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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsLove theme from the 1964 film The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
Starring a very young Catherine Deneuve and with a beautiful score by Michel Legrand, this scene involves a dilemma in the love story of two young people. The boy is called up to go to war in Algeria and the lovers spend a last night together, possibly their last if he doesn't survive the bloody conflict. Unfortunately, she gets pregnant and while he's away is forced to marry another man at the insistence of her parents (abortions and unwed mothers were frowned upon in that era). The very act of love is the thing that will separate them forever, as he survives the war and returns to find her still in love with him but settled with another man.
Do you have a memorable love scene from a film, preferably with music (although not necessarily sung)?
TexasTowelie
(112,398 posts)I think that it was even spoofed on either Family Guy or South Park.
The first time that I've seen excerpts or heard the lyrics. Thanks for posting so that I can understand the context.
graham4anything
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?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>This movie, either one loves greatly, andthose that do form a very special bond.
Makes me cry just hearing the music and thinking about Christopher Reeve, who was so much more than just Superman (and not even my Superman as Superman will always be George Reeves to me).
Someday I want to go to Mackinac Island where this was filmed (and also to the Village where the Prisoner was filmed).
As a classic movie fan, having seen thousands of movies from the old days, I gotta say this is the one that gets me every single time I have watched it.
Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Bill Irwin, Teresa Wright(who basically plays the role that was later seen in Titanic, a much inferior love story to this, it is the same framing).
Richard Matheson, the sci-fi writer, wrote the screenplay AND the novel.
The book Time and Again had to have been the influence for it.
And Stephen King's book last year about the JFK shooting and time travel, in its first chapters,
took away the problem that haunted the end of this movie for the charcter of Chris Reeve.
(which had to be on purpose IMHO).
If you wish and hope hard enough, it can be.(if only).
BTW-in a very quick blink and you will miss him, William (Bill ) Macy plays the critic near the beginning, might have been his first role.
In_The_Wind
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for Christopher Reeve
WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)We cried buckets & buckets of tears. Just listening to this music anywhere else, can get me misty-eyed. :sniffle:
Still to this day I cannot understand why this movie was so universally panned by the critics!
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)This opened on the 5th anniversary of the day I met my wife (Oct. 3), and we saw it that day in Brooklyn, a few months after we got married. (the theatre is no longer there but it was one we spent so many hours in each week before we got married)
The critics of that time must not have a heart.
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)so much that I bought several versions of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini trying to find the right one. Then I got smart and just bought the soundtrack for the film. I'd love to go to Mackinac Island too.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)The movie was a hot mess, but this scene more than made up for it:
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)"Suddenly Seymour" from "Little Shop of Horrors"
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)with Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand and Tony Perkins. Skip to 6:12 to hear the loveliest part of Brahm's 3rd Symphony.
This movie makes me cry buckets!
progressoid
(49,998 posts)I'll get to see the whole thing. I've only seen parts of it.
Some day.
pink-o
(4,056 posts)I first saw this at age 7, 51 years ago. And despite the cringe-worthy cultural gaffes (a White Russian leading lady who can't sing, playing a Puerto Rican in a musical, and using a Filipino as well, figuring no one would know the dif) I'm still a sucker for these star-crossed lovers.
Even though, as one friend pointed out, it's stretching credibility a whole lot that some guy is yelling "Maria" in the streets of Spanish Harlem and only one girl answers.
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Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)also:
The Kiss - The Last Of The Mohicans - Soundtrack Trevor Jones
Gladiator theme song - Now We Are Free -
and:
James Horner - Braveheart Theme Song
tblue
(16,350 posts)My favorite. Too bad he turned ridiculous. That is my favorite film score of all time.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)It was the first time I ever saw my boyfriend cry.
LeftInTX
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