The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1964 · Movies · 1h 33m · Drama, Romance

bittersweet

The couple does not last

Miscarriage or stillbirth

How it ends

Geneviève marries another man, and she and Guy have a brief, polite reunion years later.

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Overview

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.