The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

[doversoul1]

I have never expected to see this again. Good old days.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/06/the-umbrellas-of-cherbourg-review-catherine-deneuve-jacques-demy

[burning dog]

[kernelbogey]

I have never expected to see this again. Good old days.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...e-jacques-demy

Aaaah... mais oui!

[gurnemanz]

It is associated in my memory with Le Bonheur by Agnès Varda which I must have seen around the same time at the student Film Soc, i.e. about 50 years ago. I don't think I have seen either since and may well now seek them out, so thanks for the nudge.

[Conchis]

An excellent film, which I have on DVD but which I’ve not watched in a long time.

My chief memories of the film: the excellence of the photography but ‘that song’ being a bit played to death.

Also: the man whom Catherine Deneuze marries looks a right dodgy geezer, but he’s not supposed to be, is he?

[doversoul1]

An excellent film, which I have on DVD but which I’ve not watched in a long time.

My chief memories of the film: the excellence of the photography but ‘that song’ being a bit played to death.

Also: the man whom Catherine Deneuze marries looks a right dodgy geezer, but he’s not supposed to be, is he?

...looks or looked?

I have quite a few films I prefer not to revisit for various reasons. Maybe this is one of them but I am very glad to see it being shown again after all this time.

He would have been pleased.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/27/michel-legrand-obituary

[ardcarp]

No connection, but here's a pic wot I took in Carloforte.....



I never saw the film, but I'd love to, following all the nostalgic comments above.

[Serial_Apologist]

An excellent film, which I have on DVD but which I’ve not watched in a long time.

My chief memories of the film: the excellence of the photography but ‘that song’ being a bit played to death.

Also: the man whom Catherine Deneuze marries looks a right dodgy geezer, but he’s not supposed to be, is he?

Mon dieu - you have Deneuve to mis-spell her name!

[Andy Freude]

Mon dieu - you have Deneuve to mis-spell her name!

Excellent!

[pastoralguy]

I remember showing this movie as projectionist of the school film club. I couldn't believe how beautiful Ms. Deneuve was. 40 years later, I'm still in awe of her!

[Serial_Apologist]

I remember showing this movie as projectionist of the school film club. I couldn't believe how beautiful Ms. Deneuve was. 40 years later, I'm still in awe of her!

I was living and working just around the corner from where, at the time, they were filming Polansky's "Repulsion" - I remember well the workmen's hut on the traffic island outside S Ken tube station depicted in the film. That Italian cafeteria where the boyfriend fuitlessly waits for her was still there in the late 1980s - I must check and see if it still is, next time I am in the area. Imagine how I would have felt as a 19-year old to have chanced across Deneuve - unfortunately I was not aware that this was taking place! Two years later I saw her in "Belle de Jour" in Zurich: I have the DVD of that, but I'm not so sure it would be made today.

[kernelbogey]

It is associated in my memory with Le Bonheur by Agnès Varda which I must have seen around the same time at the student Film Soc, i.e. about 50 years ago. I don't think I have seen either since and may well now seek them out, so thanks for the nudge.

I have the same mental association - I saw them both while at University - and desire to see both again.

[kernelbogey]

I was living and working just around the corner from where, at the time, they were filming Polansky's "Repulsion" - I remember well the workmen's hut on the traffic island outside S Ken tube station depicted in the film. That Italian cafeteria where the boyfriend fuitlessly waits for her was still there in the late 1980s - I must check and see if it still is, next time I am in the area. Imagine how I would have felt as a 19-year old to have chanced across Deneuve - unfortunately I was not aware that this was taking place! Two years later I saw her in "Belle de Jour" in Zurich: I have the DVD of that, but I'm not so sure it would be made today.

Your post recalls for me that Polansky included in Repulsion two buskers whom I would see around Soho, in particular, at around that time. A moustachioed man playing the clarinet (IIRC) as he walked, with a companion who played the spoons, shuffling backwards in front of the clarinettist, on the edge of the pavement or just off it. It was quite a thrill to see them memorialised in the movie as I felt a kind of affection for them as Soho eccentrics.

[doversoul1]

I was living and working just around the corner from where, at the time, they were filming Polansky's "Repulsion" - I remember well the workmen's hut on the traffic island outside S Ken tube station depicted in the film. That Italian cafeteria where the boyfriend fuitlessly waits for her was still there in the late 1980s - I must check and see if it still is, next time I am in the area. Imagine how I would have felt as a 19-year old to have chanced across Deneuve - unfortunately I was not aware that this was taking place! Two years later I saw her in "Belle de Jour" in Zurich: I have the DVD of that, but I'm not so sure it would be made today.

Tristana directed by Luis Buñuel was another. Looking back, I don’t think I understood what it was (really) all about. I was simply fascinated by what I saw on the screen.