Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Germany
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- car mechanic
- letter
- normandy
- france
- musical
- single
- umbrella
- 1950s
- 1960s
- somber
- cherbourg
- france
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Catherine Deneuve
Geneviève Emery
Nino Castelnuovo
Guy Foucher
Anne Vernon
Madame Emery
Mireille Perrey
Tante Élise
- Marc Michel — Roland Cassard
- Ellen Farner — Madeleine
- Jean Champion — Aubin
- Jean-Pierre Dorat — Jean
- Harald Wolff — Monsieur Dubourg
- Pierre Caden — Bernard
- Bernard Fradet — Gas Station Apprentice
- Michel Benoist — Umbrella Buyer
- Philippe Dumat — Garage Customer in 1957
- Dorothée Blanck — Girl in Cafe
- Jane Carat — Ginny
- Directed
- Jacques Demy
- Written
- Jacques Demy
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 896 ratings
- Studio
- Parc Film, Madeleine Films, Beta Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
