"Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" are presented at the Théâtre du Châtelet under the direction of Michel Legrand for this adaptation of Jacques Demy’s film with Nathalie Dessay and Marie Oppert on stage taking the roles of Anne Vernon and Catherine Deneuve. Excerpts from the show. Reaction of Marie Oppert: "a dream come true" then spectators after the show.
Remo FORLANI praises Jacques DEMY’s film in his own way: It is wonderful to have succeeded in a musical thanks to the music of Michel LEGRAND, "gnangnan", but formidable because we cannot forget it. Catherine DENEUVE, "incapable" in the fields of musical comedy, " does absolutely nothing" in this film: "She is behind a counter" and moreover she is dubbed for singing scenes.
Last rehearsals of the musical "Les parapluies de Cherbourg" at the Théâtre Montparnasse, adapted from the film by Jacques DEMY. Interview with the music composer Michel Legrand lying in a chair, victim of sciatica, and the reader Jacques Demy. Excerpt from the rehearsals of the show with Bee Michelin, in the role of Geneviève, Daniel Béretta and Corinne Marchand, in the role of the mother.
Robert Kanters and Matthieu Galey give opposing opinions about the film "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg", described as a moving romance by Robert Kanters and by Matthieu Galey "a terrible novel soap opera" and a real "stupidity"
Preview presentation of Jacques DEMY’s film, "Les parapluies de Cherbourg", in New York. Interviews with Jacques DEMY, Catherine DENEUVE and Michel LEGRAND, after the screening.
Jacques Demy évoque son film "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" tourné en 1964 avec la jeune Catherine Deneuve, actrice encore débutante à l'époque, et dont la carrière a réellement démarré suite au succès phénoménal du film (notamment la Palme d'or à Cannes, et un Oscar du Meilleur film étranger à Hollywood NDD) : "Avec ce film, elle s'est mise à aimer le cinéma... Avant, elle n'y croyait peut-être pas beaucoup, elle n'était pas bien dans sa peau..."
Agnès Varda évoque sa première rencontre, savoureuse, avec la jeune Catherine Deneuve repérée à l'époque par son mari Jacques Demy pour le film "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg". Elle raconte comment la jeune actrice "enceinte jusqu'au cou", était coiffée d'une énorme "choucroute". Jacques Demy ne pouvant pas l'imaginer ainsi dans le film, Agnès Varda lui brosse les cheveux pour une photo (coiffure qu'elle gardera par la suite NDD).
Catherine DENEUVE remembers the shooting of the movie "Les parapluies de Cherbourg", which she describes as very particular. She explains that "playing everything in music gave another dimension, it was both a daily film and a very lyrical film".
Agnès VARDA is invited on stage, on the occasion of the restoration of Jacques Demy’s film "Les parapluies de Cherbourg", a cult film to rediscover according to her. Certainly not sentimental, soft and charming as one might think. A film actually very hard, very particular...
Interviewed while Jacques Demy’s film "Les parapluies de Cherbourg" has just received the Louis-Delluc award, Michel Legrand explains that he and Demy had long wanted to make a fully sung film. The interview is preceded by the announcement of the president of the jury.
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