The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

critic Reviews

, 97% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Jacques Demy elevates the basic drama of everyday life into a soaring opera full of bittersweet passion and playful charm, featuring a timeless performance from Catherine Deneuve.
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Adam NaymanThe Ringer
    Charm may be in the eye of the beholder, but if you don't find this movie irresistible, you should get your eyesight checked.
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    Kevin MaherTimes (UK)
    Yet the hits, when they come, are immense.
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    Peter BradshawGuardian
    Deneuve brings to the film her own subtly erotic discontent and muted sadness.
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    Nigel AndrewsFinancial Times
    The film boasts music by Michel Legrand and token gusts of New Wave realism, lightened and made lithe for a lighter-footed genre. (The heroine loves a car mechanic.) Add colour photography to dazzle.
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    Noel MurrayThe Dissolve
    What's so overpoweringly beautiful about The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg is that it matches human-scaled feelings of regret with the color and intensity of the movies Demy loved as a boy.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Kenneth TuranLos Angeles Times
    It continues to charm and delight for the same reasons it did back in 1964.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Alan JonesRadio Times
    The stunning design, vivid candy colours and Catherine Deneuve's ethereal performance only add to the fairy-tale qualities of the haunting love story between a teenage shop girl and a garage attendant.
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    Cory WoodroofFor the Win (USA Today)
    It’s one of the best movies to come out of the 1960s, a devastating almost romance compete with some of the most gut-wrenching musical numbers you’re ever likely to see.


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  • , Rotten Tomatometer Score
    Judith CristNew York Herald Tribune
    It is all so sweet, so sentimental, so artsy, so craftsy, so pretty, so pretentious, so abysmally simple-minded.
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    Dilys PowellSunday Times (UK)
    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is something rare nowadays: a film which gives the impression of having been made with joy.
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