The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 4K 1964

This is the first movie that has generated such a strong contradiction between the reviews of others and my own impression that it compelled me to write a review)

'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' is beautiful aesthetically. The women and the men, the interiors and the scenery - everything here is as beautiful as old French postcards.

Not to mention the music, which is not just beautiful, but divinely beautiful. It's worth watching for its own sake, it says much more about love and life than all the words and tears of the characters.

There are also a couple of brilliantly funny dialogs and excellent acting. This is where the movie's virtues end. And although they certainly outweigh the one and only drawback, it is impossible not to talk about it. This movie is not about love, damn it, it's not about love.

The music is about love, the words are about love, but the story isn't. The story is about the absence of love. About how love passes, how feelings change, how life flows, and there are no memories of former passions.

You can hang me or shoot me, but a woman who loves and bears the child of the man she loves would not do what Geneviève did. Guy is alive and well, and should be back in a miserable year, and he agrees to marry another man just like that. They were not in poverty, they were not starving, they were not suffering from shame-there was not a single reason that would justify such an act and make it a self-sacrifice.

It was the act of a woman who had fallen out of love. Perhaps she insinuated to herself that since he did not write, it means that he had forgotten her, and decided not to suffer in vain. Perhaps she just did not want to endure a long separation, and succumbed to the temptation to be surrounded by love and care right now. Doesn't change the point.

And he loved, and waited, and suffered, and got over it. Without finding her, he suffered a fall, but he was able to get back on his feet and get back to life and find a new love - a true, committed one. And in my opinion, he happily avoided tying his fate to a woman capable of such incredible betrayal.

Their final meeting is a brilliantly filmed and brilliantly acted reaffirmation of the old wisdom that no one can get farther than the person who was once closest. Strangers, nothing more. The kind of people lovers become after a breakup.

In short, in every way a striking story) First of all, why, well, why does everyone weep so much, and see here the story of eternal love, broken by cruel circumstances, but not killed? I saw something opposite - everyday, ordinary, familiar to everyone. A kind of 'been and gone'.