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Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) dir. Jacques Demy
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Why is absence so heavy to bear?
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Catherine Deneuve, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964
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Catherine Deneuve on the set of "Les parapluies de Cherbourg" directed by Jacques Demy, 1963
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--The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, by Jacques Demy (1964)
A film in which the characters slide "into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance" (George Eliot). Is the message of the film to yield to those societal-parental-superegoic solicitations, or to fight for desire? Most yield. Most do not want to stay in the lower class. How easily we can be persuaded that we desire what we don't desire. But of course, it's not something as simple as false consciousness, which says nothing of the parallel enticement of socio-economic security and that utterly banal but no less faustian bargain we make when we forfeit our freedom for comfort.
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CATHERINE DENEUVE on the set of THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, 1964
There’s not a single thing about Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg that isn’t achingly romantic, and that includes all of the candy-colored costumes worn by Catherine Deneuve, at her most beautiful as umbrella shop girl Geneviève. I’ll never get over her array of hair ribbons and her pastel cardigans. or the little blue scarf she clutches to her heart upon saying goodbye to Guy, or her unfinished pink dancing dress, still stuck full of pins and that much lovelier for her girlish impatience to wear it out. Would the final scene be quite as perfectly melancholy if she weren’t so chic, her lollipop-hued youthful sweetness gone? Her clothes tell a story — and break your heart. - Entertainment Weekly
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Catherine Deneuve as Geneviève Émery
Nino Castelnuovo as Guy Foucher
Anne Vernon as Madame Émery
Marc Michel as Roland Cassard
Ellen Farner as Madeleine
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
Dir. Jacques Demy
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A minimalist illustrated poster for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
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Greta Gerwig cites The Umbrellas of Cherbourg one of her inspirations for Barbie.
While it could be that Barbie's hair in the scene where she visits Weird Barbie is a reference to Catherine Denueve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, I think it looks more like this sweet illustration from Barbie Magazine.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is also a favorite movie of Barbie doll designer Robert Best, whose illustrations can be seen on many collectible Barbie boxes. His illustration of a scene from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is below.
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