The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Why this pick
Like Godard’s playful musical romanticism, it turns everyday lovers’ quarrels into boldly stylized cinema, with heightened color, pop artifice, and sincere feeling beneath the formal games.
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Why this pick
Like Godard’s playful musical romanticism, it turns everyday lovers’ quarrels into boldly stylized cinema, with heightened color, pop artifice, and sincere feeling beneath the formal games.
Why this pick
A graceful French New Wave cousin: chance encounters, longing, and romantic indecision unfold in an airy, self-aware world that balances melancholy with light-footed charm.
Why this pick
Its candy-colored musical surface and intricate romantic pairings echo the exuberant genre play of A Woman Is a Woman, while sustaining an unusually tender belief in chance and desire.
Why this pick
Godard again pairs lovers with pop-color compositions, abrupt tonal shifts, and mischievous cinematic references; it is more volatile, but shares the earlier film’s flirtatious formal freedom.
Why this pick
A poised, visually playful New Wave portrait of a woman moving through Paris, combining fashionable surfaces, direct cinematic invention, and a gradually deepening emotional perspective.
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01 / THE STORY
A superifical woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Angela

Alfred Lubitsch

Émile Récamier

Angela's friend

La femme du bar

le premier faux aveugle