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1964 Palme d’Or Winner ‘The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg’ Celebrates 60th In Cannes With Special Screening And 2 New Documentaries – Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of 'The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg' at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the Palme d'Or in 1964
On Saturday night at the Bunuel Theatre in the Palais came the premiere of Once Upon A Time: Michel Legrand, an extensive two hour documentary on the late great composer of Cherbourg and so much more. It is very interesting to note that the storyline still has resonance 60 years later as one of the Cannes Film Festival premieres tonight, Gilles Lelouche’s Beating Hearts has a similar, although edgier, Romeo And Juliet – style plotline with two young people in love, separated, then brought back together in a bittersweet reunion. It was not only nominated for the 1964 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar (it lost to Italy’s Yesterday Today & Tomorrow), but also the next year as well when it qualified for other categories and was up for 4 Oscars including Best Song “I Will Wait For You”, Best Adapted Musical Score, Best Original Music Score, and Best Original Screenplay, still the only screenplay that was all sung ever to get an Academy Award nomination in a writing category.
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