... you can learn from:
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Madame Emery: Where were you?Geneviève: With Guy.Madame Emery: What were you doing?Geneviève: Mother, he's leaving. He'll be awayfor two years. I can't live without him. I'll die.Madame Emery: Stop crying. Look at me.People only die of love in movies.
Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, one of the greatest and most beautiful and bittersweet romances ever made and my favorite movie musical by leaps and bounds, has been released by Criterion on luscious candy-colored 4K blu-ray today! No movie deserves the 4K treatment more -- even though I re-watched it just a few months ago I can't wait to toss this disc in and behold it in this new four-kay luxuriousness. What a movie! (As an aside it's pouring rain right now here in NYC today and I've got my soaking wet umbrella laying beside my desk, bright red and popped open to dry, so I feel as if the movie is stepping off the screen and saying hello in the real world. What a movie.)
