Les parapluies de cherbourg (1964) 2DVD L'univers de Jacques Demy (1990) / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg / Directed by Jacques Demy / Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Anne Vernon, Nino Castelnuovo, Marc Michel / Documentary: The World of Jacques Demy - directed by Agnés Varda

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REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio: French 2.0

Subtitles: English, Spanish

Runtime: 87 + 87 minutes (2 discs)

COLLECTOR'S EDITION - 2 DVD / ÉDITION COLLECTOR 2 DVD

English Summary:

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (French: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a 1964 musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy and starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo. The music was composed by Michel Legrand. The film dialogue is entirely sung as recitative, including casual conversation, and is sung-through, or through-composed like some operas and stage musicals. 

Madame Emery and her beautiful 16-year-old daughter Geneviève have a tiny, struggling umbrella boutique in the coastal town of Cherbourg in Normandy, France. Guy is a handsome young auto mechanic who lives with and cares for his sickly aunt and godmother Elise. Though Geneviève's mother disapproves, Guy and Geneviève are deeply in love; they plan to marry and name their first child Françoise. At the same time, Madeleine, a quiet young woman who looks after Guy's aunt, is secretly in love with Guy.

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The World of Jacques Demy

1995 ‘L'univers de Jacques Demy’ Directed by Agnès Varda

In tribute to her late husband, the wife of the respected French director honors his life and artistic works by highlighting his vision in clips and interviews.

French Summary:

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg est un film musical franco-ouest-allemand écrit et réalisé par Jacques Demy, sorti en 1964. C'est le premier des deux films entièrement chantés de Jacques Demy, le second étant Une chambre en ville (1982).

Cherbourg, novembre 1957. Geneviève, âgée de dix-sept ans, vit avec sa mère, Madame Emery, jeune veuve qui tient une boutique de parapluies rue de la Tour-Carrée, à l'enseigne Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. Geneviève est amoureuse de Guy, mécanicien dans un garage. Sa mère désapprouve la relation quand elle l'apprend. Le jeune homme est élevé par sa tante (et marraine) Élise, gravement malade¹.

Guy est alors appelé pour faire son service militaire en Algérie. Les deux amoureux, qui se sont promis un amour éternel, se font des adieux poignants sur un quai de la gare

"Après avoir fait un film de fiction sur l'enfance de Jacques (JACQUOT DE NANTES), mon intention a été de faire un documentaire – relativement objectif – sur Jacques Demy, adulte et cinéaste. J'ai recueilli des témoignages et suscité des réactions. J'ai moi-même apporté des souvenirs et des documents sur lui mais j'ai souvent passé le relais à ses amis, à ses proches, aux acteurs et actrices qui ont travaillé avec lui, à des " fans " et à trois demoiselles qui ne l'ont pas connu mais qui circulent naturellement dans son univers." Agnès Varda

Jacques Demy (French: [ʒak dəmi]; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style. Demy's style drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the documentary realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).