Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Jacques Demy

Guionista:

Jacques Demy (scenario and dialogue)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

16 diciembre 1964 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Musical | Romance

Frase comercial:

FOR ALL THE YOUNG LOVERS OF THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD...

Plot:

Geneviève, 17, lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She and Guy, a twenty-year-old auto mechanic...

Plot Keywords:

Aunt | Marriage | Mechanic | Umbrella | Teenage Girl

Premios:

Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A dazzling but slightly flawed jewel

Reparto

Catherine Deneuve	...	Geneviève Emery
Nino Castelnuovo	...	Guy Foucher
Anne Vernon	...	Madame Emery
Marc Michel	...	Roland Cassard
Ellen Farner	...	Madeleine
Mireille Perrey	...	Aunt Élise
Jean Champion	...	Aubin (as J. Champion)
Pierre Caden	...	Bernard (as P. Caden)
Jean-Pierre Dorat	...	Jean (as J.P. Dorat)
Bernard Fradet	...	Gas Station Apprentice (as B. Fradet)
Michel Benoist	...	Umbrella Buyer (as M. Benoist)
Philippe Dumat	...	Garage Customer in 1957 (as P. Dumat)
Dorothée Blank	...	Girl in Cafe (as D. Blank)
Jane Carat	...	Ginny (as J. Carat)
Harald Wolff	...	Monsieur Dubourg

También conocida como:

Die Regenschirme von Cherbourg (Alemania Occidental)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (USA)
Los paraguas de Cherburgo (Spain) [es]

Duración:

91 min

País:

France | Alemania Occidental

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby SR (restored version) (1992) | Mono

Clasificación:

UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (re-rating) (1997) | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:AL (re-rating) (2008) | South Korea:12 | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | Finland:S | France:U | Portugal:M/12 | Sweden:Btl

Locaciones de Filmación:

Cherbourg, Manche, France

Compañía:

Parc Film

Trivialidades:

Was the first French musical in color.

Citas:

Roland Cassard: We'll raise this child together. He'll be ours. Please accept, Genevieve. I don't want to upset you. I love you, Genevieve.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22 (2007) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

I Will Wait For You

A dazzling but slightly flawed jewel

This film is like a time capsule in more ways than one. The glimpses of Cherbourg are tantalizing, and somehow achingly beautiful for anyone who has ever spent any time there, and the color palette is simply stunning.

Catherine Deneuve looks stunning too (she never looked quite like this again - even in the second half of the film she has already changed). The simple plot is carried along, at least in the first half, by the convincing nature of the love between Deneuve's character and her "boyfriend" (whatever happened to that splendid English term?).

The film is slightly spoiled, however, by the rather disjointed plot in the second half, and the lack of variation in some of the sung dialogue (in fact there are no spoken words in the entire movie). However, it is worth watching for the look alone. The best music comes in the scene at the railway station, which somehow manages to feel emotionally authentic despite being so stylized.

So watch the movie if you can. There is no other like it.