The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the film which launched Catherine Deneuve to stardom, is coming to 4K Blu-ray in June as part of the Criterion Collection.
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Deneuve plays Geneviève, an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter who has fallen for handsome garage mechanic Guy, played by Nino Castelnuovo. But the two lovers find themselves separated when Guy is shipped off to fight in Algeria.
Hailing from director Jacques Demy and featuring a story told entirely through songs by composer Michel Legrand, multi-award nominated and winning film is widely considered one of the best movie musicals of all time.
Special Features include:
- 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
- An essay by critic Jim Ridley