The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

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Synopsis
Jacques Demy's 1964 masterpiece is a pop-art opera, or, to borrow the director's own description, a film in song. This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo), a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery (a luminous Catherine Deneuve), an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant (Marc Michel, reprising his role from Demy's masterful debut, Lola). A completely sung movie, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is closest in form to a cinematic opera. Composer Michel Legrand composed the score, modeling it around the patterns of everyday conversation. Umbrellas was re-released in 1997. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

Production Crew

Bernard Evein	Art Director
Jean Rabier	Cinematographer
Michel Legrand	Composer (Music Score)
Jacqueline Moreau	Costume Designer
Jacques Demy	Director
Anne-Marie Cotret	Editor
Michel Legrand	Musical Direction/Supervision
Mag Bodard	Producer
Jacques Demy	Screenwriter

Genre
Musical
Romance

Awards
1963 - Prix Louis-Delluc - French Film Critics Circle
1963 - Prix Louis-Delluc - French Film Critics Circle
1964 - Best Foreign Film - New York Film Critics Circle
1964 - Best Foreign Language Film - Academy
1964 - Grand Prix - Cannes International Film Festival
1964 - Best Foreign Language Film - Academy
1964 - Grand Prix - Cannes Film Festival
1964 - Best Foreign Language Film - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
1964 - Grand Prix - Cannes Film Festival
1965 - Best Foreign Film - Foreign Language - Golden Globe
1965 - Best Foreign Film - Foreign Language - Golden Globe
1965 - Best Foreign Film - Foreign Language - Hollywood Foreign Press Association

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Nino Castelnuovo	Guy
Catherine Deneuve	Genevieve Emery
Ellen Farner	Madeleine
Marc Michel	Roland Cassard
Mireille Perrey	Aunt Elise
Anne Vernon	Madame Emery