The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:44
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel
Director: Jacques Demy
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Reviews for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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A truly unique and wonderful film from a director who stands apart in the French cinema canon. Full Review |
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Everything in the movie is heightened; watching it, you may feel as if the screen is emitting caffeine. Full Review |
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This bitter-sweet love story set to Michel Legrand's music from writer director Jacques Demy marks the film debut of the then 20 year old Catherine Deneuve, whose delicate beauty and screen presence has enchanted the world ever since Full Review |
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Deneuve!
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Seemingly banal and sentimental on the surface, [director Jacques] Demy has avoided these aspects by tasteful handling and the right balance in emotion, compassion and narrative. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Modern (for 1964) opera-musical in French is one of a kind.
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Umbrellas makes escapist play with the stuff of kitchen-sink social realism. Full Review |
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Catherine Deneuve won the Best Actress prize at Cannes, but the vocal performances of the entire ensemble are impeccable. Pure cinematic magic. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Deneuve is luminously beautiful throughout, looking fabulously chic even in a maternity dress. Full Review |
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Michel Legrand’s music is the film’s heartbeat, and it soars and dips according to the melodrama. Full Review |
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As a filmlover, discovering a masterpiece is like finding buried treasure. Full Review |
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Not only has he resurrected the quaint and artificial device of having the dialogue set to music and unrealistically sung, but he uses this operatic method to tell a story that is so banal... it wouldn't get beyond a reader in Hollywood. Full Review |
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As great as movies get. Full Review |
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A New Wave masterpiece... coursing with at first the unruly passion of young love and then the measured, mannered wiseness of adolescence’s surrender to adulthood. Full Review |
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She [Deneuve] steals the entire film. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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You must love musicals and sentimental romance to enjoy Jacques Demy’s all-singing film opera featuring the grand melodies of composer Michel Legrand. Full Review |
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