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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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NR,1hr 30min
Genres:
Musical,Drama,Romance
Released:
February 1, 1964
Director:
Jacques Demy
Distributor:
Zeitgeist Films
Starring:
Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon  ...more
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. ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
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 ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Catherine Deneuve
Genevieve Emery
Nino Castelnuovo
Guy
Anne Vernon
Madame Emery
Marc Michel
Roland Cassard
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