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"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"
1963
Directed by Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy's 1964 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winning masterpiece tells the ageless fairy tale of doomed love.  Catherine Deneuve stars in this sumptuously photographed romantic musical of two lovers who are split up by the Algerian war. The girl marries another when she discovers she is pregnant. He also marries; yet they meet again. All dialog is sung; with haunting music by Michel LeGrand and lyrics by Demy, including the song, "I Will Wait for You." "A masterpiece! More beautiful and more startling than ever!" (New York Daily News). "The kind of movie that audiences will remember all their lives" (Chicago Tribune). French with English subtitles. Color. Letterbox.  92 minutes.