The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Title: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Genre: Musical Romantic Drama Directed By: Jacques Demy Written By: Jacques Demy
Starring:
Catherine Deneuve
Anne Vernon
Nino Castelnuovo
Marc Michel
Music By: Michel Legrand Country: France Released: 1964 Duration: 01:32:25 Quality: 4K UHD 2160p Blu-ray Video
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Video: MPEG-H HEVC Video / 79,440 kbps / 2160p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / Main 10 @ Level 5.1 @ High / 4:2:0 / 10 bits / Limited Range / BT.709 / BT.709 / BT.709
Audio: 1: French / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3324 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) 2: French / LPCM Audio / 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English / 24.89 kbps
About:
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (French: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a 1964 musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music by Michel Legrand. Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo star as two young lovers in the French city of Cherbourg, separated by circumstance. The film's dialogue is entirely sung as recitative, including casual conversation, and is sung-through, or through-composed, like some operas and stage musicals. It has been seen as the second of an informal tetralogy of Demy films that share some of the same actors, characters, and overall atmosphere of romantic melancholy, coming after Lola (1961) and before The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and Model Shop (1969). The French-language film was a co-production between France and West Germany.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg won the Palme d'Or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Foreign-Language Film, Best Original Screenplay (Demy), and Best Original Score (Demy and Legrand). The film's main theme, "I Will Wait for You", was nominated for Best Original Song. It was later adapted into an English-language stage musical.
In 2018, a BBC Culture critics' poll ranked the film in the Top 100 Greatest Non-English Films of All Time.
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