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 compo-ser Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.

Film Info:

• France

• 1964

• 92 minutes

• Color

• 1.85:1

• French

• Spine #716

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