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Umbrellas of Cherbourg
FRANCE · 1964

Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Jacques Demy
doomed romance class conflict fate and separation post-war France color symbolism
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Synopsis

A bittersweet musical romance entirely sung. Greta Gerwig cited it as the visual blueprint for Barbieland in Barbie.

Cinema Atlas Connection
It’s a movie that I've been obsessed with for a really long time. [...] I think seeing that movie for the first time was really eye-opening for me, just in terms of what movies could do with music and how music could be totally integrated into the drama.

Gerwig points to the candy-colored world of Jacques Demy's 1964 musical 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' as an early influence.

— Greta Gerwig  ·  Rolling Stone interview by Alex Morris
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