Directed by:
Jacques DemyScreenplay:
Jacques DemyCinematography:
Jean RabierComposer:
Michel LegrandCast:
Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Jacques Demy, Paul Pavel, Dorothée Blanck, Ellen Farner, Michel Legrand, Philippe Dumat (more)VOD (5)
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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 (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). A completely sung movie, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is closest in form to a cinematic opera. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Awards
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- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 1966 - Jacques Demy (Best Original Screenplay)
- 1966 - Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand (Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score))
- 1966 - Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
- 1966 - Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment
- 1965 - Jacques Demy (Best Foreign Language Film)
Golden Globes
- 1966 - Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
Cannes Film Festival
- 1964 - Jacques Demy (Grand Prize)
- 1964 - Jacques Demy (C.S.T. Prize)