Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
December 28, 2014 10:03 AM Subscribe
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg turned 50 this year. The movie in full. Or here: Part 1 Part 2. (These are not tears. There's a draft in the room making my eyes water.) Reviews: Songs in the Key of Everyday Life/Jonathan Rosenbaum/Chicago Reader, Slant, Ebert.
Jacques Demy wrote and directed the film. A Film and Its Era: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Michel Legrand wrote the music for the film. Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) Bande Originale Soundtrack.
Also available is another Demy film, the ever delirious The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort). Part 1 Part 2 Part 3. Review: Rosenbaum/Chicago Reader. The music was by Michel Legrand. Soundtrack (starts at the 3:16 mark).
Jacques Demy wrote and directed the film. A Film and Its Era: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Michel Legrand wrote the music for the film. Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) Bande Originale Soundtrack.
Also available is another Demy film, the ever delirious The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort). Part 1 Part 2 Part 3. Review: Rosenbaum/Chicago Reader. The music was by Michel Legrand. Soundtrack (starts at the 3:16 mark).
watching it's one of my cheery holiday traditions, along with other joyful stuff like better off dead, the long day closes, eyes wide shut, the odd couple, blade runner, sandra lee's holiday eps, a tree grows in brooklyn, emmet otter's jugband christmas, and the apartment (and shop around the corner which is absolutely the best holiday film ever, but does keep the theme i seem to have going of cheery topics like suicide attempts/murder/disillusionment/poverty/alcoholism/lost childhood for christmas).
posted by ifjuly at 10:36 AM on December 28, 2014
posted by ifjuly at 10:36 AM on December 28, 2014
Young Girls is the greatest movie ever made. What music!
posted by Fnarf at 11:01 AM on December 28, 2014
posted by Fnarf at 11:01 AM on December 28, 2014
Two of the many great movies I've never seen, so thanks! I have terrifying deadlines, but I tried the Vimeo link for Umbrellas and was immediately charmed by the opening overhead shot. It also solved the mystery of a song my Mum used to play on her radio station years ago (Genérique by Michel Legrand), which led to a Google search that led me to this Miles Davis track, and I'm done.
I have to catch up on all of this later. Too much goodness, so little time.
posted by maudlin at 11:26 AM on December 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
I have to catch up on all of this later. Too much goodness, so little time.
posted by maudlin at 11:26 AM on December 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
This was one of the first movies I rented in the early days of Netflix. It's absolutely gorgeous, and I'm so excited to watch Young Girls. Thanks!
posted by Partario at 11:33 AM on December 28, 2014
posted by Partario at 11:33 AM on December 28, 2014
Fans of Parapluies and Rochefort should check out Demy's later operetta, the wrongly panned Une chambre en ville.
posted by eschatfische at 12:36 PM on December 28, 2014
posted by eschatfische at 12:36 PM on December 28, 2014
Amazing films! Those Michel Legrand soundtracks just send me into another world.
Also note: that crazy purple wallpaper in Maman's parlor is something else.
posted by ovvl at 1:37 PM on December 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
Also note: that crazy purple wallpaper in Maman's parlor is something else.
posted by ovvl at 1:37 PM on December 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
I have only the most basic understanding of French but have been amazed to find that I can understand it in this movie. I imagine that if everyone in francophone countries would just agree to sing their interactions with me, I'd do fine. Of course, I can't sing back, so these interactions would be unsatisfyingly short musical numbers.
posted by Morrigan at 5:54 PM on December 28, 2014
posted by Morrigan at 5:54 PM on December 28, 2014
Thanks, great post.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:46 PM on December 28, 2014
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:46 PM on December 28, 2014
that crazy purple wallpaper in Maman's parlor is something else.
All the wallpaper in Maman's place is just so fucking lurid I can in no way cope.
posted by Pallas Athena at 3:07 AM on December 29, 2014
All the wallpaper in Maman's place is just so fucking lurid I can in no way cope.
posted by Pallas Athena at 3:07 AM on December 29, 2014
Metafilter: I'm so excited to watch Young Girls.
posted by Captain l'escalier at 6:32 AM on December 29, 2014
posted by Captain l'escalier at 6:32 AM on December 29, 2014
The Criterion Collection has a 6-film box set of Jacques Demy's films. I bought it during a half-price sale a couple months ago, mainly because I wanted Umbrellas and Young Girls and figured that for half off I might as well get the rest.
posted by dnash at 9:26 AM on December 30, 2014
posted by dnash at 9:26 AM on December 30, 2014
Does the Criterion set have subtitles available? I don't see any mention on the Criterion site.
posted by JimN2TAW at 6:06 PM on December 30, 2014
posted by JimN2TAW at 6:06 PM on December 30, 2014
Great post. Thanks, cwest.
posted by homunculus at 9:03 PM on December 30, 2014
posted by homunculus at 9:03 PM on December 30, 2014
Does the Criterion set have subtitles available?
Yes, all of them. It looks like for most of them it's also a new translation. (I haven't watched them all yet.)
posted by dnash at 9:38 PM on December 30, 2014
Yes, all of them. It looks like for most of them it's also a new translation. (I haven't watched them all yet.)
posted by dnash at 9:38 PM on December 30, 2014
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