The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Jacques Demy
- 1964
- 1h 31m
- France, West Germany
Awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1963 for having an extraordinary moment in the history of cinema, a technicolor musical with Michel Legrand’s wonderful compositions, as magical as cinema and as bittersweet as life.
Synopsis
A young girl lives with her widowed mother, the owner of an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a twenty-year-old car mechanic with whom she plans to secretly get married. However, after announcing it to her mother, she forbids her to do so. When the young man decides to present himself in the army and departs for Algeria, the girl discovers that she is pregnant. After her mother’s insistence, she is forced to accept a precious stone dealer’s marriage proposal.
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
Oscars
1965
Nominated for Best Original Song
Oscars
1966
Palme d'Or
Cannes Film Festival
1964
OCIC Award
Cannes Film Festival
1964
