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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #448
- IMDb #637
- Rotten Tomatoes #350
- Metacritic #328
- Letterboxd #308
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #212
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #931
- Metacritic Audience #560
- Criticker #310
- Douban #968
- Kinopoisk #969
- AlloCiné #1790
- Trakt #1140
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 68, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97. Critics average 92, everyone else 79.
See the most agreed on films →A young woman works in her mother's umbrella shop in the French port city of Cherbourg. She is deeply in love with a mechanic, and they plan to marry. When he is drafted to fight in the Algerian War, they are separated. She discovers she is pregnant and must navigate life without him, facing pressure from her mother to marry a wealthy jeweler who can provide for her and her child.
Details
- Director
- Jacques Demy
- Writer
- Jacques Demy
- Studio
- Parc Film, Madeleine Films, Beta Film
- Released
- 19 February 1964
- Country
- France, Germany
- Language
- French, English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $200.0K
- Box office
- $7.6M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 8 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 8 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Palme d'Or 1964 | Palme d'Or | Winner | |
| 38th Academy Awards 1966 | Best Original Score | Jacques Demy | Nominee |
| 38th Academy Awards 1966 | Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment | Michel Legrand | Nominee |
| 38th Academy Awards 1966 | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Jacques Demy | Nominee |
| 38th Academy Awards 1966 | Best Original Score | Michel Legrand | Nominee |
| 37th Academy Awards 1965 | Best International Feature Film | Nominee | |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1965 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | France | Nominee |
| Louis Delluc Prize 1963 | Louis Delluc Prize | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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8 awards — The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
×| Palme d'Or | Winner |
| Best Original Score | Jacques Demy | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Michel Legrand | Nominee |
| Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment | Michel Legrand | Nominee |
| Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Jacques Demy | Nominee |
| Best International Feature Film | Nominee |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | France | Nominee |
| Louis Delluc Prize | Winner |