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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
a.k.a. Parapluies de Cherbourg, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Regenschirme Von Cherbourg
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- •Express, 48 States
- •Express (AK, HI)
Overview
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. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant Marc Michel, reprising his role from Demy's masterful debut, Lola. A completely sung movie, The