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FRANCE · 1964
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Synopsis
A bittersweet musical romance entirely sung. Greta Gerwig cited it as the visual blueprint for Barbieland in Barbie.
Cinematic DNA
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
More from Jacques Demy
France · French New Wave
Films with Similar Themes
doomed romance · class conflict · fate and separation · post-war France · color symbolism
