Paraplyerna i Cherbourg

Les parapluies de Cherbourg

...manages to combine, with a peculiarly Gallic shrug, wistful romance with resigned cynicism.

Catherine Deneuve brings an unworldly, subtly erotic charm to Jacques Demy’s rereleased pastel rainbow of a musical.

Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand’s reinvention of the movie musical has tinsel, Technicolor, and a beating, broken heart.

Of course, the presence of the impossibly beautiful Deneuve and Castelnuovo as the film's amants could transcend anything -- what perfect specimens they are!

...it does not follow the usual musical formula of boy-meets-girl and a happy ending. In fact, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg has perhaps the most bittersweet ending of all musicals.