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Aspects of French Culture in film “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”

Jacques Demy’s 1964 film ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’ takes place in Cherbourg, France. The film tells the story of a love affair between a teenage girl called Geneviève Emery and a young auto mechanic Guy Foucher, both of French origin. The lives of Geneviève Emery and Guy Foucher are torn apart when Guy is drafted to serve in the Algerian War.

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