The angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow up quickly. Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors, and told entirely through lilting songs by the great composer Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by Ciné-Tamaris and approved by Mathieu Demy, director Jacques Demy’s son, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Alternate uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Once Upon a Time . . . “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” a 2008 documentary
- Interview with film scholar Rodney Hill
- French television interview from 1964 featuring Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand discussing the film
- Archival audio interviews with Legrand and actor Catherine Deneuve at the National Film Theatre in London
- Demonstration of the 2013 restoration
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Jim Ridley
New illustration by Michael Phillip Dunbabin