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La La Land (2016)
Directed by Damien Chazelle
influenced by The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), Lola (1961), Model Shop (1969)
Themes Visuals
As their fortunes start to seesaw, the film acquires some of the stormy turbulence of “A Star Is Born,” as well as glimmers of the doubt and disconnection of “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.”
It pays homage to musicals like “Singin’ in the Rain” and Jacques Demy's “ The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ” without every directly mimicking them.
In films like 1964's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and 1967's The Young Girls of Rochefort, he fused the fancifulness of old Hollywood song-and-dance productions with the soul-searing emotions brought on by broken hearts and dreams too big to bear fruit.
So, too, the lush, lushly colored The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort, by French movie musical man Jacques Demy.
With unmistakable shades of Jacques Demy's "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "The Young Girls of Rochefort" written into its DNA, "La La Land" imagines a reality where singing and dancing is as natural as breathing.
Not everyone loves musicals, though, and La La Land won't seduce anyone who thinks The Sound of Music is grotesquely corny, or that The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is some dusty old foreign film where nothing much happens.
Barbie deliriously draws inspiration from a wide range of cinematic sources, with references to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg , Groundhog Day , The Matrix , Toy Story , and, most hilariously, The Godfather .
If one threw Playtime , The Umbrellas of Cherbourg , Singin’ in the Rain , Sabrina , Young Frankenstein , and Josie and the Pussycats into a blender and poured the contents into a glass, it’s likely that the pink-colored concoction would look a lot like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie .
Fifty years old this spring (it won the Palme d'Or at the 1964 Cannes festival) and wearing well, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is inspired as much by René Clair's innovative French classic of 1930, Sous les toits de Paris , and the prewar Pagnol Marseilles trilogy ( Marius / Fanny / César ) as by Hollywood.
Unfortunately, James Cameron's soggy romance ranks right up there with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg when compared to the sparkless, vapid dynamics going on among these three romantic misfires.
In 1969 alone, three major European directors made movies in the American West: Jacques Demy made Model Shop, Agnes Varda made Lions Love, and Michelangelo Antonioni made Zabriskie Point.
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Directed by Stanley Donen
influenced The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Music
It came down harder in "Singin' in the Rain."
That’s right, there’s no periodic stopping and breaking into song, à la “Singin’ in the Rain,” every single “oui” and “non” and all the words in between are sung as if this were some kind of cockeyed opera.
It came down harder in "Singin' in the Rain."Likewise, the music, while melodic, tends to monotony.
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
influenced by Model Shop (1969)
Robert Kennedy’s assassination is discussed briefly in one of the countless radio broadcasts we hear snippets of (shades of Demy’s Model Shop , the best film that can ever be made about Los Angeles in 1969), and the culture clash between Rick and Cliff’s generation and the hippies who linger on the sidewalks is felt in the periphery.
Working with cinematographer David M. Mullen to resurrect the diffuse and gauzy look of vaguely sinister fare like Jacques Demy’s “Donkey Skin,” Biller melds old techniques with a modern perspective, conjuring a world that feels lost in time and completely true to itself.
After stumbling a bit with his fifth film, Model Shop, Demy regained his footing with 1970’s Donkey Skin, a cool, shimmering version of a classic French fairy tale by Cinderella author Charles Perrault.
It was directed by the French New Wave legend Jacques Demy in 1970 and is based on a 17th-century tale by Charles Perrault ; it's one of his original Mother Goose stories, which also include " Cinderella " and "Sleeping Beauty."
Born in Germany, Ophuls worked in five countries over the course of his 25-year career -- most successfully in the U.S. with Letter from an Unknown Woman and in France with La Ronde, Le Plaisir, The Earrings of Madame de... and his final film, Lola Montes.
This unique approach almost feels inspired by Jacques Demy’s Donkey Skin (1970), another film with extravagant, colorful costumes and production design that feels like a period piece but with brief flashes of modernity.
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
Directed by Marc Webb
influenced by The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Themes
The result is a film that has the same light yet bittersweet tone of Jacque Demy’s 60s French musical romances – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort – but it feels very contemporary.
The result is a film that has the same light yet bittersweet tone of Jacque Demy’s 60s French musical romances – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort – but it feels very contemporary.
Speed Racer (2008)
Directed by Lana Wachowski
influenced by The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Visuals
Its cities shine like Lucas-scapes frosted by Willy Wonka; its Day-Glo costumes and interiors make The Umbrellas of Cherbourg look drab by comparison.
More contemporaneous to Band of Outsiders, Godard owes as much, in terms of texture and tone, to Jacques Demy's Lola.
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Directed by Edgar Wright
influenced by The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Visuals
Anya Taylor-Joy and Matt Smith pop into frame like fantasies out of some technicolor romance like “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” complete with dance numbers.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Directed by Blake Edwards
influenced The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Themes
Subtly borrowing from the sorrow-tinged blend of lighthearted romance and the darker drama of adult conditions seen in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” the themes of future prospects versus childish ideals and the interfering nature of fate correspond with Elise’s claims that happiness makes her sad (or Madame Emery’s insistence that people only die of love in the movies).
Stunningly shot by regular Godard collaborator Raoul Coutard (who also worked on Demy’s Lola and Truffaut’s Jules et Jim ), this apparent idyll is rendered suffocatingly sad by Georges Delerue’s iconic ‘Theme de Camille’, which was later pinched by Scorsese for Casino .
West Side Story (1961)
Directed by Jerome Robbins
influenced The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Themes
The first of the story's three segments (though it runs some good deal longer than one-third) presents one of the most sympathetic, sentimentally gooey teenage romances ever, infinitely more compelling than in all of the teenybopper exploitation fare from then till now, trouncing the then-new musical West Side Story into oblivion.