The film that helped launch Catherine Deneuve to international stardom, the wonderful The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg has a slender story: a pregnant shopgirl Geneviève (Deneuve) is separated from her ...

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, review: 'fresh and unpretentious elegance' Michel Legrand's music possessed an immediately communicative charm that few can match, says Rupert Christiansen By Rupert ...

Jacques Demy's all-timer musical classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (or Les Parapluies de Cherbourg in French) celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, initially opening in France back in 1964.

A Palme d’Or winner at Cannes in 1964, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a masterpiece of French cinema and the peak of writer-director Jacques Demy’s career. Inspired by Hollywood musicals, Demy ...

Nino Castelnuovo and Catherine Deneuve in 1964's "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" (Getty Images) Francesco “Nino” Castelnuovo, the Italian actor who starred in the Palme D’Or winner “The ...

The film that helped launch Catherine Deneuve to international stardom, the wonderful The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg has a slender story: a pregnant shopgirl Geneviève (Deneuve) is separated from her ...