Les Parapluies de Cherbourg: Suggested Resources

Films

Two films by Jacques Demy which form a trilogy around Les Parapluies:

Lola (Demy, 1961)

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Demy, 1967)

Further Reading

Jean-Pierre Berthomé, Jacques Demy et les racines du rêve, 2nd

edn (Nantes:

L’Atalante, 1996)

Rodney Hill, ‘The New Wave meets the Tradition of Quality:Jacques Demy’s “The

Umbrellas of Cherbourg”’, Cinema Journal, 48:1 (2008), 27-50

Laurent Jullier, Abécédaire des Parapluies de Cherbourg (Archimbaud: Editions de

l’Amandier, 2007)

Camille Taboulay, Le Cinéma enchanté de Jacques Demy (Paris: Cahiers du

cinéma, 1996)

Philip French, ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’, The Observer, Sunday 9 February

2014: www.theguardian.com/film/2014 /feb/09/umbrellas-of-cherbourg-classic-dvd-

philip-french

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