Le Mercredi Français – E Mërkura Franceze
With the Embassy of France in Albania and in the frames of the Mercredi Français (French Wednesday), now every Wednesday, screening a Jacques Demy’s film:
Screening on the 30th of March 2011 – 19:00 – Free Entrance
‘Les Parapluies de Cherbourg’ (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
by Jacques Demy
91 min – 1964 – Musical – Romance - (with English subtitles)
with Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon…
Geneviève, 17, lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She and Guy, a twenty-year- old auto mechanic, are secretly in love and want to marry, but when she reveals this to her mother, her mother objects on the grounds that Geneviève is too young and Guy is not mature or well-established enough, particularly since he has not yet done his required military service. Shortly after this, Guy is drafted to serve in the war in Algeria. Before he leaves, he and Geneviève consummate their love for each other, which results in her becoming pregnant. While Guy is away they drift apart, and Geneviève, strongly encouraged by her mother, accepts a marriage proposal from a well-to-do gem dealer named Roland Cassard, who has fallen in love with her at first sight and has promised to bring up her child as his own. Guy is wounded and is discharged before his two-year term is up…
Among others, the film won Le Prix Louis-Delluc in 1963, and the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 1964.
Entrée Libre – Hyrja e Lire – Free Entrance – Eintritt Frei – Entrada Libre
