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Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (re-release)
Zeitgeist Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Catherine Deneuve,
Nino Castelnuovo,
Anne Vernon,
Marc Michel,
Ellen Farner,
and
Mireille Perrey
Jacques Demy's 1964 musical fantasy stars Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Foreign
|
Musical
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jacques Demy
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jacques Demy
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 25, 1997
Video: February 13, 2001
Theatrical: February 13, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
91 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France / West Germany |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg"; Golden Palm, 1964 Cannes Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A 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.

90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Demy, 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.

90
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
A glorious romantic confection unlike any other in movie history.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
The 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.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A surprisingly effective film, touching and knowing and, like Deneuve, ageless.

88
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Although most movies favor passion and true love, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg shows that another less demanding, more subtle kind of love has its own appeal.

70
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The wonderful-terrible dervish of Umbrellas reaches peak abandon, worthy of Vincente Minnelli, when Geneviève sobs out a plaint for Guy as a carnival whirls outside the shop.

70
TV Guide
Staff (Not Credited)
By 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]

70
Variety
Staff (Not Credited)
It takes nerve to make a pic in which all dialog is sung. Also, there is no dancing and this is not a filmed operetta or opera. [review of original release]


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