There were so many moving moments in “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” that it was difficult to choose just one shot. I settled on the shot of Madame Emery, Genevieve’s mother, shopping for a wedding dress and veil for Genevieve. She is surrounded by many manikins, all modeling veils and dresses. As she walks past the manikins, examining them, she suddenly comes upon Genevieve, who is also wearing a veil. This shot moved me because Genevieve blends in with the manikins. It is not only her doll-like, porcelain complexion, but Genevieve appears to be lifeless. Most women, when shopping for their wedding gown, are ecstatic and glowing with joy, yet, Genevieve is the opposite. She wears a solemn expression upon her face, without the slightest smile. We know that she is still pining for Guy and that she doesn’t truly love Cassard. She is marrying him because she is scared of ending up alone. There is no passion in their relationship, and I felt that this shot of her wearing the veil captured this very well, and also set up her emotions for the wedding scene to follow.
The shot that moved me was when the young lovers were going to his apartment after he was drafted. The were shown in a medium shot, gliding along the shopfronts. In a musical where every piece of dialogue was sung, there was a conspicuous absence of dance. This was as close as it came.
It seemed that this involuntary movement was designed to absolve them of responsiblity for the situation they are about to find themselves in, the choices they are about to make, and the consequences of those actions. How can the audience judge them? The wind just... blew them that way.
The singing also seemed designed to protect the characters, to remove them from the 'real world'. Genvieve and Foucher (whose names in French are suggestive) become Romeo and Juliet, rather than two young people who put the cart before the horse in a way that would invite more criticism than sympathy in the real world.
The shot that moved me in 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' is the scene where Genevieve and Roland are leaving the church after getting married. In contrast to wedding scenes in most movies this one is quite sombre. The music is very menacing and the newlyweds do not seem to be able to muster up much emotion. As they walk down the stairs and into the car the camera zooms out and when the car drives off the camera then moves to the concerned face of Madeleine. What also adds to this shot is the lack of dialogue(singing) which gives the rest of the film a sense of fairy-tale like charm.
I liked this movie even though I thought it was very strange. There were a number of shots that were interesting, the opening umbrella sequence or where they float down the street for example. However the one that moved me the most was right after Roland has come home from the army to find out Genvieve is no longer his. He's wandering the streets with his pension and he goes back to the cafe where they sat and consoled each other over the fact that he was leaving.
The specific shot follows the one when he is in that cafe and as he stares right past the camera. We cut to a 4 or 5 second shot of two empty red chairs in the corner. In that shot you could almost see them together, it conjoured up the image of them holding each other close. He's obviously reminiscing and in so much pain. I thought the shot was simple, evokes sorrow for their relationship and helps the audience really understand what Roland is feeling.
The visuals in this film drew me in from the very beginning. I loved how the camera tilts down from the marina to the street, where we then get a shot from such a high angle that it appears as if we are looking straight down onto the road. The rain pours down onto the people below. I loved how the things in this shot matched others. Like the man with the yellow coat riding a yellow bike directly on a yellow line. I thought it was a clever introduction and gives a preview of the brightness and colors of this film.
Another shot I liked was when Guy and Genevieve were in the cafe after he tells her he is leaving. The shot is taken at eye level, and it zooms in from a normal medium shot to a close up . The drinks they have in front of them are colorful, and the wall behind them is bright yellow. There actions are reflected in the mirror hanging behind them. She is explaining to him that she'll do anything for him to stay. The camera then pans to just his face and he says that he must go. The camera pans to just her face and we can see how upset she is. Then the camera zooms back out to a two-shot.
The Shot that moved me in Jacques Demy's "The umbrellas of Cherbourg" Was the end (as well as a shot near the end), When Genevieve pulls up to the gas station where she knows Guy worked. She knew he always spoke of wanting to buy a gas station. I just loved the look on her face being so "surprised" by this, when a few seconds earlier she was touching her make up in the mirror quickly. I just think it was a little predictable. Though sadly I do agree with a few of the others, I was not a fan of this movie. It seemed to be a long road with a dead end. The colors were great and some of the scenery; sadly that was really all for me.
My favorite shot in Jacques Demy's "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" is the shot of when Guy leaves on the train. It is a continuous, extreme long shot, with many stylistic attributes to it. First, the camera begins as a medium long shot of Guy and Genevieve walking along the deck towards the train. Next, Guy jumps onto the train and the camera continues moving backwards but it pans to the left slightly to accommodate for Guy in the foreground on the far left of the frame, hanging outside of the train. After some time, the train exits the frame entirely in the bottom left and the camera movement stops, emphasizing Genevieve's sorrow such that time has stopped for her because her love has left for war. She walks up towards the coffee shop and a train conductor walks into the frame from the bottom right. The slow, lithe camera movement, to me, does not emphasize the sorrow and despair that Genevieve must be feeling at this point in time.
In "The Umbrella's of Cherbourg", there is a tremendous amount of beautiful, vibrant colours which keeps the film very "alive" because it is so visually appealing. One of my favorite shots is so because of the beautiful colours used in it. It's the shot that contains the captions "Avril 1958" in white font in the bottom center of the screen. The camera is pointed straight up at the sky and is moving fast, meanwhile passing trees with beautiful pink buds. This shot comes right after the scene where Genevieve is talking about Guy's absence and how lonely and afraid she is without him. The scene ends with a close-up of Genevieve saying, "Why aren't a dead?". Right after she says that, the shot cuts in representing spring time and a new beginning and new life, symbolizing Genevieve’s new beginning and new life with Cassard. Right after this shot, Cassard and Genevieve are walking together and he tells her they will bring the baby up together.
I was very skeptical of this movie not only because it’s a musical, but it’s a musical not even in English! All things considered, I really did enjoy this movie.
The shot that moved me was at the end of the movie, when Genevieve and Guy are talking in the office. Genevieve and Guy are looking at each other but keep avoiding eye contact, The camera is set at an eye level, medium short shot, showing both of them facing each other, while we can see their daughter in the background right in the middle of them. This scene shows how they have moved on with their life and have nothing to say to each other. They keep cold tones and their faces show no expressions at all. Their clothing also shows their social differences, Guy is wearing working clothes and Genevieve wears a fur coat. This scene is very sad with very muted colors compared to the colorful scenes from when they were still in love.
This is my favourite film in the class thus far. The shot that stood out the most for me took place when Guy was boarding the train and leaving Genevieve for Algeria. The camera moves backwards as the train pulls forward, leaving Genevieve alone in the background of the shot. She becomes a smaller object in the frame perhaps a reference to that Genevieve will obviously play a smaller role in his life due to his absence. The colours in not only the shot but the entire scene differ from the rest of the move save the conclusion. Nearly all of the previous scenes in the movie are filled a wide colour palette; red, blue, green and yellow. There is vibrancy to the movie even though a lot of it takes place at night. During Guy’s departure however the frame is filled with shades of grey, indicating the bleakness of the lover’s current situation.
The shot that moved me in the film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was when Guy and Genevieve were walking along the train station. Throughout the movie there were many eye pleasing shots, but in this shot the colors used were quite dull. The building of the train station was a bland white paint and the train as it pulled out from the station was a dull black. As the camera slowly moved away from Genevieve, there was another train which was coated in somewhat like an orange and yellow paint. The orange and yellow train reminded me of Genevieve, becoming alone and torn away from Guy. I thought this shot effective because the only bright colors directed my attention to that one train, while the other trains were coated in a darker color.
The one shot that really jumped out at me from "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" was the shot when Guy is leaving to go do his military service. The shot follows them out of the cafe at the train station and begins to dolly backwards as Guy walks with Genvieve and then hops on the train and slowly pulls away. The shot keeps going until Genevieve is just a small person on the screen symbolizing how lost she is without Guy. The shot is coloured and shot perfectly to show desperation and loss.
The shot that moved me was the shot of Guy and Genevieve moving down the alley way. This shot took place the night before Guy was leaving to finish his military service. Guy and Genevieve seemed to be standing still yet the alley way was moving past them. To me this expressed a halt in there relationship. It foreshadowed the end of 'them'. Mean while the rest of life continues on. Andrew Kleysen
The shot that moved me for this movie was the opening shot. This shot was probably the longest shot in the entire movie. The shot began with a fog horn blowing signifying the beginning of the movie, then the music commenced. After the music started the camera tilted downwards looking directly downwards on the people walking past. As the people are walking in the rain they move across the screen matching the credits of the film. As I was watching this shot, the camera for me resembeled rain, in the beginning it was overlooking the town similar to a raindrop in the clouds, and then as the camera tilted downwards the rain began to fall.
The shot that moved me the most wat when Guy was telling Genevieve that he just got his noticed to go into the army and he was hugging her and in the other hand he was holding his bike, and all of the suddune they were walking but they werent it was something that was just moving them.I couldn't see Guy move the bike and I did not see them move there feet at all. I just thought this was amazing.
The shot that stood out to me was when Genevieve was at the wedding dress store. I don't know if anyone notice that in almost every sequence there is color palette with bright and bold patterns. For this shot Genevieve was surrounded by white wedding dress. This shot captured a distinguishing feeling. This sense of Guy and Genevieve's love has become this plain white meaningless love. Their lives together has become bank like white pages in an untold written story. This leaves questions of what if this .. etc. It built this guilt in Genevieve that it's to late to turn back and re-write. I didn't notice any bright colors or flowers that could of represented a sign of hope or perhaps something will symbolized Guy will be with Genevieve in the end. I think this shot was the end of Guy and Genevieve love and the beginning to a new love.
A shot that stood out for me in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was during dinner at Geneviève's house with her mother and Roland Cassard, as an attempt to sway Geneviève romantically towards Roland. The camera is facing the dinner table from the side; Madame Emery sitting facing the camera, with Roland to the left of the frame and Geneviève to the right of the frame, facing eachother at the table.
After Geneviève is told by her mother "You must pick a king and make a wish", Geneviève says to Roland "I have no choice. You are my king". As Madame Emery then places the crown on her daughter's head, it represents the amount of influence that she has on her daughter's decision making, since Geneviève appears to have little or no choice over her own marriage.
The shot that moved me was the one right after the scene where Guy tells Genevieve that he will be going away to military service. They are walking to Guy's apartment, passing between some lanes and the camera captures their image in a dolly shot, moving along as they slide through the streets, instead of walking. This scene moved me a lot, because it allows you to get in touch with their despair and hopelessness.
The shot that moved me would be the ending, when Genevieve pulls up to the gas station. Guy starts off in a medium shot and was about to proceed into the station but then notices he has a customer. Then the camera moves into a medium shot with Genevieve and her daughter in the car in the foreground, and Guy in the background getting the gas ready. When Guy proceeds to the window of the car, he enters the shot from the left side casting a shadow over Genevieve, and at this moment Genevieve gives a very expressional glance of surprise. Then the shot reverses to Guy’s expression over the shoulder of Genevieve from inside the car. I thought this ending was predicable. However it had the right sense of surprise of having 2people’s paths cross.
The shot that moved me the most in “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” is when Guy leaves Genevieve alone at the train station. Camera starts with a tracking shot when Genevieve and Guy are walking along the strain station. The train is going to take off, Guy puts his arm on Genevieve's shoulder and he steps on the train after the farewell. The most interesing part is the carmera moves with the train and everyone else in this shot is moving excpet Genevieve stands on the platform by herself. She stands in the middle of the frame which makes her very protruding in this shot. Camera ends with an exteme long shot of the whole train station. Guy leaves Genevieve and he also leaves sorrow with Cherbourg.
I loved all the color in this movie however my favorite shot did not have much color. The one that I enjoyed the most was when Genevieve's mother (Mme Emery) is in the wedding shop looking at the wedding dresses. The camera is on a track, I believe, as it follows alongside Mme Emery but slightly behind. This gave me the impression that the whole wedding is about the mother and what she wants. She is leading the viewer, not Genevieve. Mme Emery is smiling while looking at the dresses, which is what the bride to be should be doing, but instead Genevieve is standing with a veil on her head frowning as if she is just one of the mannequins in the store. Mme Emery is using Genevieve as a doll in her own world and making Genevieve be whatever she wants.
the shot that I enjoyed the most in "the umbrellas of cherbourg" was the one near the end,a extrme long shot of Guy at gas station, light was beautifulily landed on the gas station so as the houses on the left, it was snowing and the whole picture is full of white, with the sound track it I felt released form all pressure that i had from watching this moive.
Not a shot. But an aspect of the film I found interesting was how the film's story progressed along with the seasons. The film starts out in the spring with the beginning of Roland and Genevieve relationship. The summer shows the progressing pregnancy of Genevieve and Roland’s absence. The fall brings Genevieve decision to accept Cassard's proposal. In the winter we see Roland and Genevieve’s sad reunion.
If I had to pick one shot it would be of Genevieve’s hand during the wedding. The shot shows her hand as she puts on the wedding ring. She has some difficulty putting it on, as if the ring doesn’t fit, but finally she forces the ring down her finger. To me this shot symbolized that although this marriage was not what she wanted, but she was determined to see it through.
I too was impacted greatly by the shot of Guy leaving Genevieve to go fulfill his military service. The camera makes us feel like we are walking along with Guy and Genevieve. Just before the train starts to leave Guy climbs onto the step and hangs onto the rail as it pulls away from the station. The camera focuses in on Genevieve from the point of view of the train. We are leaving with Guy. The camera moves father and farther away from Genvieve keeping her the focus of the frame. I particularily liked this because it really made me connect with her in a sense that she was being torn away from Guy and was being left alone in the darkness.
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The shot that moved me would be the ending because the musical score was so moving and was in-synch with the scenes because the first scene in which Guy was with his family the music was all happy. However, when it came to the part he saw Genevieve again after 4 years, the sad musical background starts to play adding more drama to the scene. The funny thing about it too was the part the gas boy showed up, it suddenly changed the music as well to enlighten the dramatic scene.
The colors that the actors were wearing played a big part on that scene because Guy's family and Genevieve's daughter wore bright colored shirts in contrast to Genevieve and Guy, who work dark colors like black. They wore dark colors because they are the people who i think feel the most bittersweet in the movie.
There was also the part that they were walking towards the door and they were in between the car which her daughter was in. That shot is very significant because, the car was placed directly in the middle because as we all know that it was their daughter when they were lovers before.
I completely forgot to post this week; normally I do it immediately after class... (I should go back to this method) I'm not sure if this will count for marks, but I will give it a try, regardless:
Because of this week's topic in sound, I found myself drawn especially to those qualities in "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". Of course, being a musical, sound plays an important role.
Specifically, I found myself drawn to the self-reflexitivity of this film's music: at first, I was thrown off at how colloquial the dialogue was, and how the lack of syllabic attention/lack of rhymes/lack of poetry made the music less of music. (for example, when the men are clocking out after work and discusing how "film is better than opera because it is just filled with silly singing", they are merely setting everyday dialogue to a tune, rather than singing a song, per se...)
That scene set up the shot that moved me, which was also closer to the beginning:
Geneviève and her Mother are in the apartment - which is painted in surreal patterns and colours like their Umbrella shop. Madame Emery looks at herself and her pearls in the mirror lamenting about how she cannot sell her jewels. Geneviève sings: "Anyway, it's probably a fake".
Not only is Madame Emery looking into a mirror (reflections are but illusions, after all), but this scene intensifies the notion that the entire film is, first of all, set to music colloquially, second of all clad in surreal images and colours, and most of all a not-quit-real representation of "reality".
the shot that moved me, well there where 2 shots of the same setting. they both take place at the rail tracks on the pier. the first time was with Genevieve and Guy the second time was with Cassard. these two moments have a humongous set of mood and happiness, in both movements and song. yet in both instances it is about marriage. Genevieve was very happy in the first time they were sprawling down the rails, but in the second i wonder if she was led to that place or if she was leading Cassard there. And she must have been thinking of Guy while making her decision, the only thing i was thinking of was if they are there she will definitely say no, but i was surprised and then all i thought of was...poor Guy, for whenever he returns.
The shot that moved me was just after Guy finds out that Genevieve has just left, and he is walking down the street, looking at the shops. What struck me about this scene is that when Genevieve was still with Guy, the street was almost blinding with the intensity of it's colour, but afterwards, everything has become white. This was a huge change from the colours of the previous shots and really helped convey Guy's emotions.
There were a few shots that moved me in Jacques Demy's film, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". The fisrt shot was the opening shot in which we are given an ariel view of the people scattering the town. The shot begins peacfully and then a drop of rain falls from the side of the camera and a red umbrella pops open below us. The camera is at a medium distance from the action, giving us an overall idea of what is going on. This shot is very interesting in the way that we do not get to see to many people in the shot, just their umbrellas. This was interesting to me as I felt I could imagine the type of person underneath the umbrella due to the colour and style of it. This to me left a short of hidden dimension to the film. This shot also brings the spectator right into the centre of the films title.
Another shot which I found interesting was the shot in which Genevieve is reading one of Guy's letters as she stands in front of her bedroom mirror. This shot is interesting, one due to the technique Demy uses, reflection, and also the meaning that it gives. I liked this shot as it portrayed the situation in which Genevieve was in by reflecting the image of her enlarged stomach to the letter in which guy sent. The letter is obviously the response to the letter in which Genevieve told Guy about the baby.
The shot in which Genevieve and her mother are looking for a wedding dress was well done in the way that it used the overpowering colour white and the way the veil that covered Genevieve's face was used as a sort of sheild to her emotions.This shot was associated with the following scene of Genevieve and Cassard's wedding day. While existing the church, the couple are not surrounded by a lining of friends or family, only the mother in the back. This shot gives a sorrow understanding to the rest of the film and how things are no longer happy for Genevieve.
The vibrant colours along with the storyline made this film amazing. I loved how each room in a house was so bright and lively. The colours also helped to balance out the sad moments throughout the film.
The shot that moved me was at the beginning of the film, the long shot of Guy in the mechanic shop. He appears dressed in dirty clothes but heard singing and appearing in a jolly fashion. After fixing a mans car he is seen going to the outside of the Garage. This is followed by a medium shot of guy slowly approaching the outside and eventually having rain come down on him, with a man and woman running by, seen barely on screen but their umbrella in full view. He comes back into the shop to be asked by the boss to work on a mans mercedes who you later find out to be Cassard(A man who did not ruin his night but would soon ruin his life). A friend then takes the late night repair saving Guy from having to cancel his date. This shot is quite colorful and gave a fun introduction to what would be a quite tragic film.
The Umbrella's of Cherbourg was a quite interesting film with many cuts, it was very difficult to choose just one of them. The shot that moved me was the shot when the couple had gone to the apartement after they had found out he had been drafted. I enjoyed how every word said was actually sung and how most of the movie was shot using the medium viewed shots, long shots but very little close-ups. Overall the film, most due to the fact that the entire piece, being a musical, was sung. It was quite impressive.
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There were so many moving moments in “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” that it was difficult to choose just one shot. I settled on the shot of Madame Emery, Genevieve’s mother, shopping for a wedding dress and veil for Genevieve. She is surrounded by many manikins, all modeling veils and dresses. As she walks past the manikins, examining them, she suddenly comes upon Genevieve, who is also wearing a veil. This shot moved me because Genevieve blends in with the manikins. It is not only her doll-like, porcelain complexion, but Genevieve appears to be lifeless. Most women, when shopping for their wedding gown, are ecstatic and glowing with joy, yet, Genevieve is the opposite. She wears a solemn expression upon her face, without the slightest smile. We know that she is still pining for Guy and that she doesn’t truly love Cassard. She is marrying him because she is scared of ending up alone. There is no passion in their relationship, and I felt that this shot of her wearing the veil captured this very well, and also set up her emotions for the wedding scene to follow.
The shot that moved me was when the young lovers were going to his apartment after he was drafted. The were shown in a medium shot, gliding along the shopfronts. In a musical where every piece of dialogue was sung, there was a conspicuous absence of dance. This was as close as it came.
It seemed that this involuntary movement was designed to absolve them of responsiblity for the situation they are about to find themselves in, the choices they are about to make, and the consequences of those actions. How can the audience judge them? The wind just... blew them that way.
The singing also seemed designed to protect the characters, to remove them from the 'real world'. Genvieve and Foucher (whose names in French are suggestive) become Romeo and Juliet, rather than two young people who put the cart before the horse in a way that would invite more criticism than sympathy in the real world.
The shot that moved me in 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' is the scene where Genevieve and Roland are leaving the church after getting married. In contrast to wedding scenes in most movies this one is quite sombre. The music is very menacing and the newlyweds do not seem to be able to muster up much emotion. As they walk down the stairs and into the car the camera zooms out and when the car drives off the camera then moves to the concerned face of Madeleine. What also adds to this shot is the lack of dialogue(singing) which gives the rest of the film a sense of fairy-tale like charm.
I liked this movie even though I thought it was very strange. There were a number of shots that were interesting, the opening umbrella sequence or where they float down the street for example. However the one that moved me the most was right after Roland has come home from the army to find out Genvieve is no longer his. He's wandering the streets with his pension and he goes back to the cafe where they sat and consoled each other over the fact that he was leaving.
The specific shot follows the one when he is in that cafe and as he stares right past the camera. We cut to a 4 or 5 second shot of two empty red chairs in the corner. In that shot you could almost see them together, it conjoured up the image of them holding each other close. He's obviously reminiscing and in so much pain. I thought the shot was simple, evokes sorrow for their relationship and helps the audience really understand what Roland is feeling.
The visuals in this film drew me in from the very beginning. I loved how the camera tilts down from the marina to the street, where we then get a shot from such a high angle that it appears as if we are looking straight down onto the road. The rain pours down onto the people below. I loved how the things in this shot matched others. Like the man with the yellow coat riding a yellow bike directly on a yellow line. I thought it was a clever introduction and gives a preview of the brightness and colors of this film.
Another shot I liked was when Guy and Genevieve were in the cafe after he tells her he is leaving. The shot is taken at eye level, and it zooms in from a normal medium shot to a close up . The drinks they have in front of them are colorful, and the wall behind them is bright yellow. There actions are reflected in the mirror hanging behind them. She is explaining to him that she'll do anything for him to stay. The camera then pans to just his face and he says that he must go. The camera pans to just her face and we can see how upset she is. Then the camera zooms back out to a two-shot.
The Shot that moved me in Jacques Demy's "The umbrellas of Cherbourg" Was the end (as well as a shot near the end), When Genevieve pulls up to the gas station where she knows Guy worked. She knew he always spoke of wanting to buy a gas station. I just loved the look on her face being so "surprised" by this, when a few seconds earlier she was touching her make up in the mirror quickly. I just think it was a little predictable. Though sadly I do agree with a few of the others, I was not a fan of this movie. It seemed to be a long road with a dead end. The colors were great and some of the scenery; sadly that was really all for me.
My favorite shot in Jacques Demy's "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" is the shot of when Guy leaves on the train. It is a continuous, extreme long shot, with many stylistic attributes to it. First, the camera begins as a medium long shot of Guy and Genevieve walking along the deck towards the train. Next, Guy jumps onto the train and the camera continues moving backwards but it pans to the left slightly to accommodate for Guy in the foreground on the far left of the frame, hanging outside of the train. After some time, the train exits the frame entirely in the bottom left and the camera movement stops, emphasizing Genevieve's sorrow such that time has stopped for her because her love has left for war. She walks up towards the coffee shop and a train conductor walks into the frame from the bottom right. The slow, lithe camera movement, to me, does not emphasize the sorrow and despair that Genevieve must be feeling at this point in time.
In "The Umbrella's of Cherbourg", there is a tremendous amount of beautiful, vibrant colours which keeps the film very "alive" because it is so visually appealing. One of my favorite shots is so because of the beautiful colours used in it. It's the shot that contains the captions "Avril 1958" in white font in the bottom center of the screen. The camera is pointed straight up at the sky and is moving fast, meanwhile passing trees with beautiful pink buds. This shot comes right after the scene where Genevieve is talking about Guy's absence and how lonely and afraid she is without him. The scene ends with a close-up of Genevieve saying, "Why aren't a dead?". Right after she says that, the shot cuts in representing spring time and a new beginning and new life, symbolizing Genevieve’s new beginning and new life with Cassard. Right after this shot, Cassard and Genevieve are walking together and he tells her they will bring the baby up together.
I was very skeptical of this movie not only because it’s a musical, but it’s a musical not even in English! All things considered, I really did enjoy this movie.
The shot that moved me was at the end of the movie, when Genevieve and Guy are talking in the office. Genevieve and Guy are looking at each other but keep avoiding eye contact, The camera is set at an eye level, medium short shot, showing both of them facing each other, while we can see their daughter in the background right in the middle of them. This scene shows how they have moved on with their life and have nothing to say to each other. They keep cold tones and their faces show no expressions at all. Their clothing also shows their social differences, Guy is wearing working clothes and Genevieve wears a fur coat. This scene is very sad with very muted colors compared to the colorful scenes from when they were still in love.
This is my favourite film in the class thus far. The shot that stood out the most for me took place when Guy was boarding the train and leaving Genevieve for Algeria. The camera moves backwards as the train pulls forward, leaving Genevieve alone in the background of the shot. She becomes a smaller object in the frame perhaps a reference to that Genevieve will obviously play a smaller role in his life due to his absence. The colours in not only the shot but the entire scene differ from the rest of the move save the conclusion. Nearly all of the previous scenes in the movie are filled a wide colour palette; red, blue, green and yellow. There is vibrancy to the movie even though a lot of it takes place at night. During Guy’s departure however the frame is filled with shades of grey, indicating the bleakness of the lover’s current situation.
The shot that moved me in the film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was when Guy and Genevieve were walking along the train station. Throughout the movie there were many eye pleasing shots, but in this shot the colors used were quite dull. The building of the train station was a bland white paint and the train as it pulled out from the station was a dull black. As the camera slowly moved away from Genevieve, there was another train which was coated in somewhat like an orange and yellow paint. The orange and yellow train reminded me of Genevieve, becoming alone and torn away from Guy. I thought this shot effective because the only bright colors directed my attention to that one train, while the other trains were coated in a darker color.
The one shot that really jumped out at me from "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" was the shot when Guy is leaving to go do his military service. The shot follows them out of the cafe at the train station and begins to dolly backwards as Guy walks with Genvieve and then hops on the train and slowly pulls away. The shot keeps going until Genevieve is just a small person on the screen symbolizing how lost she is without Guy. The shot is coloured and shot perfectly to show desperation and loss.
The shot that moved me was the shot of Guy and Genevieve moving down the alley way. This shot took place the night before Guy was leaving to finish his military service. Guy and Genevieve seemed to be standing still yet the alley way was moving past them. To me this expressed a halt in there relationship. It foreshadowed the end of 'them'. Mean while the rest of life continues on.
Andrew Kleysen
The shot that moved me for this movie was the opening shot. This shot was probably the longest shot in the entire movie. The shot began with a fog horn blowing signifying the beginning of the movie, then the music commenced. After the music started the camera tilted downwards looking directly downwards on the people walking past. As the people are walking in the rain they move across the screen matching the credits of the film. As I was watching this shot, the camera for me resembeled rain, in the beginning it was overlooking the town similar to a raindrop in the clouds, and then as the camera tilted downwards the rain began to fall.
The shot that moved me the most wat when Guy was telling Genevieve that he just got his noticed to go into the army and he was hugging her and in the other hand he was holding his bike, and all of the suddune they were walking but they werent it was something that was just moving them.I couldn't see Guy move the bike and I did not see them move there feet at all. I just thought this was amazing.
The shot that stood out to me was when Genevieve was at the wedding dress store. I don't know if anyone notice that in almost every sequence there is color palette with bright and bold patterns. For this shot Genevieve was surrounded by white wedding dress. This shot captured a distinguishing feeling. This sense of Guy and Genevieve's love has become this plain white meaningless love. Their lives together has become bank like white pages in an untold written story. This leaves questions of what if this .. etc. It built this guilt in Genevieve that it's to late to turn back and re-write. I didn't notice any bright colors or flowers that could of represented a sign of hope or perhaps something will symbolized Guy will be with Genevieve in the end. I think this shot was the end of Guy and Genevieve love and the beginning to a new love.
A shot that stood out for me in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was during dinner at Geneviève's house with her mother and Roland Cassard, as an attempt to sway Geneviève romantically towards Roland. The camera is facing the dinner table from the side; Madame Emery sitting facing the camera, with Roland to the left of the frame and Geneviève to the right of the frame, facing eachother at the table.
After Geneviève is told by her mother "You must pick a king and make a wish", Geneviève says to Roland "I have no choice. You are my king". As Madame Emery then places the crown on her daughter's head, it represents the amount of influence that she has on her daughter's decision making, since Geneviève appears to have little or no choice over her own marriage.
The shot that moved me was the one right after the scene where Guy tells Genevieve that he will be going away to military service. They are walking to Guy's apartment, passing between some lanes and the camera captures their image in a dolly shot, moving along as they slide through the streets, instead of walking. This scene moved me a lot, because it allows you to get in touch with their despair and hopelessness.
The shot that moved me would be the ending, when Genevieve pulls up to the gas station. Guy starts off in a medium shot and was about to proceed into the station but then notices he has a customer. Then the camera moves into a medium shot with Genevieve and her daughter in the car in the foreground, and Guy in the background getting the gas ready. When Guy proceeds to the window of the car, he enters the shot from the left side casting a shadow over Genevieve, and at this moment Genevieve gives a very expressional glance of surprise. Then the shot reverses to Guy’s expression over the shoulder of Genevieve from inside the car. I thought this ending was predicable. However it had the right sense of surprise of having 2people’s paths cross.
The shot that moved me the most in “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” is when Guy leaves Genevieve alone at the train station. Camera starts with a tracking shot when Genevieve and Guy are walking along the strain station. The train is going to take off, Guy puts his arm on Genevieve's shoulder and he steps on the train after the farewell. The most interesing part is the carmera moves with the train and everyone else in this shot is moving excpet Genevieve stands on the platform by herself. She stands in the middle of the frame which makes her very protruding in this shot. Camera ends with an exteme long shot of the whole train station. Guy leaves Genevieve and he also leaves sorrow with Cherbourg.
I loved all the color in this movie however my favorite shot did not have much color. The one that I enjoyed the most was when Genevieve's mother (Mme Emery) is in the wedding shop looking at the wedding dresses. The camera is on a track, I believe, as it follows alongside Mme Emery but slightly behind. This gave me the impression that the whole wedding is about the mother and what she wants. She is leading the viewer, not Genevieve. Mme Emery is smiling while looking at the dresses, which is what the bride to be should be doing, but instead Genevieve is standing with a veil on her head frowning as if she is just one of the mannequins in the store. Mme Emery is using Genevieve as a doll in her own world and making Genevieve be whatever she wants.
the shot that I enjoyed the most in "the umbrellas of cherbourg" was the one near the end,a extrme long shot of Guy at gas station, light was beautifulily landed on the gas station so as the houses on the left, it was snowing and the whole picture is full of white, with the sound track it I felt released form all pressure that i had from watching this moive.
Not a shot. But an aspect of the film I found interesting was how the film's story progressed along with the seasons. The film starts out in the spring with the beginning of Roland and Genevieve relationship. The summer shows the progressing pregnancy of Genevieve and Roland’s absence. The fall brings Genevieve decision to accept Cassard's proposal. In the winter we see Roland and Genevieve’s sad reunion.
If I had to pick one shot it would be of Genevieve’s hand during the wedding. The shot shows her hand as she puts on the wedding ring. She has some difficulty putting it on, as if the ring doesn’t fit, but finally she forces the ring down her finger. To me this shot symbolized that although this marriage was not what she wanted, but she was determined to see it through.
Matthew Gilson said...
I too was impacted greatly by the shot of Guy leaving Genevieve to go fulfill his military service. The camera makes us feel like we are walking along with Guy and Genevieve. Just before the train starts to leave Guy climbs onto the step and hangs onto the rail as it pulls away from the station. The camera focuses in on Genevieve from the point of view of the train. We are leaving with Guy. The camera moves father and farther away from Genvieve keeping her the focus of the frame. I particularily liked this because it really made me connect with her in a sense that she was being torn away from Guy and was being left alone in the darkness.
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The shot that moved me would be the ending because the musical score was so moving and was in-synch with the scenes because the first scene in which Guy was with his family the music was all happy. However, when it came to the part he saw Genevieve again after 4 years, the sad musical background starts to play adding more drama to the scene. The funny thing about it too was the part the gas boy showed up, it suddenly changed the music as well to enlighten the dramatic scene.
The colors that the actors were wearing played a big part on that scene because Guy's family and Genevieve's daughter wore bright colored shirts in contrast to Genevieve and Guy, who work dark colors like black. They wore dark colors because they are the people who i think feel the most bittersweet in the movie.
There was also the part that they were walking towards the door and they were in between the car which her daughter was in. That shot is very significant because, the car was placed directly in the middle because as we all know that it was their daughter when they were lovers before.
I completely forgot to post this week; normally I do it immediately after class... (I should go back to this method) I'm not sure if this will count for marks, but I will give it a try, regardless:
Because of this week's topic in sound, I found myself drawn especially to those qualities in "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". Of course, being a musical, sound plays an important role.
Specifically, I found myself drawn to the self-reflexitivity of this film's music: at first, I was thrown off at how colloquial the dialogue was, and how the lack of syllabic attention/lack of rhymes/lack of poetry made the music less of music. (for example, when the men are clocking out after work and discusing how "film is better than opera because it is just filled with silly singing", they are merely setting everyday dialogue to a tune, rather than singing a song, per se...)
That scene set up the shot that moved me, which was also closer to the beginning:
Geneviève and her Mother are in the apartment - which is painted in surreal patterns and colours like their Umbrella shop. Madame Emery looks at herself and her pearls in the mirror lamenting about how she cannot sell her jewels. Geneviève sings: "Anyway, it's probably a fake".
Not only is Madame Emery looking into a mirror (reflections are but illusions, after all), but this scene intensifies the notion that the entire film is, first of all, set to music colloquially, second of all clad in surreal images and colours, and most of all a not-quit-real representation of "reality".
the shot that moved me, well there where 2 shots of the same setting. they both take place at the rail tracks on the pier. the first time was with Genevieve and Guy the second time was with Cassard. these two moments have a humongous set of mood and happiness, in both movements and song. yet in both instances it is about marriage. Genevieve was very happy in the first time they were sprawling down the rails, but in the second i wonder if she was led to that place or if she was leading Cassard there. And she must have been thinking of Guy while making her decision, the only thing i was thinking of was if they are there she will definitely say no, but i was surprised and then all i thought of was...poor Guy, for whenever he returns.
The shot that moved me was just after Guy finds out that Genevieve has just left, and he is walking down the street, looking at the shops. What struck me about this scene is that when Genevieve was still with Guy, the street was almost blinding with the intensity of it's colour, but afterwards, everything has become white. This was a huge change from the colours of the previous shots and really helped convey Guy's emotions.
There were a few shots that moved me in Jacques Demy's film, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". The fisrt shot was the opening shot in which we are given an ariel view of the people scattering the town. The shot begins peacfully and then a drop of rain falls from the side of the camera and a red umbrella pops open below us. The camera is at a medium distance from the action, giving us an overall idea of what is going on. This shot is very interesting in the way that we do not get to see to many people in the shot, just their umbrellas. This was interesting to me as I felt I could imagine the type of person underneath the umbrella due to the colour and style of it. This to me left a short of hidden dimension to the film. This shot also brings the spectator right into the centre of the films title.
Another shot which I found interesting was the shot in which Genevieve is reading one of Guy's letters as she stands in front of her bedroom mirror. This shot is interesting, one due to the technique Demy uses, reflection, and also the meaning that it gives. I liked this shot as it portrayed the situation in which Genevieve was in by reflecting the image of her enlarged stomach to the letter in which guy sent. The letter is obviously the response to the letter in which Genevieve told Guy about the baby.
The shot in which Genevieve and her mother are looking for a wedding dress was well done in the way that it used the overpowering colour white and the way the veil that covered Genevieve's face was used as a sort of sheild to her emotions.This shot was associated with the following scene of Genevieve and Cassard's wedding day. While existing the church, the couple are not surrounded by a lining of friends or family, only the mother in the back. This shot gives a sorrow understanding to the rest of the film and how things are no longer happy for Genevieve.
The vibrant colours along with the storyline made this film amazing. I loved how each room in a house was so bright and lively. The colours also helped to balance out the sad moments throughout the film.
The shot that moved me was at the beginning of the film, the long shot of Guy in the mechanic shop. He appears dressed in dirty clothes but heard singing and appearing in a jolly fashion. After fixing a mans car he is seen going to the outside of the Garage. This is followed by a medium shot of guy slowly approaching the outside and eventually having rain come down on him, with a man and woman running by, seen barely on screen but their umbrella in full view. He comes back into the shop to be asked by the boss to work on a mans mercedes who you later find out to be Cassard(A man who did not ruin his night but would soon ruin his life). A friend then takes the late night repair saving Guy from having to cancel his date. This shot is quite colorful and gave a fun introduction to what would be a quite tragic film.
The Umbrella's of Cherbourg was a quite interesting film with many cuts, it was very difficult to choose just one of them. The shot that moved me was the shot when the couple had gone to the apartement after they had found out he had been drafted. I enjoyed how every word said was actually sung and how most of the movie was shot using the medium viewed shots, long shots but very little close-ups. Overall the film, most due to the fact that the entire piece, being a musical, was sung. It was quite impressive.
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