It has been a big week for beloved musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the 1964 Palme d’Or and went on to international acclaim and five Oscar nominations and served as one of the key inspirations for Damien Chazelle’s La La Land. The film got a special 60th anniversary Cannes Classics screening Thursday of the exquisitely new restoration at the Agnes Varda Theatre, which is named after the late director and is also wife of late Cherbourg writer-director Jacques Demy . This week also has seen the world premieres of two documentaries related to the film here.
On Saturday night at the Buñuel Theatre in the Palais came the premiere of Once Upon a Time: Michel Legrand , an extensive two-hour documentary on the late great composer of Cherbourg and so much more. Related Stories Reviews Cannes Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews Culture Cannes Film Festival Photos Day 10: Lily Gladstone, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Greta Gerwig, ‘Beating Hearts’ Premiere, Cher & Demi Moore at amfAR Then on Wednesday night, also at the Buñuel, was the unveiling of a documentary directed by Florence Platarets, Jacques Demy, Le Rose et le Noir (The Pink and the Black) , which chronicles his career from his first film to his last and contains remarkable interviews with Demy over the years as well as terrific behind-the-scenes footage from all his films, including of course The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, one of the true treasures of French ci.
