Late Afternoon with French Tapes | Les parapluies de Cherbourg

Wednesday , 08 de November 2023 - 17:00

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Fitas Francesas Les parapluies de Cherbourg

The "Late Afternoon with French Tapes" cycle will have the last screening on November 8, with the musical comedy "Les parapluies de Cherbourg", starting at 5:00 pm in room 141.

The movie from 1964 by Jacques Demy was the winner of a Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Synopsis:
Cherbourg, 1957.
Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo) is a 20-year-old who has been brought up by his godmother and works as a car mechanic.He is in love with Geneviève Emery (Catherine Deneuve), a 17-year-old teenager who helps her widowed mother in the family business, an elegant but unprofitable umbrella shop.Geneviève loves him too, but her mother thinks she's too young to marry and doesn't see how Guy can maintain a family. He is called up for military service and she discovers she is pregnant. The dilemma arises: wait for her beloved to return or move on?

Version: original with English and Spanish subtitles