?productid=227&cat=38), but it
was never released in the US and even the usual suspects for hard-to-find
videos here could not help me without going through an overseas source. At any
rate, I have heard at every turn that this film does not number among Demy's
finer achievements (hence the difficulty in turning up a copy??).

You might also be interested to know that the French-Canadian pop star
provocatrice Mylene Farmer, known for her lavish and epic music videos,
reportedly took inspiration from Rose of Versailles/Lady Oscar in the 
video for
her 1986 single "Libertine," which you can watch online here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/640x480/x3ygo_mylene-farmer-libertine.

-Ryan

Graduate Student
Film Studies/East Asian Languages & Literatures
Yale University



Quoting anne mcknight <annekmcknight at gmail.com>:

> I'm wondering if anyone might know where to get hold of this
> intriguing production--a 1978 adaptation by Jacques Demy of the manga
> _Rose of Versailles_. Apparently, filmed in English, with Japanese
> funds. I've found it on a couple of faraway Ebay sites, but the
> shipping has been impossible or forbiddingly expensive.
>
> Thanks for any leads.
>
> Anne
>