After checking the Chinese translation, I found out that the film was translated into "Autumn Water Yiren" at that time. It tells the love story of a girl in an umbrella shop in Cherbourg, a small seaside town in France. The small town of Cherbourg has wet slate and snow, if it were me, I would translate it into "The Umbrella of Cherbourg" [;-D]
Let’s talk about the Yiren first. If you have been overwhelmed by the graceful and mature beauty of Catherine Deneuve, the owner of the Oak Manor in "Indochina" and the theater hostess in "The Last Subway," then you will definitely be tempted to imagine What kind of face and mood this movie goddess known as "the last gorgeousness of France" would look like when he was young.
Deneuve at that time was not like in "Indochina", holding a riding whip, wearing a shirt and boots, standing in the early morning oak forest, firmly and calmly; unlike in "The Last Subway", wearing a red dress , Graceful and noble, radiant. So when we first saw her looking out at her boyfriend through the glass window in the play, we both couldn't help laughing in disbelief. The goddess also had such a young age:) This is Deneuve's famous movie. She was just 20 years old, her eyes wide open, like a deer, playful and smart, and unknown. At the same time, it was embedded in this DVD, and there was an interview twenty years later. In the interview, Deneuve was already calm and rational. If youth is the most primitive beauty, it must be wisdom that made this girl a charming woman. It was time for her to precipitate another beauty of temperament, which was also loved by the director. Truffaut once said, "When filming "The Last Subway", I wanted to achieve three long-standing dreams: to bring the camera to the backstage of the theater, to create the atmosphere of the Occupied Period, and to have Catherine Deneuve play a role. Responsible woman. ". The director of this film, Jacques Demi, has since successively filmed "Liu Meiqianjiao" and "Donkey Skin" for her, recording her beautiful images. The most interesting is "Indochina", a young director who admired her, studied all her films, tailored this image for her, and earned her the title of best actress for this film. It can be said that the country is overwhelming, and the elegance is peerless.
If the original intention of watching the film was to look at Deneuve when he was young with a fan mentality, then this old movie itself will never disappoint. In a small town on the French Riviera, the boy pushes the bicycle to send the girl home. The stone roads and alleys have the peaceful fragrance of the night; a small umbrella shop run by a mother and daughter, the carnival parade is always bustling through the glass windows; It started to snow, and the snowflakes made people feel full, and longing for a long time. The whole movie is a fresh little song. The story is also very simple: the seventeen-year-old girl in the umbrella shop and the twenty-year-old boy in the car repair shop fell in love with each other and promised a lifetime. The boy went for military service, the girl was pregnant with his child, and fell in love with each other. With the help of her mother, the girl married another jewelry merchant who was pregnant with her and left the town. After returning from the army, the boy was discouraged and eventually married another girl who had been taking care of his grandmother and started a new life. Many years later, the boy has become the owner of a gas station, living happily with his wife and son. One snowy night, the first love girlfriend has been in a high bun, drove back to the hometown, took her little daughter through the gas station, and the two met again. I said hello calmly, and learned that each other gave the children Francois and Francois, the names they had agreed upon back then. Waved goodbye, she drove away, he hugged his wife and son who had just returned home, and welcomed them into the house. The snow keeps falling, and the camera is looking down from the sky, the gorgeous music gradually climaxes, and the play ends. This feeling can be regarded as a remembrance, but at that time it was lost. Since youth is destined to have regrets, then the choice of happiness along the way will have no regrets and no regrets, just like the snowflakes that have floated and fallen from year to year, only the warmth in the palm of your hand , The most true.
The best thing is actually the director's use of color. I can see that his intention and incisiveness with color. As two female spectators of nymphomaniacs, the one thing N and I marveled at from beginning to end is Deneuve's clothes! The style of the 1950s and 1960s is really a classic, dignified and feminine. Her coats, sweaters, dresses, and even maternity clothes are very cute. Her mother's suit, hat and shawl still look elegant and generous. The most wonderful thing is that every piece of clothing, the color is used to the ultimate beauty, the girl's sky blue pink orange yellow, bright and beautiful, let you feast your eyes. Then there is music. Jacques and De Mei later made a lot of song and dance films, and this one is a groundbreaking film. There was no dialogue from beginning to end, and the music was never interrupted in the operetta's vocal dialogue. If you can understand French, it will be more interesting. These tunes were later sung throughout the streets of France and became classics sung by a whole generation of French. In a DVD interview on the street, an adult woman looked up and recalled that I was eight years old, and I entered the cinema for the first time and watched the first movie. Everything was so perfect. When I walked out of the theater, everyone They can't help but sing the songs in it. There are also a family of five people who sang the classic verses together to the interview camera, familiar with them, intoxicated and affectionate. It turned out that this movie had so profoundly affected a generation and became their sweet memory.
In 1964, the Cannes Film Festival awarded the Palme d'Or to this romantic love music film. All the comments gave it lavish words without hesitation. Said it is beautiful, romantic, sweet, sentimental...
So, I recommend this small and exquisite "Umbrella of Cherub" for everyone to share.
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