From the Sight and Sound archive
“A glimpse of perfection in an imperfect world”: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg reviewed in February 1965
Jacques Demy’s ineffable coastal-town musical mixes sweetness and sting, dreams and life, as our reviewer Elizabeth Sussex wrote in the 1965 Monthly Film Bulletin.
By Elizabeth Sussex
“A glimpse of perfection in an imperfect world”: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg reviewed in February 1965