THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG

| 1964 – 91′ – Music & Dance, Classic, Romance.
Written by: Jacques Demy.
Directed by: Jacques Demy.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Mireille Perret, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Jean Champion, Pierre Caden.
Four Oscar Nominations (1966).
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |

Geneviève, a beautiful young French woman who works at a small-town boutique selling umbrellas, falls for dashing mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). Their brief romance is interrupted when Guy is drafted to serve in the Algerian War. Though pregnant by Guy, Geneviève marries an older businessman, Roland (Marc Michel), and begins to move on with her life. Throughout the musical film, all the characters’ dialogue is conveyed through song. An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors, and told entirely through the lilting songs of the great composer Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.

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