Sunday, May 7, 2017

Les parapluies de Cherbourg AKA The umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) - classic French romance from director Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 91 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Jacques Demy
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058450/

Cast

Catherine Deneuve ... Geneviève Emery
Nino Castelnuovo ... Guy Foucher
Anne Vernon ... Madame Emery
Marc Michel ... Roland Cassard
Ellen Farner ... Madeleine
Mireille Perrey ... Tante Élise
Jean Champion ... Aubin
Pierre Caden ... Bernard
Jean-Pierre Dorat ... Jean

Description: Told in four acts, the lives of Geneviève Emery and Guy Foucher of Cherbourg France are presented. Act 1 begins in November 1957, when sixteen year old Geneviève, who works in her widowed mother's umbrella shop called "Les parapluies de Cherbourg", and twenty year old Guy, who works as a mechanic at a gas station, are madly in love and want to get married. They are reluctant to tell anyone not only of their want to get married, but of their relationship. Geneviève believes her mother will think her too young, and would want her to marry someone with better prospects, especially considering her own tenuous financial situation. And Guy is more concerned now about not abandoning his ailing godmother, Aunt Élise, who raised him, and who he looks after along with a young woman named Madeleine. Act 2, told largely from Geneviève's perspective, begins in February 1958. Guy, drafted to fight for the French in Algeria, has been gone for two months, and is expected to be gone for two years. Geneviève rarely hears from Guy. In order to solve their many problems, Geneviève's mother wants her to marry Roland Cassard, a refined and well appointed diamond merchant who travels often for his work but who is devoted to Geneviève whenever he is in Cherbourg. Geneviève, who still loves Guy but who she is slowly losing in terms of him as a person in her mind, has to decide what to do about Roland, especially as it may become more difficult to accept his proposal as time progresses. Act 3, told largely from Guy's perspective, begins in March 1959 upon his military discharge and return to Cherbourg. Life circumstances, including what happened during the war, has changed Guy, and he has to figure out what the next phase of his life will look like because of his new perspective. Act 4 takes place on one snowy day in December 1963, when Geneviève and Guy are shown in their current lives, that based on what has happened in those previous three acts.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/v4l33gbz


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.27 GB, 1999 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x560 ~> 720x540 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 127 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, Polish, German, Greek) posters and screenshots included