The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at Vidiots!

Screen icon Catherine Deneuve illuminates this stunning and bittersweet tale of love and loss as Genevieve a young and naive shopgirl. After falling in love with an auto mechanic and finding herself pregnant upon his departure for military service, the young Genevieve must choose between her distant lover or a more comfortable life with another man. With all-singing dialogue and music by legendary composer and musician Michel Legrand, it’s an opera like no other. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for 5 Academy Awards, Umbrellas of Cherbourg remains one of the most lauded and dazzling films of all time. Written and directed by Jacques Demy with Anne Vernon, Catherine Deneuve, Marc Michel, Mireille Perrey, Nino Castelnuovo. 1964, Digital, French with English subtitles, 93 min.