[ April 17, 2024 ]
"Delicately bittersweet." Tonight's Saturday Night Cinema is the French confection, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Sugary sweet, beautifully done, it is a strange and delightful French musical. And the then-20-year-old Catherine Deneuve is strikingly beautiful.
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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, Rovi
A number of different factors raise this absurdly simple scenario to the level of highest excellence, but the chief among them is surely Michel Legrand's iconic score.
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.
Awards
- Prix Louis-Delluc, 1963
- Palme d'Or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival[4]
- Critics' prize for Best Film, by the French Syndicate of Film Critics, 1965
- Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards held in 1965[5]
- Nominated for four more Academy Awards at the 38th Academy Awards held in 1966, three for Legrand and Demy, though it did not win any: "Best Song" (for "I Will Wait For You"), "Best Original Score", "Best Scoring – Adaptation or Treatment" and "Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen".[6]
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6 Comments
12 years ago
Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer
12 years ago
Catherine Deneuve is unbelievably beautiful !
Paulo – Rio
12 years ago
Shocked and saddened to hear of Whitney passing away.
Rest in Peace Whitney – you’ll be missed.
http://youtu.be/8QaI-M9sxW4
12 years ago
We had a little garage under the World Trade Center, and we repaired the limos for the Directors,Commisioners,and who knows what else for the PAofNYandNJ. I LOVE you Pamela for posting this movie. I have a French surname, but I can’t speak the language well enough to float a boat out of Cherbourg!
12 years ago
Didn’t think I would watch this film, but I did, loved it, lol. The unique French style, decor, scenery, (petite) clothes etc, if nothing else, had me transfixed. The good looking men had me swooning a tad!
12 years ago
This might bring memories of a little art movie theater right next to the Plaza Hotel called the Paris Theater. One could walk out on a summer night from a French film such as this and take a carriage ride with your love through Central Park. The theater (believe it or not) is still there (a really old fashioned single screen cinema) and I believe you can see The Artist there right now! Too cold for the carriage though.
