The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – 1996 RR

Condition: Excellent/Very Good

Printers Proof: Rolled as Issued 

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Size: 17 x 13 inches (43 x 32.5 cm)

Printers' proof for the 1996 BFI re-release of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg obtained directly from Mike Leedham of 2D Design Ltd, who were responsible for the re-imaging of the poster.  

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a 1964 musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music by Michel Legrand. Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo star as two young lovers in the French city of Cherbourg, separated by circumstance. The film's dialogue is entirely sung as recitative, including casual conversation, and is sung through like some operas and stage musicals.

Geneviève is in love with car mechanic Guy, but her mother has other ideas. Her umbrella shop is not doing well; besides, there is the war in Algeria… In Demy’s bittersweet classic Michel Legrand’s achingly lovely score, the vibrant colour-coding of Bernard Evein’s art direction, Jean Rabier’s elegant, fluid camerawork and the uniformly rhapsodic performances are brought together to turn an unusually sombre – even dark – storyline into an enchanting fairy tale that muses wisely, and very movingly, on the workings of chance and fate.

"For all the young lovers of the wide, wide world..."

Tags: French 1990s British 1960s Romance Drama Miscellanea Printers Proof