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Foreign: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Avalon is screening tonight, for one night only, this classic musical by Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand. Both bittersweet and endlessly charming, the film features the always enchanting Catherine Deneuve as an umbrella saleswoman in love with the local auto mechanic. Nothing works out the way anyone wants it to, yet everything seems exactly as it should be in the end. Instead of periodic musical numbers popping up amid dialog, the entire film is sung through, a novel approach to the movie musical that suited Legrand’s formidable skills as a composer of film music. Umbrellas is essential viewing, a must for both hopeless romantics and film buffs.
Tonight only at the Avalon Theatre.
