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Mood:
- SentimentalStylizedTouchingCaptivatingBittersweetAtmosphericEmotional
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Plot:
- Young LoversFall in LoveLove TriangleUnfulfilled LoveLove and RomanceUnfulfillmentYouthCouple Relations more...
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Genres:
- MusicalRomanceForeignMelodramaDramaPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- EuropeFrance
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Audience:
- Date NightGirls' Night
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedEssentialMasterpieceCannes Festival WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Score:
- Show Tunes
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964
French
France, West Germany
Profile of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg can be described as bittersweet, stylized, and sentimental. The plot revolves around young lovers, unfulfilled love, and a love triangle. The main genres are foreign, romance, and musical. In terms of style, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is located in France. It takes place in the 1950s. The soundtrack is show tunes. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg has received attention for being a Cannes festival winner, a masterpiece, and essential viewing. It is well suited for a girls' night and a date night.
Summary of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
In the innovative film THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, Jacques Demy pays loving homage to the Hollywood musical as well as the French melodrama. The film is shot in Cherbourg, France, using inventive cinematography and blazing colors and textures. Local life is rendered in pink, orange, green, and blue. Wallpapers and umbrella patterns, sweaters and hats, cars and gas stations--each element of the film contributes to the exuberant color and exalted mood. The film is also unique in the sense that every word is sung. The fertile collaboration between Demy and legendary French composer Michel Legrand reaches its climax in the light opera structure and lilting and memorable songs that make up the plot. Catherine Deneuve is the fresh and beautiful 16-year-old Genevieve, pining away in her mother's umbrella shop. When she falls in love with the charming local auto mechanic, Guy (Nino Castelnuovo), worlds collide. The young couple who, in their innocence, believe that love can overcome all obstacles, face many of them, including Genevieve's disapproving mother, an unexpected pregnancy, and Guy's induction into the French Army. Joy and melancholy suffuse every aspect of the film, which explores both the transience of love and the persistence of affection--motifs that Demy would further develop in his follow-up musical, THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT.
Details
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France, West Germany |
| Release date: | 16 December 1964 |
| Runtime: | 91 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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as Geneviève Emery
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