The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Jacques Demy, Nino Castelnuovo Cast: Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve
, Nino Castelnuovo
Nino Castelnuovo
, Marc Michel
Marc Michel
Jacques Demy
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Jacques Demy, Nino Castelnuovo Cast: Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve
, Nino Castelnuovo
Nino Castelnuovo
, Marc Michel
Marc Michel
Jacques Demy

Blu-ray (Color / Wide Screen)

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Overview

Jacques Demy's experimental musical, featuring a musical score by Michel Legrand and all-sung dialogue, is the film that catapulted Catherine Deneuve to international stardom. She plays Genevieve, a 17-year-old girl who is madly in love with local automobile mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). Genevieve's mother (Anne Vernon) runs a local flower shop and desperately needs money to save her business from collapsing. She is dead set against Genevieve's relationship with Guy, thinking that her daughter can do better for herself ... particularly when rich, middle-aged Roland Cassard (Marc Michel) walks into the shop and falls instantly in love with Genevieve. But Genevieve and Guy are in love and they meet clandestinely, ultimately consummating their relationship the night before Guy is set to leave for a two-year stint in the army. After Guy leaves, Genevieve finds out that she is pregnant. Roland offers to marry her and raise the child, and when Guy never writes back to her, she accepts his proposal. Finally, when Guy returns to town after two years in Algeria, he finds things have drastically changed. Having lost his love and with no prospects for the future, he drinks and sinks into a depression. But then Medelaine (Ellen Farmer), the woman who was a companion for Guy's elderly aunt, attracts his eye and he soon discovers she has always been in love with him.

Product Details

Release Date: 04/11/2017
UPC: 0715515196819
Original Release: 1964
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language: English
Time: 1:32:00
Sales rank: 3,703

Special Features

Once Upon a Time..."The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," a 2008 documentary; Interview from 2014 with film scholar Rodney Hill; French television interview from 1964 featuring director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand discussing the film; Audio recordings of interviews with actor Catherine Deneuve; (1983) and Legrand (1991) at the National Film Theatre in London; Restoration demonstration; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Catherine Deneuve Genevieve Emery
Nino Castelnuovo Guy
Marc Michel Roland Cassard
Ellen Farner Madeleine
Anne Vernon Madame Emery
Mireille Perrey Aunt Elise
Jean Champion Aubin
Pierre Caden Actor
Jean-Pierre Dorat Actor
Bernard Fradet Actor
Michel Benoist Actor
Philippe Dumat Actor
Harald Wolff Dubourg
Jane Carat Actor
Jean-Paul Chizat Actor
Patrick Bricard Actor
Bernard Garnier Actor
Francois Charet Actor
Jacques Camelinat Actor
Roger Perrinoz Actor
Paul Pavel Actor
Gisele Grandpre Actor
Rosalie Varda Francoise Cassard
Francois Foucher Actor
Dorothée Blank Girl in Cafe
Hervé Legrand François Foucher,Composer
Ellen Farmer Actor
Alfred Wolff Actor
Dorothee Blanck Actor
Jacques Demy Composer

Technical Credits
Jacques Demy Director,Screenwriter
Mag Bodard Producer
Gilbert de Goldschmidt Producer
Pierre Lazareff Producer
François Musy Sound Effects
Nino Castelnuovo Director
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