Les Parapluies de Cherbourg = The umbrellas of Cherbourg / Janus Films ; Ciné-Tamaris Films ; Mag Bodard présente ; scénario et dialogue de Jacques Demy ; mis en musique par Michel Legrand ; une co-production franco-allemande Prac Film, Madeleine Films (Paris), Beta Film (Munich) ; un film de Jacques Demy.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2756D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 716.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, 2017Description: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (illustrations ; 19 cm.)Content type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681432939
- 1681432935
- Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Parapluies de Cherbourg (Motion picture)
- Cinematography, Jean Rabier; production designer, Bernard Evein; editor, A.M. Cotret, M. Teisseire; costumes, J. Moreau; music written and directed by Michel Legrand.
- Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize Winner, 1964.
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Main Library | DVD | New | WORLD UMBRELLA | Available | 33111010005458 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 Umbrellas of Cherbourg is closest in form to a cinematic opera. Composer Michel Legrand composed the score, modeling it around the patterns of everyday conversation. Umbrellas was re-released in 1997. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
In French; optional subtitles in English.
Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Mireille Perrey, J. Champion, P. Caden, J.P. Dorat, B. Fradet, M. Benoist, P. Dumat, D. Blank, J. Carat, Harald Wolff.
Cinematography, Jean Rabier; production designer, Bernard Evein; editor, A.M. Cotret, M. Teisseire; costumes, J. Moreau; music written and directed by Michel Legrand.
Title from title frame.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Special features: Once upon a time ... "The umbrellas of , a 2008 documentary; interview from 2014 with film scholar Rodney Hill; French television interview from 1964 featuring director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand discussing the film; audio recordings of interviews with actor Catherine Deneuve (1983) and Legrand (1991) at the National Film Theatre in London; restoration demonstration; original theatrical trailer; an essay by critic Jim Ridley (on insert).
Geneviève, a shop assistant, falls in love with Guy, a gas station mechanic. But a life with him will not be in her future. A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
For private home use only.
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize Winner, 1964.