MUSICALS!: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
LES PARAPLUIES!!!
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of war, trauma, heartbreak, mention of bulimia and self-harm during discussion of Spencer.
Jordan aka The Lady Dame returns to the show this week to watch one of the greatest musicals ever made, specifically because it’s an anti-musical. Of course, a film that wins a Palme d’Or doesn’t really need us to gush over it, but upon first seeing this, it’s so against every musical trope you’ve ever known that it might turn you off entirely. If you hang with it, though, this movie will unfold as a sweet, thoughtful, mature story told entirely (and we mean entirely) through music. The French New Wave was known for breaking rules, but the subtle subversion of tropes in this film is so potent as to do something nearly impossible - make a movie musical that might be better on screen than on the stage. Grab your umbrella at the shop as we discuss 1964’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpts taken from the film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg are © 1992 cine tamaris.
Excerpt taken from the film Bande à Part (Band of Outsiders) is © 1964 Gaumont - Columbia Tristar Films (France).
