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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
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Original name: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
sentimental, romantic, sweet, colourful, lyrical, art house, atmospheric, emotional, stylized, sexy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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