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Oct 13, 2018
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Jacques Demy's film, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, is pretty famous.  I suspect this is less for its structural experiment than for Catherine Deneuve.  That film restates the musical in a strangely unmusical way (perhaps suggesting that our spoken dialogue is the real music) in which every word is sung but in a plainsong kind of repetition and lack of str…

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