Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Kirpianuscus Always I considered this film as brilliant example of real cinema. for reasons escaping from the skin of words. for a special form of beauty. for the courage of director. for performances and colors and story. and, yes, especially for music. it seems be a musical. but it is so different by one ! for a sort of...magic. who remains in your memory. who determes you to see it time by time. and for the great emotion defining it as a n experience. it is real cinema example because it is not entertainment. it is not refuge for blockbuster pieces. it is not a demonstration. it is not a show. it could be a confession. about love, life, Cherbourg, umbrellas shop and compromises. in the most delicate and precise manner. a film who remains the best answer when, for understand the life, need, for 90 minutes, escape from it. a gem, maybe. or just the real cinema.

capone666 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Busking is almost like living in a musical except teenagers steal your change-filled hat.Fortunately, the vocalists in this musical have real jobs to do while they sing.Umbrella saleswoman Geneviève (Catherine Deneuve) is smitten with mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). But when he's conscripted into the Algerian war, she is left alone and pregnant in their French village.Encourage by her mother (Anne Vernon) to marry the local jeweler (Marc Michel), Guy returns from war to discover Geneviève has left Cherbourg with the daughter that he never knew he had.Years later, a chance encounter finds the former lovers face to face for the first time in forever.Considered an unorthodox musical on account that all of the dialogue is sung similar to an opera, this brightly hued tale is also unique in its true-to-life take on love and its unpredictability.Interestingly enough, karaoke in Cherbourg is actually talking off-key.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

bob the moo This film has been name-dropped by many recently – or at least by those much more versed in cinema than I. I try not to be swayed by this – although it helps that the IMDb comments contain a good handful of overly snobby comments about how unintelligent others must be for not loving this film. So let's take this as another sign of my lack of intelligence then, because I did not find Umbrellas of Cherbourg to be as great as many suggest. There is a lot to love about it though. The great colors and style throughout; it is dated to a time and place that maybe didn't ever exist – and it looks great, and feels so effortless in its coolness. This quality is very much part of the ending too, however the conclusion to the film is much more than the beautifully shot moment that it is – it carries an emotional weight and honesty to it that really works well.The score adds plenty of color, and fits the production design to a tee. Unfortunately, though the singing left me cold – which understandably had a massive impact on how I was able to enjoy the film. I did not like the singing style throughout. The way it was done seemed to make all the delivery sound the same. It also seemed to reduce the narrative in nuance and detail, leaving it rather broad most of the time. It still had strong moments, where the actors gave more than the material offered them in the dialogue, but mostly it felt limited.For sure it was still a very cool watch, with several great moments – the best of which is a very strong ending – however too much of it failed to land with me.

Ronnie Spencer when I was in high school, taking french, the teacher would occasionally push a tape into a slot and show a "movie." the idea was for us kids to hear the language. well, this was one of the movies. at the time, my feelings concerning "umbrellas" were... truthfully, I didn't know what to think. as a seventeen year old I don't think I would have recommended it. channel surfing last night I came across it again on TCM. what a difference 9000 days makes. this is a very unique film. it's not a musical, even with the sung dialog, jazzy score and saturated colors. it's stylish camera work/art direction doesn't contradict the neorealism aspect either. It enhances it.even with the "star crossed lovers" aspect, the film isn't sentimental or corny. and the socio-economic angle is also treated tastefully.This is an ART film in the true sense of the term. and Anne Vernon. Je t'aime.