Beautiful umbrella-store clerk Genevieve (a 20-year-old Catherine Deneuve) and charming gas station mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo) fall in love in the rainy town of Cherbourg. But their romance is cut short when Guy is drafted to fight in the war in Algeria. Set in a candy-colored dream world, with every word of dialogue sung to Michel Legrand's memorably tuneful score, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is exuberant, enchanting and unbearably poignant.
