Fresh
It continues to charm and delight for the same reasons it did back in 1964.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
A film for all the young lovers of the world.
1964 · 1h 32m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Jacques Demy
Overview
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
99%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It is a small picture, a boutique musical. But it's lovely.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
As spun-sugar holiday treats go, "Umbrellas" is hard to resist.
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Fresh
Umbrellas makes escapist play with the stuff of kitchen-sink social realism.
Ben Walters, Time Out
Rotten
Not only has he resurrected the quaint and artificial device of having the dialogue set to music and unrealistically sung, but he uses this operatic method to tell a story that is so banal... it wouldn't get beyond a reader in Hollywood.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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