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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (French: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a 1964 musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music by Michel Legrand. Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo star as two young lovers in the French city of Cherbourg, separated by circumstance.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: Directed by Jacques Demy. With Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel. A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Jacques Demy
- 1964-12-16
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Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, 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.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, French musical film, released in 1964, that is unusual in that literally all of the dialogue in the movie—from mundane conversations to emotional confrontations—is sung.
Director-writer Jacques Demy dared to present a rather poignant and melancholy story in musical format, relating the tale of a torrid love affair between a teenage girl (played by Catherine Deneuve) and a young auto mechanic (Nino Castelnuovo) in Cherbourg, France, whose lives are dramatically torn apart when he is drafted to serve in the Algerian War.
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•Studio: Landau Releasing Corporation
•Director and writer: Jacques Demy
•Producer: Mag Bodard
•Music: Michel Legrand
•Catherine Deneuve (Geneviève Emery)
•Nino Castelnuovo (Guy Foucher)
•Anne Vernon (Madame Emery)
•Marc Michel (Roland Cassard)
•Foreign-language film (France)
•Writing (story and screenplay—written directly for the screen)
•Music score (substantially original)
•Scoring of music (adaptation or treatment)
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Geneviève (Catherine Deneuve), a beautiful young Frenchwoman who works at a small-town boutique selling umbrellas, falls for dashing mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). Their brief romance is...
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- Musical, Romance
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo.
