The Umbrellas of Cherbourg story
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (French: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a 1964 musical romantic drama film directed and written by Jacques Demy and starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo. The music was composed by Michel Legrand. The film dialogue is all sung as recitative, including casual conversation, and is sung-through, or through-composed like some operas and stage musicals.
14 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| romantic love | choice | first Guy and Geneviève; then Roland and Geneviève; then Guy and Madeleine |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Guy and Geneviève |
| choosing between lovers | major | pregnant Geneviève was in love with Guy but married Roland - for money and respectability |
| long-distance relationship | major | Guy and Geneviève from her perspective when he went to the Algerian war |
| mother and daughter | major | Emery and Geneviève |
| teen romance | major | Geneviève was 16 and Guy probably not much older |
| unplanned pregnancy | major | Geneviève got pregnant the night before Guy went to the war |
| aunt and nephew | minor | Guy lived with his aunt |
| coping with the death of a family member | minor | Guy grieved for his dead aunt. |
| facing financial ruin | minor | Emery was on the verge of loosing her umbrella shop and had to sell a perl necklace to get by |