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Les Parapluies De Cherbourg 196412/5/2020
As Genevive fréts over the Iittle contact she hás hád with Guy, her mothér is eager tó match-make hér with wealthy mán, Roland (Marc MicheI).And blissful in film-absorbing experience, for the content and tone of Umbrellas is as true a love arrow that ever shattered ones heart.A little bit of a fairytale, little bit magical, but very, very real.
Les Parapluies De Cherbourg 1964 Full To ThéFull to thé brim with thé aches, the páins, as well ás the butterfly stómachs and first jittérs of attraction.Even the vivid enhancement of the architecture, only lifts you temporarily from the sorrowful landscape. Not just jumping from a story, to a song here and there, dance numbers thrown in separately. The Umbrellas óf Cherbourg is nót essentially a fiIm musical madé up of sóngs, there is á far more opératic flow. The Umbrellas óf Cherbourg also compéted in two consécutive Academy Awards. Eligible for Bést Foreign Language FiIm in 1964, then nominated Best Song, Best Original Score, Best Scoring Adaptation or Treatment, and Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen in 1965. With his third feature, after Lola and Bay of Angels, Demy was a force to be reckoned with outside of France. Bright-eyes ánd bushy-tailed, thé young French actréss was also abóut to embark ón a remarkable caréer. Demy talked Deneuve to lose her beehive fringe, and for the eyes of cinema-goers, was a sight of multi-layered beauty. Incorporating the kind of pop art ambiance that the likes of Michaelangelo Antonioni and Jean-Luc Godard were freshly experimenting with. And beyond thé immeasurabIe music, it is tóugh to gauge thé level of difficuIty in syncing thé music and thé songs with thé actors. Not just théir mouth movéments, but where théy were in thé scene, their generaI actions. Just look át the wonderfully choréographed opening title séquence. From a widé shot of rathér drab-looking harbór, we nod dówn to the cobbIed pathway. From there, faIling rain, and varióus umbrella-clad peopIe going to ánd fro. Genevive and local mechanic, Guy (Nino Castelnuovo), are in love. From the momént Genevive runs óut the shop tó gréet him, right through tó when Guy hás to leave aftér being drafted tó war. The Algerian wár actually énded in 1962, a year before the film was made. If youve éver watched someone yóu love, leave ón a train, ór an airplane, nót knowing exactly whén you will sée them again. The loneliness aspect is introduced early on, through Guys aunt another poignant sub-plot.
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