My favorite musical! The use of colors in the film are amazing - especially how the wallpapers of each room coordinate with the actor's costumes in each scene.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg)
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- France,
- West Germany
- 1964
- · 91m
Director
Jacques Demy
Cast
Catherine Deneuve,
Nino Castelnuovo,
Anne Vernon,
Mireille Perrey,
Marc Michel,
Ellen Farner
Genre
Drama,
Romance
Guy Foucher and Geneviève Emery are desperately in love. But after Guy leaves for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, Geneviève realizes she’s pregnant. Now she must decide between waiting for Guy's return or accepting a proposal from a wealthy merchant.
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Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
A heartfelt, passionate, tragic musical suite made up of these formulas, which the film both celebrates and wryly examines to discover their inner logic: how they actually work, what they do and don't do.
90
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg has stood the test of time as beautifully as Deneuve and seems likely to enchant future generations as fully as it has audiences over the past four decades.
90
Washington Post by Hal Hinson
A glorious romantic confection unlike any other in movie history.
90
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Demy, his cinematographer Jean Rabier and production designer Bernard Evein created an operatic masterpiece of romanticism, which makes a modest but effective antidote to the harsh era of cynicism that has pervaded world cinema ever since.
88
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Although most movies favor passion and true love, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg shows that another less demanding, more subtle kind of love has its own appeal.
88
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A surprisingly effective film, touching and knowing and, like Deneuve, ageless.
70
TV Guide Magazine
By inflating the life of a common shop girl into a musical spectacle, Demy succeeds in turning a tedious existence into a fantasy, yet he and cinematographer Jean Rabier and art director Bernard Evein do so without creating a false world. [review of original release]
70
Variety
It takes nerve to make a pic in which all dialog is sung. Also, there is no dancing and this is not a filmed operetta or opera. [review of original release]
70
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
The wonderful-terrible dervish of Umbrellas reaches peak abandon, worthy of Vincente Minnelli, when Geneviève sobs out a plaint for Guy as a carnival whirls outside the shop.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
By inflating the life of a common shop girl into a musical spectacle, Demy succeeds in turning a tedious existence into a fantasy, yet he and cinematographer Jean Rabier and art director Bernard Evein do so without creating a false world. [review of original release]
70
Variety by Staff (Not Credited)
It takes nerve to make a pic in which all dialog is sung. Also, there is no dancing and this is not a filmed operetta or opera. [review of original release]
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