- Studio: Landau Releasing Organization (LRO)
- Release Date: Feb 13, 2004
- Starring: Anne Vernon, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo
- Summary: Jacques Demy's 1964 musical fantasy stars Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo.
- Director: Jacques Demy
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Musical
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 9
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Mixed: 0 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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100A heartfelt, passionate, tragic musical suite made up of these formulas, which the film both celebrates and wryly examines to discover their inner logic: how they actually work, what they do and don't do.
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90The 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.
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90Demy, his cinematographer Jean Rabier and production designer Bernard Evein created an operatic masterpiece of romanticism, which makes a modest but effective antidote to the harsh era of cynicism that has pervaded world cinema ever since.
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70By inflating the life of a common shop girl into a musical spectacle, Demy succeeds in turning a tedious existence into a fantasy, yet he and cinematographer Jean Rabier and art director Bernard Evein do so without creating a false world. [review of original release]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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PeterW.10Beyond comparison with any other film. It is unique in so many ways. It may very well be perfect.
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JayH8
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