Jacques Demy's Parapluies de Cherbourg is the most heart-breaking melodrama French cinema has ever produced and one of the most audacious musical film ever made as the whole lines are sung! There is no talking part at all in that movie, which sometimes rebukes people but you will easily succumb to Michel Legrand's enchanting music. The film is also worth seeing for the pop colours and the carefully framing of the mise en scène, as well as for the performance of young Catherine Deneuve (who does not sing however - she's dubbed). This is the epitome of Demy's bitter-sweet style (tragedy in bright colours).
Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
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