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