did not like this one nearly as much as the young girls of rochefort. despite it being a much more emotional film it didn’t feel particularly emotive and bordered on maudlin at times

separately it’s interesting to notice the way the specter of the Algerian war of independence haunt a lot of French new wave films. in umbrellas of Cherbourg, the centering of Genevieve throughout the story and the central thesis of young love irrevocably changed with war— or of…