The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

A film for all the young lovers of the world
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 11, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1964
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Major Awards:

Cannes 1964 - Palme d'Or: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh98%

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Total Count: 61

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 9,802
The candy colored sets suggests the great Hollywood musicals: bright, clean, a utopian world, but with a distinctly French flavor. Instead of elaborate numbers we get intimate staging where every movement becomes like a dance... Full Review
Stream on Demand
Mar 2, 2018
...Bedecked in gorgeous pinks and blues....A sumptuously restored print and novelty value unabated by the passage of three decades...
USA Today
Apr 25, 1996
Rating: 5/5 -- Yet the hits, when they come, are immense. Full Review
Times (UK)
Dec 9, 2019
[I]t is remembered as a bold original experiment, and now that it is restored and back in circulation, it can also be remembered as a surprisingly effective film, touching and knowing and, like Deneuve, ageless.
Chicago Sun-Times
Apr 2, 2004
Rating: 5/5 -- What's so overpoweringly beautiful about The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg is that it matches human-scaled feelings of regret with the color and intensity of the movies Demy loved as a boy. Full Review
The Dissolve
Jul 28, 2014
Rating: 4/4 -- Demy sends his two lovers soaring before bringing them back to earth, and the effect is at once wise, rapturous, and heartrending. It's pure perfection. Full Review
From the Front Row
Jun 4, 2019
[Y]ou'll soon be engrossed in atherine Deneuve's mismatch...
Total Film
Feb 1, 2004

Product Description:

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 24,495
  • UPC: 715515196918
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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