If pointless pirate spectacle is not your thing this weekend, why not spend Memorial Day with some interesting movie musicals? Genevi?ve and her mother, Madame Emery, sell umbrellas in their shop in Cherbourg, a small town in northern France.
Genevi?ve, 16, is in love with Guy, a 20-year-old mechanic who lives with and cares for his ailing godmother. Although Madame Emery doesn't approve, the young lovers continue to see each other.
But when Guy is drafted to fight in the Algerian War, Genevi?ve is left very much alone and very much pregnant.
Sounds romantic: Part of the film's charm is its ordinary plot and realistic denouement. The movie elevates everyday emotions and situations through the musical form, highlighting the drama and tragedy and romance in the human experience that we take for granted.
Poor guy can't catch a break.
As directed by Brian De Palma, the movie is nasty, bloody and romantic -- sometimes in the same scene.
I can sing you all the songs, so they're definitely catchy (or I'm definitely nerdy).
In the film, she plays Phoenix, the lovely songbird whose soul is in jeopardy after she is seduced by Swan into singing Winslow's stolen music. Harper also stars in the flawed movie musicals "Shock Treatment" and "Pennies from Heaven." One of my favorite Woody Allen movies, "Everyone Says I Love You," is a light hearted musical comedy that has the cast, none of them professional singers, breaking into song.
The plot, such as it is, follows the extended Dandridge family through a year of their lives in New York, Venice and Paris.
They both have their lives, nothing is going to happen between them, but a little dance and a little magic add up to one of the most romantic moments on film.
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