The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg French Les Parapluies de Cherbourg is a 1964 FrenchGerman international coproduction musical film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo. The music was written by Michel Legrand. The film dialogue is all sung as recitative, even the most casual conversation similar in style to an opera.

Madame Emery and her beautiful 17yearold daughter Genevive Deneuve sell umbrellas at their tiny and financially struggling boutique in the coastal town of Cherbourg in Normandy, France, in the late 1950s. Guy Castelnuovo, is a handsome young auto mechanic who lives with, and cares for, his sickly aunt, godmother Elise. Guy and Genevive are deeply in love they want to get married, and they want to name their first child Franoise. Madeleine Ellen Farner is the quiet, shy, dedicated young caregiver who looks after Guys aunt Madeleine also has feelings for Guy, but has not expressed this. Suddenly Guy is drafted and must leave to become a soldier in the Algerian War. The night before Guy leaves, he and Genevive pledge their undying love. Then they make love apparently for the first time and the very next day, Guy leaves.After a couple of months it becomes clear that Genevive is pregnant. She writes to Guy, but she feels abandoned when Guy writes back very infrequently her mother tells her this is a sign that Guy has forgotten her, and she should give up on him. Genevive has another suitor in Roland Cassard Marc Michel, a quiet, kind, young Parisian jeweler, who is very wealthy, and who wants to marry her even after he finds out that she is carrying another mans child. Cassard had previously unsuccessfully wooed the title character in Lola he relates a version of this story to Madame Emery, who repeatedly urges Genevive to be sensible and embrace a secure future with Cassard. Genevive finally decides she will accept Roland, and they are married in a great cathedral, but Genevive does not seem happy with her choice. ........

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