The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 4K UHD

Release Year: 1964

Runtime: 93 min

Director: Jacques Demy

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Mireille Perrey, Marc Michel

Studios: Parc Film, Madeleine Films, Beta Film

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

Special Features:

4K UHD + Blu-ray Special Edition Features

New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by Ciné-Tamaris and approved by Mathieu Demy, director Jacques Demy's son, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack • Alternate uncompressed monaural soundtrack • One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features • Once Upon a Time . . . The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a 2008 documentary • Interview with film scholar Rodney Hill • French television interview from 1964 featuring Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand discussing the film • Archival audio interviews with Legrand and actor Catherine Deneuve at the National Film Theatre in London • Demonstration of the 2013 restoration • Trailer • Plus: An essay by critic Jim Ridley

Technical Specifications:

• 92 MINUTES
• COLOR
• 5.0 SURROUND
• IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
• 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO