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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

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Directed by Jacques Demy

Starring Nino Castelnuovo, Catherine Deneuve, Ellen Farner, Marc Michel, Mireille Perrey, Anne Vernon

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

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"It’s hard to know where to being to begin to describe my personal reaction to this movie but it helped me to understand a deep tragedy in my life- in the views I had adopted. Maybe it helped me to realize the reality of the love that I had so soundly convinced myself was inconceivable, unobtainable, lost. And so, it is a movie abou " [More]

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"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most beautiful films of all time. The bold, vibrant colors offset the overall sad story that is being shown. The final scene remains one of the most memorable endings of any film I have ever scene.Every film Jacques Demy made before The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was simply a prequel of what was to come. It is a wonderful film that everyone should watch. " [More]

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"This is a beautiful movie. The suggestion that one might consider muting this masterpiece makes me gasp.Mute Kubrick, but not a second of this. These actors are not singing. This is not a musical. These are actors singing their lines and it's lovely. They're pulling off something that had never before or since been equaled. Cry with Deneuve as she pleads with Guy to stay with her and not got go to war and, in the final sc " [More]

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"I have to agree with everyone who has written reviews about this movie that the Cinematography is beautiful. All the colors are just etched in your brain along with that same tune that is played over and over and over. I had to put it on mute for a while and just read the subtitles, that seemed to bring the charm of the movie back for me. Catherine Deneuve is so young and beautiful this has to be one of her first films. It's actually a great movie to just sit bac " [More]

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"UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG Thursday, Sept. 14 9:30pm The Blue Bridge, Next to W Fulton St. OUTDOORS! FREE! A friend of mine remarked recently that the since the Grand River is headed west, its eastside would be considered Grand Rapids' Left Bank. This is true, i think. And to celebrate this discovery - as well as all of this pleasantly rainy weather - Portable Cinema is pleased to announce a FREE screening one of our favorite films from EVERYBODY'S favorite French N " [More]

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loved it.

A visually intoxicating "film in music," Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) pays homage to the Hollywood musical while undercutting the genre's candy-coated sentiment. Focusing on daily rituals and a typical story of young love and thwarted dreams, within an ultra-romantic riot of color and nonstop music and singing, Demy lifts the film above its mundane context while staying true to its unvarnished view of class divisions and youthful fantasy. With all the dialogue sung to Michel Legrand's score, from gas station business to the declaration of devotion between Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo, and the polychromatic costumes coordinated to match production designer Bernard Evein's ornate wallpaper and newly-repainted Cherbourg locations, Demy creates the ultimate musical dream world. Yet that world is ruled by bourgeois prejudices that no adolescent romance can subvert, even on a snowy Christmas night. Winner of the Palme d'Or and Best Actress prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg became an international sensation, turning neophyte Deneuve into a star and garnering Oscar nominations for Demy's script, Legrand's score, and the transcendent ballad "I Will Wait for You." Badly faded by the 1970s, it was re-released and restored to its original brilliance in 1992, after years of effort by Demy, Deneuve, Legrand, and Demy's widow, Agnès Varda. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

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