The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Avg rating 8.4 / My rating TBC

1964 · Directed by Jacques Demy · With Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon

Film info

Runtime: 1h 33m · 93 min
IMDb: 7.8 / 10 (35,635 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: 97% (critics)
Metacritic: 86 / 100
TMDB: 7.4 / 10 (audience, 913 votes)
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About this film

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.

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