A review of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

The 11th Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2025-26 Week 18: Demi, Demme, Demy Week Having watched my first Agnes Varda movie earlier in the Letterboxd Season Challenge, it seemed only right to pair it with my first movie by her husband, Jacques Demy. Now I want to see more movies by each of them, having been thoroughly won over. Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a charming movie about passion and pain on a small scale, with no real villains and plenty of heartache. It's warm, it's touching, and it doesn't settle for easy answers, letting unfinished business hang in the air as something