The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

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Geneviève, 17, lives with her widow mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She and Guy, an auto mechanic, are in love and want to marry (imdb)

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Genres: Romance, Drama, Musical

Country: France, West Germany

Directed By: Jacques Demy

Written By: Jacques Demy

Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Marc Michel, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Ellen Farner, Mireille Perrey

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Feb 10	rnest	6 _45%
Feb 08	ArloJWiley	100 _93%
Feb 07	WWallce4prez	90 _95%
Lush doesn’t do this film justice. It is a box of Crayolas left in a hot car. One of the best musicals I’ve ever seen.
Feb 05	finchereznor	80 _66%
Feb 05	darkrider95	75 _67%
Feb 01	JC1512	75 _66%
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Jan 13	Guillaume	70 _36%
Good film to talk about afterwards, with a strong score encapsulating all emotion, whereas the dialogues are strikingly mundane. Perhaps apart from the end scene, everything that happens is so textbook that it's painfully predictable. That caused my investment in the characters to be lacking enough to see the outcome as simply the best way for all involved.
Jan 13	gossamer2019	84 _89%
Jan 12	jacqueskit	95 _92%
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Nov 29, 2018	Triptolemos	65 _60%
Nov 26, 2018	Ahhdhdhdh	70 _43%
Nov 21, 2018	Ceekay19	70 _69%
Geneviève Emery: "Absence is a funny thing. I feel like Guy left years ago. I look at this photo, and I forget what he really looks like. When I think of him, it's this photo that I see."
Nov 17, 2018	eliasm	93 _86%
Nov 17, 2018	karan04	80 _65%
Nov 16, 2018	DocBrowne	75 _55%
Nov 15, 2018	Iglian	65 _47%
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Sep 18, 2018	closedmouth	30 _3%
Felt like I was trying to watch a movie while a fire alarm was going off.
Sep 14, 2018	ilkyaz	60 _18%
Sep 09, 2018	deanjames	80 _77%
Sep 09, 2018	Zepheus	80 _%
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Aug 12, 2018	ott	75 _64%
what kind of a happy ending is this? wha?
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Jun 28, 2018	fuzzleshnops	91 _88%
So.many.pretty.colors
Jun 25, 2018	AchwellFoley	78 _86%
Jun 22, 2018	Daisoujou	95 _90%
Jun 22, 2018	Krafty	95 _93%
Jun 20, 2018	krypt	88 _66%
What a fucking rip.
Jun 10, 2018	nunobar	70 _51%
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May 21, 2018	syvyys	91 _93%
May 20, 2018	evanetrain	70 _21%
May 19, 2018	Anomaly1	65 _38%
While I'm not a fan of musicals, I'm also not a hater of them. But when literally every line is sung, the music becomes less of an outpouring of emotion, and more of an enforced modality that homogenizes expression. That's not to say it can't be done well, but it would certainly need both better writing and better music than there is here. The mise-en-scène is amazing, and granted the main theme is pretty memorable, but little else is.
May 18, 2018	Emir Han	89 _90%
May 17, 2018	coolcoolcool	83 _72%
May 13, 2018	Oktay	60 _23%
May 13, 2018	normatic	80 _84%
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Apr 19, 2018	fictionfitz	94 _98%
Apr 13, 2018	dourface	60 _45%
Apr 10, 2018	larmor	52 _40%
I found it tacky, garish and cloying. A few good scenes, but mostly bland cinematography. I was uncomfortable during most of the movie. The main interest of the movie, as of today, remains the depiction of the condition of women in France in the early 60s. Objects of desire for men, almost completely passive and only good to be married.
Apr 06, 2018	twincinema	75 _67%
A rich, colourful film that was unfortunately dulled by the DVD copy I rented from the library. The final scene is masterful.
Apr 06, 2018	Meowfresh	9 _90%
Mar 21, 2018	RottenT	98 _96%
Jacques Demy elevates the basic drama of everyday life into a soaring opera full of bittersweet passion and playful charm, featuring a timeless performance from Catherine Deneuve.
Mar 20, 2018	apsays	68 _62%
Mar 20, 2018	ericambler	84 _84%
With an unconventional style that belies its traditional love-and-marriage melodrama, THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG endures as a visionary piece of filmmaking. Jacques Demy doesn't direct this movie--he conducts it, precisely orchestrating the blocking, mise en scene, editing, and sound to create an alluring dreamworld that embraces cinematic artifice while demonstrating a very natural understanding of romance. Heightened, hyperreal, and yet also devastatingly naturalistic.
Mar 09, 2018	scott.mcc	90 _97%
Mar 03, 2018	Russ Bedford	72 _70%
Mar 02, 2018	trueiceman	80 _71%
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Feb 04, 2018	Pythius	99 _98%
Feb 02, 2018	OgreZed	70 _52%
Jan 31, 2018	salMovies	85 _51%
Jan 25, 2018	zmoats	92 _90%
Well, it turns out I am a fan of musicals. I had no idea. What a perfectly paced odyssey of love and loss and what once was and what could be. Not to mention the movie pops off the damn screen through a bright variety of colors and diverse sounds from a multitude of instruments.
Jan 23, 2018	cet1412	60 _46%
Jan 21, 2018	gerskywalker	92 _88%
Jan 17, 2018	vidadam93	95 _93%
Jan 09, 2018	cengaveri	78 _88%
Dec 28, 2017	tguarnaccia	75 _50%
Dec 25, 2017	Roshambo	50 _27%
Dec 25, 2017	itsirc	67 _62%
Dec 24, 2017	astrakhan	81 _80%
Revolutionary for its time and still quite striking today (I've seen many musicals and can't think of one sung quite like this). The story of Parapluies is almost too simple, but the way it's conveyed through ordinary homely scenes and plenty of dialogue delivered in sing-song tones, somehow makes it work. Of course it owes a lot to the charismatic performances of young Deneuve and young Castelnuovo, who became as iconic to French cinema as Sandy & Danny to Americans. A pleasure to experience.
Dec 20, 2017	bennick218	86 _81%
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Nov 04, 2017	CarterAmos	85 _60%
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Oct 14, 2017	fernsebner	100 _98%
Oct 13, 2017	sosadetz	90 _90%
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Oct 01, 2017	sandrikoti	100 _83%
Sep 13, 2017	funmovies	100 _82%
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Aug 31, 2017	sezide5à7	87 _88%
Aug 30, 2017	Cowwan	80 _51%
Aug 24, 2017	Curb	72 _72%
Aug 18, 2017	paulduncan	50 _8%
Aug 16, 2017	hyrras	51 _26%
Aug 08, 2017	Jimmy Suede	90 _93%
Umbrellas has a couple of the most beautiful and recognizable tunes in cinema, as well as gorgeous visuals. While I'm not a huge fan of the singing of every mundane word, it grew on me. As for the story, halfway through I had doubts. Another over-romanticized tragedy of all-important teenage love, I thought. But while the film does turn tragic and Gena is insufferable, Guy comes through it in the tremendous final act. The final seconds were a lovely capstone and left me in tears.
Aug 02, 2017	whataboutit	90 _74%
Jul 26, 2017	hsncomert	100 _98%
Jul 24, 2017	Philosofem	73 _56%
Jul 23, 2017	tomatwork	50 _50%
Jul 22, 2017	Mr. Saturn	84 _74%
Jul 18, 2017	mentosibo	75 _63%
Jul 09, 2017	NathanBates	60 _35%
Jul 09, 2017	bhalac	85 _85%
Jun 25, 2017	adilinki	49 _20%
badtrip.
Jun 18, 2017	Yasbane	1 _0%
Jun 17, 2017	Yiannos	75 _81%
It's easy to see why it's highly regarded: it's a beautifully filmed musical presented daringly as a kind of opera where actors sing their lines of dialogue in surprisingly well synched movements. Demy offers a rather ambiguous view of love, a class critique, and the melancholy vibe of the piece is quite affecting. All in all, it's a testament to the power of film form. The story is a rote young lovers tragedy, but it's transformed by a judicious use of color and sound.
Jun 16, 2017	pumpkeen	10 _2%
Jun 10, 2017	bernardobrum	90 _85%
Jun 10, 2017	joxnq	95 _91%
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Apr 01, 2017	Lionel Hutz	88 _77%
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Proto-Trapped In the Closet
Mar 17, 2017	bitz_2008	91 _95%
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Feb 21, 2017	kode	93 _98%
Feb 19, 2017	Maaxwell	75 _68%
Feb 09, 2017	pntjr	9 _84%
Feb 07, 2017	Nathan S	4 _76%
A formal masterwork, with its bittersweet melodies, candy colors, geometric patterns, and splendid choreography. Even if it operates largely on romantic tropes and demonstrates no tremendous insight into the condition of broken-heartedness, and in fact probably because of such simplicity, this is one of the great examples of cinema in the service of pure escapist fantasy.
Feb 04, 2017	loc42	75 _68%
This is a musical without dance and its very important. Normally, dance gives a feeling of enthusiasm and festivity, but with this film, the absence of dance gives a melancholic tone which is in line with the reality of an unfulfilled lovestory. Beneath its pop story, Demy actually narrates the bitter reality of a class society with a Marxist attitude: a car-mechanic can never merry a beautiful girl when a rich man competes with him, he should fight in the war as rich men get what they want.
Feb 01, 2017	jastheef	79 _63%
Jan 29, 2017	tipieserozge	85 _87%
Jan 29, 2017	zevel6	67 _88%
Jan 28, 2017	NevinLiu	85 _84%
Jan 27, 2017	umurtas	95 _97%

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