Film
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Director
- Jacques Demy
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 92 mins
Jacques Demy’s 1964 homage to his beloved Hollywood musicals, with Catherine Deneuve as a young woman who works in her widowed mother’s umbrella shop and marries a diamond merchant for security after she falls pregnant by a mechanic. It’s insubstantial and sugary, yet inexplicably popular.
It’s back on screen in the BFI musicals! The Greatest Show on Screen season.