Umbrellas of Cherbourg

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The most heart breaking film because it shows how ordinary love is. We expect a confection, and its center is not cherries but dust .

― anthony, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well cheeries have pits in the centre anyways. Love may have a dusty centre but its gold dust

― Pennysong Hanle y, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it is such a sad movie . It has Catherine Denuve giving up on love for secuirty and wealth. That scene at the end at the esso with the black mercedes and the white esso .

― anthony, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Beautiful colours, but where were the songs? Just a vaguely melodic libretto. Great story though, I'll concede.

Has anybody seen 'Jacquot de Nantes', a biopic of Demy by his wife (I think), Agnes Varda? Luuuuurvely.

― Will McKenzie, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That was the point, it was an existenstal opera , not a hollywood musical.

― anthony, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a hiphop versh has been rattling around my head for years now. Usher plays the diamond dealer.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How can anything existential have a point?

― Will McKenzie, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

Is it true that Catherine Deneuve reveals herself to be a complete airhead in her recently published autobiography?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

umbrellas are the shit.

― umbrellas are the shit, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

Her autobiography is apparently just a collection of random notes and ephemera that was never supposed to be released and was never edited, but she reluctantly agreed to issue it to stem the tide of unauthorised biographies and whatnot. It's not a proper autobiography by any means.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

As for the movie -- fucking brilliant. One of my five favourite films.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

And Anthony, quite OTM.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

I just heard the theme song of the related movie Les Demoiselles De Rochefort on the excellent album Camino Del Sol by Antena.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Rochefort is pretty good too. Gene Kelly actually has a small role in it.

― jedidiah (jedidiah), Thursday, 15 September 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Rochefort is fantastic, and Antena's cover of the theme is just slightly better than the original because Isabelle's a better vocalist.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 15 September 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

fifteen years pass...

RIP Beautiful Nino, My eyes nearly popped out of my head the first time I saw you.

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― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 10 September 2021 01:47 (four years ago)

three years pass...

New 4K scan on Criterion!

https://www.criterion.com/films/27933-the-umbrellas-of-cherbourg

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 February 2025 17:29 (eleven months ago)

Also currently in cinemas

― joey crack, aka kaiser saucer (sic), Friday, 14 February 2025 17:49 (eleven months ago)

The most heart breaking film because it shows how ordinary love is. We expect a confection, and its center is not cherries but dust

very poetic thread leader

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 14 February 2025 19:42 (eleven months ago)

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