1964 Palme d’Or Winner ‘The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg’ Celebrates 60th In Cannes With Special Screening And 2 New Documentaries – Cannes Film Festival
deadline.comIt has been a big week for the beloved 1964 musical, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the 1964 Palme d’Or and went on to international acclaim and five Oscar nominations, plus served as one of the key inspirations for Damien Chazelle’s Oscar winning La La Land.
The film got a special 60th Anniversary screening today at Cannes Classics of the exquisitely new restoration of the movie at the Agnes Varda Theatre which is named after the late director and is also wife of late Cherbourg writer/director Jacques Demy.
This week has also seen the World Premieres of two new documentaries related to the film here. On Saturday night at the Bunuel Theatre in the Palais came the premiere of Once Upon A Time: Michel Legrand , an extensive two hour documentary on the late great composer of Cherbourg and so much more.
Then last night, also at the Bunuel, was the unveiling of a new documenary directed by Florence Platarets, Jacques Demy, Le Rose et le Noir (The Pink And The Black), which chronicles his career from his first film to his last, and contains remarkable interviews with Demy over the years as well as terrific behind the scenes footage from all his films, including of course The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, one of the true treasures of French cinema and one of the most unusual films ever made since every single line was sung rather than spoken.
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