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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
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Everyday exchanges are sung, so the musical convention becomes the film's ordinary language rather than an interruption. Colour and melody preserve the intensity of a first love while time complicates it. Save this older, wholly sung choice for when you want to try the form at its most committed, with subtitles if needed.
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About The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.