Directed by: Jacques Demy
Staring: Catherine Deneuve & Nino Castelnuovo
It is a curious film in which all the words in it are sung, and an unashamedly artificial film, with the cinematography’s strikingly colourful vibrant hues, such that it looks like no other film before it. Yet it is strongly attached to the real world of the coastal town which gives it its name. It features a romance between Genevieve who works in an umbrella shop and car mechanic Guy, with the backdrop of the Algerian war. It is unexpectedly sad and wise, a bittersweet reflection on the way true love sometimes does not (and perhaps should not) conquer all. One of the most revered and unorthodox film musicals of all time.