This classic French film from 1964 saw the launch of Catherine Deneuve’s career. It was directed by Jacques Demy with a musical score by Michel Legrand., This film won the Palme D’Or at Cannes in 1964 and in the United States, it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Foreign-Language Film, Best Original Screenplay (Demy), Best Original Score (Demy and Legrand), and Best Original Song for the film's main theme, "I Will Wait for You".
Geneviève (Catherine Deneuve) is in love with car mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo), but her mother (Anne Vernon) has other ideas. Her umbrella shop isn’t doing well; besides, there’s the war in Algeria… In Demy’s bittersweet classic Michel Legrand’s achingly lovely score, the vibrant colour-coding of Bernard Evein’s art direction, Jean Rabier’s elegant, fluid camerawork and the uniformly rhapsodic performances are brought together to turn an unusually sombre – even dark – storyline into an enchanting fairy tale that muses wisely, and very movingly, on the workings of chance and fate.
Charm may be in the eye of the beholder, but if you don't find this movie irresistible, you should get your eyesight checked. Adam Nayman The Ringer: Rotten Tomatoes
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